Quotes About Empowerment

I'm a woman who's been in a man's sport since the age of 15, and to see people finally seeing what I saw right from the start, that female fighters are just as good 'pound-for-pound' as our male counterparts.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

I do not consider myself a feminist. I do not believe that by doing female-oriented films that depict a woman fighting the system, we can change the system.

When you put on clothes that are fighting against something, you can feel your courage grow. Clothing can set you free.

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

It's really fun to play a character that fights back and say what she means.

I feel so lucky that I live in a society that lets women be. I think that's the one of the biggest fights to keep having, is to fight for women to have the right to live their life the way they want to live it.

I've never been interested in dressing one woman. What's interested me was to have a philosophy. It hasn't been important to put a woman in a blue dress. I wanted to dress women who wanted to look at themselves. To stand out. To be women who were not part of the crowd. A woman who fights and advances.

A big misconception is that women shouldn't be in the UFC because we fight 'like girls,' but I think women have some of the most exciting fights.

You can have a fight card full of male fights, but yet when that women's fight comes on, that's what people watch. They're super excited by it.

They say Kejriwal fights a lot. Yes I do, but not for my wife or children. I fight for your rights. So you tell me, should I fight or not?

Saying 'black lives matter' both literally and figuratively restores people's dignity.

Get things right for disabled people and you get it right for all, for the whole of society. Not just figuratively, but in reality.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

I think people get confused: people think 'strong female characters' mean you need to play an action figure.

You have to learn to stand on your own two feet without a father figure around. You have to set an example.

I have found people don't want to be told. That they can figure it out.

We figured out as a community of gay people, we have to take care of our own.

If I'm going to take my clothes off I figured I might as well do it for something that I'm directing myself since I had complete control of the edit.

The reason why I started the clothing line Licious is because I had trouble finding clothes for my body type. I figured if I'm having trouble finding clothes for me, being curvy, I know girls with my body type are probably facing the same issue. And so with the help of my designer, I came up with the idea of creating my own clothing line.

Men know what they want when we help them figure it out. We make them think they figured it out by themselves. They really didn't. We know we did it, and that's a woman's job.

Computers used to petrify me before I figured it was just a matter of getting used to them.

There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

I'm interested in figuring out what freedom songs would sound like in 2016.