Quotes About Empowerment

I would rather impress you with my storytelling than with the size of my waist and my hips.

I think high waist styles are leg lengthening and just keep everything tucked in that you'd like to be tucked in.

I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.

I have a fuller figure and sometimes like to hide my legs. Palazzo pants accentuate my small waist and make me feel a little like Katharine Hepburn.

Most women say 'Please speak to me from the waist up: my brain, my eyes.'

I'd dress like RuPaul if I was prime minister. I'd have a lace front, waist cincher. I'd have padding on my hips. I'd be ruling the country in style.

We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.

I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.

Being a female athlete, sometimes your clothes don't fit right if you have a small waist and broad shoulders, or strong hips. And it's OK to embrace that.

I love my little bum and my waist.

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.

We don't want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.

I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn't be in politics, now are saying, 'Oh, wait, I don't need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I'll run, too.'

Africa should not just wait to be exploited or influenced. No. We should be part of the conversation. We should raise ourselves to a level where there are certain terms we dictate in the conversation because we have a lot to offer.

Don't sit around and wait for the opportunities to come. You have to get up and make those opportunities come.

How does a queen bee behave? However she wants to. But please don't wait for someone to hold the door open for you when your own arms work perfectly fine - do it yourself.

There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring.

You shouldn't wait for other people to make special things happen. You have to create your own memories.

I can't wait to be seen as a woman. But I know I probably have to contribute to that with behaviour.

Someone taught me this really lovely thing, which is when you're panicking or thinking, 'I can't do this, I can't do this,' you just say, 'Right. Hi, negative thoughts. Stop bothering me. If you just wait there, I'm going to do this job, then I'll come back and talk to you later.'

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

I believe women and minorities often wait for permission to be invited to something; we need to stop doing that.

Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.