Evan Rachel Wood Quotes

I want to have an impact because I don't want anybody to have to go through what I went through.

Growing up, I looked to people who had the same issues as me and were still living great lives.

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.

Like all women, I've had a pretty awful time in many ways, but it's always possible to either make a joke or find someone else.

We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.

As we've seen time and again, women and girls who are out there working, they are truly force multipliers, spreading opportunity through their families and communities - and not just by creating programs and nonprofit organizations, not just by hiring other women, but also by serving as role models themselves.

We use a term called 'empowerment through empathy.' And 'Me Too' is so powerful, because somebody had said it to me - right? - and it changed the trajectory of my healing process once I heard that.

I really just want to change the way women think about themselves. A lot of young girls are quite lost.

I'm hearing from fans about how they got out of an abusive relationship. That's why I tell people you've got to watch 'The Real.' We are about comedy and inspiration, but personal moments come up, and people are moved by it.

We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers.

As a working woman, thinking back to someone I'd want to see on TV growing up are women who can make something of themselves and their future.

I thought I'd never leave Pennsylvania. And I never imagined that I'd one day have the chance to lead the largest organization for girls and women around the world.

I've seen the effect some of my shows have had, and so I like characters that can be role models for young girls, roles that can help to change people's perspective.

The pain and the suffering that I went through made me an activist. It made me stronger; it made me more compassionate.

So to really be able to dive into what does it mean to be broken by an experience, and I developed it just through research and talking and understanding the truth of what it means to lose everything.

I think often women can feel isolated and feel like they get into a rut and don't quite know how to get out of it.

A lot of my clients say they don't deserve to mope about their sad little memories while children are starving in India. I say that just because your broken arm isn't as serious as someone else's gut wound, that doesn't mean your injury isn't excruciating or doesn't require attention. If you want to help the Indian children, or make the world a better place in any other way, you have to start by becoming whole yourself.

Compassion, however, should mean providing a mechanism to escape poverty rather than simply maintaining people in an impoverished state by supplying handouts. By doing this we give them an opportunity to elevate their personal situations, which eventually decreases our need to take care of them and empowers them to be able to exercise compassion toward others.

You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.

Recovery isn’t easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you’re willing to do. But it is worth every hard day, every tear, every terrified moment. It’s worth it, because the trade-off is this: you let go of your eating disorder, and you get back your life.

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

I know how hard it is to live your life with your wounds exposed to heal other people

If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power.

Once she'd been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior.

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.