Quotes About Empowerment

Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.

Other people's judgments were meaningless unless you allowed them to mean something.

I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am.

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.

Anything whole can be broken," Isabelle told her. "And anything broken can be put back together again. That is the meaning of Abracadabra. I create what I speak.

But most important of all, she explained that it was all right to say 'No. I disagree.' That was a gift. I understood it was power. The power to think my own thoughts. The power to believe in myself.

The more you feel, the stronger you are.

How wonderful to say whatever you wanted without having to go over it in your mind, again and again, to make certain it wouldn't set him off.

Rules of Magic: Do as you will, but harm no one. What you give will be returned to you threefold. Fall in love whenever you can. Meaning of Abracadabra - I create what I speak

Do what you want, do what you will, do what you have to, do what you think you cannot.

Some people grow weak when they are victimized, others grow stronger, and still others combine those two attributes to become dangerous

Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace.

They believed all books should be read, for as long as the reader liked.

a woman who could rescue herself was a woman who would never be in need.

If you tried to right all the wrongs in the world you'd exhaust yourself in under an hour.

Every woman is only one bad boyfriend or one bad choice away from the street. And she's only one good choice back to the path that will lead her home.

Men will be men, Maureen told me when I wondered aloud where my father went in the evenings. Don't complain, she advised. That's how women find their freedom. When there's no one else at home.

Do you ever get the feeling that your life isn't really your own, and you've just sort of let things happen to you?

How lucky they'd been to be raised by women who taught them what was most important in this world. Read as many books as you can. Choose courage over caution. Take time to visit libraries. Look for light in the darkness. Have faith in yourself. Know that love is what matters most.

We make our own fate," Jet said, and then all at once she realized that they did. They could not control it, but they could choose how to respond to what happened.

We make our own fate. And then all at once she realized they did. They could not control it, but they could choose how to respond to what happened.

Women were hurt every day and kept the cause to themselves.

B)eware of women who have the nerve to meet your eyes, who think they're your equals, who do as they please, who please you as well, who will never do as they're told.