Quotes About Empowerment

One cannot understand what's happening to women in the Middle East if they don't realize that the mothers are a strong, progressive force. The mothers push the daughters to get out of the harem, to get the education, to achieve what they could not even dream of.

All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

Our government has been pro-poor, progressive, and people-oriented.

'Outlander' is progressive in the way it looks at women.

The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.

Progressive bloggers should not only write on behalf of the members of America's underclass but also empower them to join the discussion.

My mother was progressive in her thinking.

If you're a progressive, you really should be a feminist because it's about equality, it's about respect, it's about making the best of the world that we have.

I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk when I was in sixth or seventh grade and being so inspired.

On 'Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce,' we have a mandate to hire as many women as possible, but particularly on a show that is about women and about progressive issues like that.

We have to continue our progressive struggle and defeat the conspiracies of dictatorship.

I'm a Palestinian-Muslim, but I'm also a progressive.

Ambition alone cannot define a progressive female character.

When women vote, Progressives can win. When women organize and bring some common sense to the conversation, it becomes more authentic.

It's not enough just to elect people of color and women of color and progressives. We need to make sure that they have a work plan and that they are - continue to align with the communities that helped get them to where they're at.

'Putting People First' was progressivism revived and at its best.

I thought as a young coach, there were times when my head coach might have prohibited me from moving forward. I always said if I am ever in that position, I'll do anything I can to make our guys move forward.

When you take a director off a project, that makes a person feel humiliated because everyone knows it. But we're responsible because we put them in that position.

I already have a pet project called Project Shakti and it aims on educating women on menstruation cycle.

I always wanted to create this community that would come and tell their own story, shoot it - and watch them. The idea is to not have one entity who creates the work, the project, and another entity who consumes it; the idea is people create their own work, like somebody cultivating his garden.

There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?

Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody comments about you, good or bad, it is 99 percent of the time their projection of how they feel about themselves.

My intention is to get more involved in social projects so I can give people a message of hope.

Being in the Girl Scouts took me out of the projects environment and showed me different things.