Quotes About Empowerment

The Unix philosophy basically involves giving you just enough rope to hang yourself. And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure.

Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk.

Women belong in the house... and the Senate.

Success comes in cans, not cant's.

One man, one vote.

A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle.

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.

Sexism is a social disease.

Teaching creates all other professions.

I wondered why somebody didn't do something. Then I realized, I am somebody.

Put on your big girl panties and deal with it.

Curling... when you can tell your lady that she is wide without fear of getting whacked upside the head with a cast iron pan. Or proclaim out loud that she is too heavy, knowing that your comment has been heard by countless bystanders. Where you can order your better half to sweep, sweep hard, and having the never before seen result of actually seeing her gutting it out just to please you! For in curling, you are the king of the house!

I trade sweat for strength. I trade doubt for belief. I trade cheerleading for nothing.

Black power… is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to begin to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations and to support those organizations. It is a call to reject the racist institutions and values of this society.

Strength and honor are her clothing.

Put your future in good hands — your own.

Teachers who inspire realize there will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how we use them.

How can I control my life when I can't control my hair?

As with the maid, so with her mistress.

Don't go out of your weigh to please anyone but yourself.

I Deborah arose… I arose a mother in Israel.

I'd rather be stitchin' than in the kitchen!

Jimmie crack corn and I don't care,Old Massa's gone away.