Quotes About Empowerment

I mean to defend the rights of individuals in a liberal prospect.

The women's movement and the result that I get to benefit from and my generation gets to benefit from is that we might be doing housework, but we might not be. And we get to choose, and we get to negotiate and work that out with our prospective husbands or with our husbands.

We are building a country where a person's prospects are determined by their own initiative and hard work and not by the color of their skin, place of birth, gender, language, or income of their parents.

We can seize this time and do it our way and in the process be proud of ourselves and prosper as well.

We can be a free and independent country and will prosper if given a proper chance.

We are a free and independent country and will prosper if given a proper chance.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

We have to invest in people if we're going to have a country where every person can participate in our economy and share in our prosperity, and we have to break down the many barriers that stand in their way.

Often people ask me what my job is, and I say, honestly, it is to make others successful, and the more you do that, the more you will see that you create prosperity.

When roads are built, children can read, then jobs and prosperity will follow.

Canada knows that for a society to be prosperous and more just and more peaceful, women and girls must be educated.

I have two prosthetic legs. This is my life; what am I going to do with it? And it's put me on this amazing journey. I can look back and be completely grateful and say I would never want to change anything.

Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.

I know I am not the first woman to ask this, but how can I be both damaged and loveable? How do I become the protagonist of a story?

I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories.

It's not just about casting female protagonists. It's gotta be across the board throughout the industry.

Out of 10 projects I get sent, seven or eight are female protagonists, and that's not the only thing I'm interested in.

Women need to tell their stories from their experiences, and that may not mean that it would be all stories with women as protagonists.

Why should I limit myself or drive myself towards a woman-centric film. Sometimes, the most interesting role is not that of the protagonist.

When my daughter was born, I was reading a lot of children's books, and there weren't any characters who looked like her. For all the content that's out there, there aren't many African-American protagonists. I looked at it like, if there isn't someone else creating it then I have to do it myself.

The idea behind 'Gloria' was to take a secondary character - the aunt, the mother - and stay with her as she becomes our protagonist.

I don't understand why people still behave as though making movies with female protagonists is risky, given that - hello - we do make up over 50 percent of the population, and we go to movies.

It feels great to be given a protagonist role.

You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.