#empowered

I have women coming up to me and saying: 'I love your character! She's so empowered. She takes control; she gets what she wants.' That's another side of her. And I respect that in Joan. She says and does things that I would never allow myself to do. ↗

— Christina Hendricks

#another #character #coming #control #does

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#armed #army #camp #casual #citizens

I feel, you know, empowered because I gave life. I have a son now. I feel like I'm stronger. ↗

— Tia Mowry

#empowered #feel #gave #i #i feel

We can't afford to deny our past in a bid to be empowered. But what we can do is contextualize the past. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#bid #deny #empowered #our #past

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy. ↗

— David Brin

#democracy #empowered #knowledgeable #only #perform

The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success. ↗

— Wilhelm Keitel

#any #bound #children #duty #empowered

No economic system is perfect. But the American Free Enterprise system has empowered millions of people in the past. I know, because I saw it with my own eyes. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#because #economic #economic system #empowered #enterprise

The Spirituality and Self-Help industry wants you to be empowered enough to buy their products, but disempowered enough to still think you need them. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#products #self-help-industry #spirituality #experience

It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world. We all save it every day, and we all destroy it -- in our own small ways -- by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that choice. The next time you feel useless and impotent, remember what you are in fact doing in this very moment. And then observe your tiny, seemingly meaningless acts and choices coalesce and cascade together into a powerful positive whole. The world -- if it could -- will thank you for it. And if it does not... well, a true heroine or hero does not require it. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#act #action #actions #acts #choice

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#benefits #better #better off #children #control