Empowered Quotes - Page 16

• I don't know. I don't like girls whining and complaining about wanting a man! I never liked "Sex and the City", the kind of thing where women only feel empowered once they find The Man. It is just not up my alley. I don't believe in it. There is nothing you can control about love.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Girl, Sex, Believe

  "Aniston was no 'Sex and the City' fan". Vogue Interview, www.today.com. November 13, 2008.

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• Young people, when informed and empowered, when they realize that what they do truly makes a difference, can indeed change the world.

  Jane Goodall

  Differences, People, Making A Difference

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• Where love is the compelling power, there is no sense of strain or conflict or bondage in doing what is right: the man or woman who is compelled by Jesus’ love and empowered by His Spirit does the will of God from the heart.

  F. F. Bruce

  Jesus, Heart, Love Is

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• I learn every day what it means to love myself, and I'm constantly figuring out what makes me feel empowered.

  Hayley Williams

  Mean, Love Myself, Feels

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• 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

  Past, Deny, Can Do

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• I want every Filipino woman empowered with information regarding all options available to her regarding family planning.

  Lea Salonga

  Want, Information, Planning

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In short, apostolic movement involves a radical community of disciples, centered on the lordship of Jesus, empowered by the Spirit, built squarely on a fivefold ministry, organized around mission where everyone (not just professionals) is considered an empowered agent, and tends to be decentralized in organizational structure.

  Alan Hirsch

  Jesus, Community, Movement

  Alan Hirsch, Tim Catchim (2012). “The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church”, p.33, John Wiley & Sons

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• I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been consequential. It has empowered me to do things my way. I found an inner truth by which I abide.

  Shari Arison

  Order, World, Way

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• Happy Monday! Don't victimize yourself and let life pass you by as you sit around and complain about problems. Be empowered and create solutions. You can!

  Tracey Edmonds

  Monday, Complaining, Problem

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• Fiction shows us the past as well as the present moment in mortal light; it is an art served by the indelibility of our memory, and one empowered by a sharp and prophetic awareness of what is ephemeral. It is by the ephemeral that our feeling is so strongly aroused for what endures.

  Eudora Welty

  Art, Memories, Writing

  Eudora Welty (2002). “On Writing”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?

  Rosie Perez

  Feelings, Magazines, I Am Woman

  "The Pressure To Take It Off". Interview with Mim Udovitch, www.nytimes.com. June 25, 2000.

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• The point is, technology has empowered so many musicians, you know?

  Stanley Clarke

  Technology, Musician, Knows

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• If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it.

  David Sobel

  Nature, Children, Earth

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• There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.

  Andrea Jung

  Community, Moral, Investment

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• I love comedy; I'm super passionate about it, and thank God it's super in right now to have female empowered comedies.

  Dreama Walker

  Thank God, Female, Passionate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A League of Their Own' had some special meaning for me, I guess - it's about women joining together and being empowered, but also about sisters sticking together even when there's drama and struggles. I'm really close to my two sisters and my brother, so I liked that about it.

  Rebel Wilson

  Brother, Drama, Struggle

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• The Obama administration deserves credit for quickly ending the housing free fall. In particular, Obama empowered the Federal Housing Administration to ensure that households could find mortgages at low interest rates even during the worst phase of the financial panic.

  Mark Zandi

  Fall, Credit, Phases

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• You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.

  Tori Amos

  Thinking, Self, Stills

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• An educated patient is empowered; thus, more likely to become healthy.

  Dean Ornish

  Healthy, Patient, Educated

  "Sharecare Builds A Web 3.0 Bridge To Better Health" by Dean Ornish, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Whether you're six or sixty, if you go on a diet and lifestyle program and feel constrained, you're likely to go off it sooner or later. Offering a spectrum of choices is much more effective; then, you feel free and empowered.

  Dean Ornish

  Offering, Choices, Six

  Dean Ornish, M.D. (2007). “The Spectrum: How to Customize a Way of Eating and Living Just Right for You and Your Family”, p.26, Ballantine Books

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• Obasanjo has openly endorsed violence as a means of governance, embraced and empowered individuals whose avowed declarations, confessions and acts are cynically contrary to the mandate that alone upholds the legitimacy and dignity of his office.

  Wole Soyinka

  Mean, Office, Violence

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• Women need to be empowered through the strongest tool - education. They don't need to be subservient to anyone, but at the same time, men must change their mindset towards women. If they are more respectful towards them, then things will change at the grassroots level. It will happen slowly, but everyone has to move together.

  Madhuri Dixit

  Moving, Men, Together

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• As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

  Steven Pinker

  Men, Numbers, Violence

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• Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

  Indra Nooyi

  Design, Innovation, Female

  "Sports: By Women and For Women" by Indra Nooyi, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 13, 2013.

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• I would like to be a part of a community of women, and help women be empowered, but I think I'm not necessarily political. I say that because I really hate politicians, so I don't fancy sitting around and thinking about them all the time.

  Rickie Lee Jones

  Hate, Thinking, Community

  "I do think we've gone a bunch of steps backwards as a culture". Interview with Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. July 02, 2011.

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