Quotes About Empowerment

Fat Angie may not have had a body worth promoting according to any number of fashion magazines on the market, but it was a healthier, stronger, and, quite honestly, ready-to-kick-ass-and-take-names body. With

It makes a difference, doesn't it, whether we fence ourselves in, or whether we are fenced out by the barriers of others?

Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it.

Her air and sky were theirs, not the timorous millions' who own stuffy little boxes, but never their own souls.

There was simply the sense that she had found wings, and meant to use them.

I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms

She "never exactly understood," she would say in after years, "how he managed to strengthen her. It was as if he had made her see the whole of everything at once.

Then he shouted: "India shall be a nation! No foreigners of any sort! Hindu and Moslem and Sikh and all shall be one! Hurrah! Hurrah for India! Hurrah! Hurrah!" India a nation! What an apotheosis! Last comer to the drab nineteenth-century sisterhood! Waddling in at this hour of the world to take her seat! She, whose only peer was the Holy Roman Empire, she shall rank with Guatemala and Belgium perhaps!

my job's Education. I believe in teaching people to be individuals, and to understand other individuals. It's the only thing I do believe in.

Women—I heard you say the other day—are never at ease till they tell their faults out loud.

If someone creates a Nobel Prize for Unsung Hero, my nominee will be the divorced single mother

There's no corporal punishment here, or any other form of punishment for that matter, and the children are encouraged to speak up for themselves. Unfortunately, they're not always particularly choosey about the things they say, and it can be rather alarming and embarrassing.

China puts her hand on my palm. Her fingernails are baby blue with miniature clouds airbrushed at the tips. She saved three weeks of allowance for that sky.

She recognized that this city was a place that granted you only what you were willing to claim

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.

No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others.

What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

we come to a rather strange fact. We tend to minimize the things we can do, the goals we can achieve, and yet, for an equally strange reason, we think others can do things that we cannot. I want you to know that that is not true. You do have deep reservoirs of talent and ability within you and you can have the things you want.

George Bernard Shaw said: "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw said: "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." Well,

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.