Quotes About Empowerment

Dance gives me a lot of confidence and helps me overcome all my insecurities in personal and professional life.

I'd like to professionally... continue my education and hopefully become an attorney. I think that's the best way to stop the miscarriage of justice that happened to me from happening to somebody else. I don't think it should ever happen to anyone ever again - not one person.

Ultimately, the ability to inspire people to live healthier and happier lives is what excites me both personally and professionally.

As her mother, I am always there, but Alia knows what she wants both professionally and personally.

I made a decision a few years back to never again do anything professionally that I didn't want to do.

Young professionals shouldn't have to let a fear of failure hold them back; they should feel emboldened to take on challenges in creative ways.

Authority doesn't have to be concentrated in me when I'm hiring outstanding professionals who know their jobs. I will be there if there's something that's not following what I want. But I also know that day to day, they're the ones that have to be accountable.

I'm glad to take on the role of a domestic because many of your black leaders, your educators, your professionals came from domestic parents who made sacrifices to see that their children didn't go through what they did.

And I'm the kind of manager that doesn't believe that you micro-manage professionals. They should understand their responsibility and carry out those responsibility.

I want to see as many black professionals as possible.

We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy.

It's hard for people who come from traditional homes to take women seriously. I do it myself. We're just not used to seeing women professionals. Women have to go out of their way to prove themselves.

I attended the Women's March on Washington with a group of artists, curators, and art-world professionals.

If you deliver professionals something that makes them feel stronger, then they will follow.

We do have very intelligent actresses in our country. They're all very capable, smart and are managing their professions very well.

Many women are the lower-earning partner in a married couple, thanks in part to forces that relegate women to less remunerative professions and pay them less for the same work.

I started modeling when I was - not older, but not 12. I have a mom who's a feminist - she's an English professor, an intellectual. She really gave me the equipment to understand that you can celebrate yourself without putting yourself down or needing to apologize for the way you look. I think that attitude is really crucial for a model.

Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.

My mother ended up getting a Ph.D. of her own, in chemistry, and eventually became a tenured professor.

In the barbershop, there's democracy. You're a professor; you're an engineer; you're a garbage man, have at it. You got something to say, get down with it.

The best thing about having a lady professor on campus is that it tells women students that they can do it, too.

When I became a professor of physics circa 1991, I doubled the number of female professors of physics in the U.K.

Some of the perceptions from my professors were that I was less than or that I wouldn't be able to compete or wouldn't be able to meet the same bar as my peers. I don't want that for my daughter or for any of the girls who come into our program.

People are full of great advice... Professors, parents, friends mean well... But in the end, the person driving this thing called life is you. Listen to you. Spend time being alone. Learn your worth. Dream. And never forget where you came from.