Nadine Coyle Quotes

It matters whether women sit at the table. No one speaks up for you when you are standing outside with your nose pressed up against the glass. You cannot window-shop for power.

This is an important appointment to a community that has often felt excluded from the decision making process.

In all of our efforts, we continue to emphasize the importance of inclusivity and transparency on the part of the Afghan government and leadership, especially in linking nascent local governing institutions to the decision-making and financial resources in Kabul.

It's very difficult to be asking other people for opportunities. It is much more empowering to be creating opportunities, to be the one who is saying, 'Look, I'm going to take this from the ground up and create a story that is meaningful to me as an Asian American and cast it with Asian Americans and have Asian Americans writing it.'

I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

You need to mesh the voices of people with expertise and meritocracy.

I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up.

I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.

Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.

By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.

I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

I know one of the reasons I first started making Youtube videos was because no one looks like me.

If you're not at the table, you're on the menu.

I believe in diversity in front of and behind the camera.

My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.

I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.

At the end of the day, what I have is the power to give a louder voice to people who have issues, questions and problems.

We need leaders who will stand up for the little guy and listen once again.

The big difference between the radio show and the TV work is that I don't have to work by committee on the radio show. I'm the DJ; I can play what I want and suffer or get praised by that. With a TV show, it's much more of a collaboration, and the song that I might think is perfect may get shot down and vice versa.

In creating my YouTube videos, I don't want to speak for my audience and the people I represent; I want to amplify their voices.

I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.

Democracy can tie your hands in a rock 'n' roll band, you know? It can be a great thing, but if you've got a certain amount of vision and you write a lot of songs, it's sometimes better to have your own band and make your own decisions.

Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.