Women Born In The 1980s

"“We are thrilled to open WomHub and provide a space where women can grow their businesses and hopefully make more money,” our mission is to empower women to pursue their passions and achieve success on their own terms.”"

"I think the barrier to doing incredible things has been lowered by technology, which has started to reduce inequality."

"It’s really hard to wake up every day and fight patriarchy, which is why I am so exhausted. I honestly want to see women make loads of money so we can all just invest in other women and shift the power dynamics in business as well as in our homes and families."

"Engineers design our world and our society, and if we don’t have women at the design table, we exclude 50% of the population."

"“Don’t take life too seriously. You don’t need to figure things out right away. Figure things out along the way…“"

"Cyndi B shoots me based upon my mood. Often my stylist Jeremy and I will pick clothes based on the city I’m going to and the relationship I have with that city. My second home is New Orleans and I have an extreme love for Los Angeles, Chicago and many other cities. Cyndi has been with me for more than five years. We’ve come a long way, because we have grown with each other. We didn’t study anyone else. She studies the way that I move, things I like to do. She knows when I am in a super joyful mood or a mood that is more indicative of my song “So Gone.” That is definitely a place I have found myself multiple times with relationships."

"It’s 50 percent because it speaks for you before you say a word. You look at someone and you can almost get a vibe from them in how they carry themselves and how they’re dressed."

"It’s very round-the-way chic. I love runway, but I also love where I am from — the south side of Atlanta, Georgia. A lot of the things I wear are indicative of that urban lifestyle. I love Milano Di Rouge, Marni, Dolce & Gabbana and Christian Dior. On stage, I love to be very dramatic and over-the-top."

"I don’t slight anybody else’s plight, but it’s no joke. It’s demanding on the body, and on the mind because you are using your creativity constantly. But it also offers a sense of peace, when this is something that you truly love. People don’t realize the wear-and-tear that it can put on your body — traveling, performing and dealing with seemingly simple things like allergies that can affect performances. But it’s definitely freeing of the mind."

"“I let how I feel affect how I look. Authenticity has always been key for me and my audience. They know that I tell the truth. I talk about the good and the bad of love, relationships and life. It’s not anything contrived. I don’t let people come in and make something up. It’s really me.”"

"In Los Angeles, I might go more runway chic. That’s a place where people study fashion. A lot of [designer] brands have even had shows there. We’re definitely ripping the runway, when we’re in L.A. In New Orleans, there are thee most genuine, loving, festive, fun people that you will ever meet in your life. We dress accordingly. We have a ball. It’s important to embrace people for who they are and what they stand for in each of those different cities."

"So, I think we appreciate that our support side is a bit of a sticking plaster, in that the issue has already occurred for people and you need to then kind of try and put people back together again and get them back to resilience, empowerment and independence. We do a very small part of that on their journey but ideally we want to work to a situation where we don’t have to have safe-houses anymore."

"When we talk about support we are talking about direct services to survivors. So we run a women’s safe-house, a men’s safe-house and also a resettlement service. The safe-houses are 24/7 and once people move out of there we then help resettle them in to the community, so we work with them for a bit longer as they are living in and around the South West."

"And we’re due to open a children’s project later this year so again a safe-house for children. Then we say by influencing we realise that as an agency on our own we can’t tackle this issue so we need to collaborate with law enforcement, with government, local and national, with the EU, with local authorities, with other statutory organisations, to make sure that we come together to look at which bits agencies should be doing to stop the issue from occurring in the first place."

"The reality is a lot of people, who live here and are from here, that have been influential in creating a great space for us to work in [are fueling it]. Tyler Perry’s movie studios [located on 330 acres of historic property] changed a lot for a lot of people. He is really committed to serving the community by creating jobs and opportunities"

"Unseen is an antislavery organisation and a non-governmental organisation and our mission is to work towards a world without slavery."

"Activism has always been important to me. Growing up in a church that only holds 100 people, a big part of what we do is to give back and stay active in communities. I started the BeHuman Foundation in Atlanta to take care of families consistently, not just for a holiday. We have worked with American Cancer Society. I recorded a record [“Pink”] for breast cancer awareness with some legends like Rita Wilson and Miss Dolly Parton. BeHuman enables me to give back however I want to. The name BeHuman means loving your brother, your sister as yourself. That means being there for people in their times of need"

"What do you need? You have to ask yourself because we are in the hood this year. What can you add this year? If you need skills, go get it. But if you evaluate and your skill is enough, maybe you need to switch strategies and begin to collect influence. That’s how I got the job. I was headhunted."

"I needed to encourage black people to understand that the future of work is going to have new innovative technologies."

"I knew that I needed to focus on something that would get me out of poverty and for me, it was education. So, education was a do or die affair. I kept going, and I started seeing results."

"In the beginning, if I didn’t have a role model, I could have been demoralised, and this can cause you to have low self-esteem, make you feel like you shouldn’t talk where others are. Physics was so tough, it wasn’t an easy subject to take on, but I knew where I was going. Whatever anybody was saying didn’t really affect me. I just look at them and how they don’t really get it. It was okay. I’m happy I took that path because with physics, multiple doors opened."

"To students, you may be going through a tough season now; you can’t lose yourself right now. You have to find your way out. For me, it was 3D printing. I knew 3D printing was the future. I crossed without funding but three months later, I had funding. The new funding was not as good as the old funding. I knew if I endured that, I was going to soar, and at the end, before I graduated, a job was waiting for me. Sometimes, you need to make that call. In the beginning, it may not be good enough but with perseverance, you will come through."

"Biomedical was so new that people wanted me to cross over to mechanical, but I told them biomedical was for those who could see the future. Did I get discouraged by Africans? Absolutely, because we’re always playing safe. Africans do traditional stuff to know how it’s going to end, if so, nobody wants to go in that path. Where the world is going today, you cannot play safe."

"The technologies that will drive 30 years from now have not been created, so you cannot play safe."

"During that time in school, what went through my mind sometimes was fulfillment in the sense that, nobody gave me money; I made it myself even though my mum gave me the land. I felt it was a training on how to be independent, make your own money, manage your life yourself. At a young age, I became independent and I was proud of myself when I made money from it."

"I think the suffering brought out the zeal to ‘fight’ to excel."

""Comfort zone is your enemy. Easy is your enemy. What you believe in, if well calculated, do it and the results will follow."

""I remembered how I paid my tuition and that was the biggest motivation I needed. It fuelled my passion and fight for quality education, my fight for being the best at anything. I went back to school like it’s a war zone, like I had to ‘fight’ to scale through in life."

"I decided I was going to just register a not-for-profit organisation, get like-minded Nigerians together and we would regularly go to communities and help youths, professionals who need help and just give back to our community. So, it’s a hub of like-minded people like me who came together and said we want to give back, and raise giants who are going to be stronger than us, more powerful than us, who look like us. Because people cannot be what they cannot see, we want young people to see us so that they will know that basket ballers, musicians and so on are not the only inspirational people out there, and that was how we got them started."

"I founded the company because my passion is to get more black people into successful areas because it is possible. This is the life I want to live, one that is not selfish, the life that makes it possible for others. I’m thankful to God for it."

"“People wanted young Black people to have someone like me in their lives.”"

"“If they cannot see us, they cannot become us.""

"If you’re a leader, the community needs you beyond what you do. You’re not created to warm the bench, come, eat and close your door and say it’s you and your children. People can use your support, your skills and motivation. Do more!"

"At a very early age, I knew that I could use education as my compass to navigate wealth."

"My parents did not have education so we were relatively poor. My mum is hard working; I saw her waking every morning at 3:00 a.m, to go to Shasha market to buy what she sells. My mum sold pepper and dry grocery. She went from Shasha market to Bodija market twice a week. I call her the lioness. She just believes in working hard and not asking anybody for money. How my father supported her was very encouraging. I grew up in a home where, doing the house chores, taking care of the kids was something my father was open to doing."

"I showed them a photograph of me when I was at my most ill and they couldn't believe I’m the person in the picture. I went on that journey of nearly dying and then going on to have a child. I had my daughter, Aliyah in 2016 even though I was told I couldn’t have children. I’ve beaten the odds, basically.”"

"When it’s your own story, you live it, you breathe it and it becomes normal to you. When I speak to people I’m very open and frank about what’s happened to me, but when I see the impact it has on others, it makes me feel emotional myself. I realise how much I can help by telling my story.”"

"They said it meant a lot to them as it reminded them of their purpose and end goal. It was nice to hear that and to see their passion in terms of how they’re trying to find a better way of dialysing or finding medication that has less impact on the body.”"

"think I’m probably safe to say no. And it’s funny, whenever people kind of describe NCVO in those terms, I suddenly get this overwhelming kind of complex of Oh, my goodness, am I actually supposed to be doing this job?"

"But yeah, it’s safe to say I’ve always been really ambitious. I’ve always been really ambitious. And I heard… it’s interesting. You talk to a lot of sector CEOs."

"It’s unlikely to have escaped your notice that we are in an election year. It’s therefore more important than ever for the voluntary sector to engage with all political parties to share our vision for society and the policies needed to achieve it."

"at the end of day, it’s not a partnership between two organisations, it’s a partnership between the people who work in these organisations. So my team and your team, and you and me and our chairs, you know, all those different levels. Those relationships need to be strong and nurtured and continually, I guess, renewed and built upon."

"While we’ve made strides recently engaging with the government, and have a strong advocate in civil society minister Stuart Andrew, the fallout of over a decade of austerity cannot be solved with a roundtable, or two."

"Yeah, so my very first job in the sector was actually my very first job out of university. I worked with (…), I’m so proud to say work there. I loved that job. Worked for two amazing bosses. It makes such a difference."

"And yeah, it was really keen to pursue a career in the charity sector, but actually found it, it was it was very hard to get into."

"I started fundraising for Kidney Research UK after my transplant. It was my way of giving back because I found it really difficult emotionally and psychologically to say thank you to the donor family who had lost their loved one. I raised money at first by doing one of the charity’s Bridges Walks and then on my kidney transplant anniversary, I would do an event with family and friends at my house and raise money through that.”"

"Work life balance is fine for the owner to ignore who makes 20x my salary! Massive red flag,"

"When somebody talks to me about their work-life balance in an interview process, I'm like, 'Something is wrong with you. You haven't been able to figure that out. That's not the way you win this interview"

"Because the way we run organizations now is that no one misses dentist appointments or a doctor's appointment or a haircut or their kid's parent-teacher conference ... that's just not how we work anymore, right?"

"When you come to LA as an English girl, you find a whole new world of hair and makeup. I’ve kind of embraced that."