Empowerment Quotes

Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can`t function your brain, forget your vocabulary.

(On her favorite movies to make): I try to make movies that I would want to go see rather than ones I would just want to do as an actor. I want people to have movies full of romance and hope and empowerment, something they can escape into and feel good about. I love happy endings.

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.

(Winning his party`s nomination in 2000 will be considerably easier for Gore if he can lock up the African-American vote, which accounts for as much as a quarter of the Democratic-primary total. So he is courting the party`s most loyal voters at every opportunity. At a time when there is little federal money to spread around, Gore has championed the Administration`s empowerment-zone program, which pours millions of dollars into depressed areas like inner Detroit. During the fall campaign, he visited black churches on Sundays with a rousing sermon that an aide described as) very un-Al Gore, ... The Vice President will not have any problem connecting with ethnic minorities.

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled?

If women in the developing world do not have equal rights, they will not have equal health, ... It is as simple as that; the empowerment of women is not a politically-correct cliché, but a living, essential goal for everyone.

We see transformation as an opportunity for continued growth and development in line with the Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment Act, the Employment Equity Act and the draft ICT charter.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women`s and children`s empowerment and ending racism.

I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God`s work, peacefully and harmoniously.