Quotes About Empowerment

Sally had returned to school for her degree in library science at Simmons University, and now, at the age of forty-four, she was the director of the Owens Library.

To hell with them," Fanny remarked. Had her sister learned nothing at the Starling School? Other people's judgments were meaningless unless you allowed them to mean something.

once a girl walked into a library she could never be controlled again.

I'd thrown my fate away once, and I would never again allow other people's opinions rule my life. As a girl I'd done what was necessary, but I was a girl no longer.

I was not pleased to be sent from my mother, but I occupied myself, a skill learned by children who must sometimes act older than their age.

Sara had told me that a woman who could rescue herself was a woman who would never be in need.

This cannot harm you on this day. When you walk, you walk away. When you return, all your enemies will burn.

out from under the far side of the table

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.

Elizabeth is suddenly reminded that she can walk down that road anytime she wants to. There are better things to be afraid of than a country road bordered with scrub pine and oaks.

She would have to do away with herself in order to have a life of her own.

Is that what love is? To lose yourself completely? Or does love make you more than you could ever be alone?

In books, no one helped a girl who didn't help herself and every fairy tale ended with the same lessons. Trick your enemy, do what you must, believe in enchantments, save yourself.

You make love what you want it to be, Hannah had told her. You decide. You walk toward it, or you walk away.

She knows now that when you don't lose yourself in the bargain, you find you have double the love you started with, and that's one recipe that can't be tampered with.

Sometimes walking away is the bravest thing you can do. When you get there, you'll know where you are.

This is how he'll hurt you, this is the way you will blame yourself, this is your salvation, this is what you can see if you open your eyes.

In every fairy tale the girl who is saved is the one who rescues herself.

You can tell just by looking at her that she never backed down or valued anyone's opinion above her own. She always believed that experience was not simply the best teacher, it was the only one

When you chain something up, you turn him into something he shouldn't be.

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.

If a woman doesn't write her own history, there are very few who will.

Reading is never wasted time

A woman who acts as if she knows what she's doing gets what she wants.