Quotes About Empowerment

kill the Big Monster first. You unravel the brainwashing and see alcohol for what it really is: an addictive poison that controls and debilitates those who take it. Then the Little Monster is easy to deal with. In fact, you can enjoy the process, confident in the knowledge that you're destroying a mortal enemy.

I was in control of every area of my life except for smoking. The cigarette was deciding where I could go, what I could do, when I could do it and with whom.

Taking a pill is passive. In contrast, psychotherapy puts the patient in charge by instilling new coping skills and attitudes toward life.

Freedom does that to people, he realizes. Once you've tasted it, ou never want to let go.

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

Most little girls in England grow up wanting to marry a prince. Bex grew up wanting to kick James Bond's butt and assume his double-0 ranking.

you're the gallagher girl. figure it out.- zach

The most underused tool in the kitchen is the brain. I blame the food media (yes, that of which I am a part) who have lulled us into a state of recipe slavery. We don't think about recipes as much as we perform them.

selfless Scoutmasters gave us their time not because they knew what we'd become, but because they knew what we could become.

If you don't think I'm a princess then you're 100% right, I'm the fucking queen.

Part of thinking for oneself is learning to recognize obstacles when they present themselves, and understanding that one must confront those obstacles, not merely ignore them in the mistaken hope that they will disappear.

Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency. The removal of substantial unfreedoms, it is argued here, is constitutive of development.

History is part of our birthright. We must claim it back and make it transform our lives

As we run, we become.

It is a cruel thing to do, to cage such a beautiful, passionate animal as if it was only a dumb beast, but humans do so all too often. They even cage themselves, though their bars are made of society, not of steel.

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

There's no match for the sweetness independence brings.

I learned about women -- how we are made into the women we've become, how we shape ourselves, how we shape each other.

Worry less about what the gods might do and more about what you can, that's my advice.

Solo se puede conquistar los miedos afrontándolos. Si los rehúyes, te conquistan ellos a ti.»

Seems giving little men big men's shoes doesn't make 'em big. Just makes 'em trip over.

She narrowed her eyes. "You lost the collar I gave you." It chafed. And I wasn't born to be a slave.

You'll never hold up someone who can't swim for themselves. In the end, they'll drag you down with them.