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"Education is a protective factor that helps end the cycle of poverty. It empowers the girls not just financially but also emotionally. They see more value in themselves and what they can contribute. Education is critical for changing the future for these communities and our world in general."
"An empowering mission statement has to become a living document, part of our very nature, so that the criteria we've put into it are also in us, in the way we live our lives day by day."
"Empowering women means trusting them."
"I'm aware of what I am, but I focus so much on myself as a musician and as an artist that I don't even notice that I'm the only female on a festival bill. I'm just like "oh I'm playing this festival."I haven't been very deeply involved in this greater outreach because my approach to equality is integration. I'm not into separatism, or an all-female festival. It's good and empowering but it doesn't allow for the bigger picture to get accomplished. We all need to be at the same festival - that's always been my approach."
"I've tried many different types of alarm apps, but the tried and true is the iPhone alarm. I like it because you can label your alarms. For my personal amusement, I've labeled them 3 a.m. for 'ridiculously early,' 3:30 is just 'early,' and 4 is 'slacker.'"
"One of the 12 steps is to admit that you're powerless, but I think that's bullshit. I think it's important to empower yourself by facing the stuff that triggers you."
"The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm."
"This is a long-delayed, hard-won, and badly needed victory for millions of women."
"After two decades of reconstruction work, I want to work on projects that lay at the intersection of cultural diplomacy and national identity - ones that empower local communities to define progress, not have it sanctioned by others."
"I got real important relationships in my life that are very empowering relationships."
"Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be."
"One of the most empowering things about being a self-employed actor is also one of the hardest things; I get to set my own goals."
"The Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested."
"Every experience empowers you twice: First when you enter into it with a whole heart, and again when you leave it with a whole heart."
"So I'm very happy if my words can ever inspire or empower someone who considers themselves an oppressed minority. We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love."
"It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda [Gates] and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people."
"Even the simplest tools can empower people to do great things."
"But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others."
"I've been able to find a lot of what I've not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It's empowering to find those things."
"Do not be 'against' anything. Being 'against' weakens you. Be 'for' what you want. Being 'for' empowers you."
