Quotes About Empowerment

Feminism has always been a theme that I'm very interested in.

Everyone needs a theme song! It should make you feel like a million dollars.

Women alone have to be smart, strong and durable. We don't bruise easy. And we can't waste time and energy feeling sorry for ourselves. We might want to collapse, but we don't. Probably no one would pick us up!" "You,

Sean briefly wondered if in an earlier life he had pissed off a bunch of tough old goddesses; he was surrounded by strong, opinionated women.

You don't need approval and you don't need an excuse or explanation for living your own life. Remember that." Oh,

Annie and I were talking about doing trail rides for groups of girls—nothing gives a young girl a sense of power like taming a beast, like proving she's capable of doing it on her own, without a parent's guiding hand.

push him to rely on himself. It's essential for every child, but more so for Noah. He'll need the confidence going forward if he's to overcome his limitations." "I know.

In life you are either a passenger or a pilot, it's your choice. —Author Unknown

What am I to do?" "Oh, you'll know what to do. Don't be hasty, sweetheart. But don't wait too long. There will be a moment of clarity, my little darling, and it will come to you that it's time to take care of yourself. You don't have to give up your dreams, Shelby. Never take scraps. Never.

No one can live your life but you, Maggie. But if you find a way to use your talents to help people I think you'll be happier.

It took a lot to straighten your back like that, hold your head up, be the strength and not the victim.

You will never be happy, married or single, as long as you cling to this fantasy that some man will rescue you and make you safe and secure. Make yourself safe and secure. It's the only way you'll really feel that way. It's the only way you can really protect your children. In the end you will see that no matter who you're married to, you are responsible for your own happiness or security, two things no one can give you.

I'm not going to solve your problems. You are. I'm just here to direct the traffic.

You know how there are people in your life that change everything?" she asked. "The kind of friend without whom you can't make a paradigm leap into a new realm, into unchartered territory and new possibilities? The kind of friend who you're always your very best self with?

Mothers shouldn't be telling children over thirty how to live.

I had learnt to use my fears as stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks

Before that moment, I had always supposed that loneliness was my enemy. I had seemed not to exist without people around me. But now I understood that I had always been a loner, and that this condition was a gift rather than something to be feared. Alone, in my castle, I could see more clearly what loneliness was.

She didn't add the elements that allowed me to proceed down a different path. She lent a spark, perhaps, or tendered the flame, but the arson was mine.

Because the truth is always hard. Because being queer is hard, and coming out is hard, and it never stops being hard. The world keeps shoving into you. But you stand tall anyway. You take up space anyway.

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The fact is, all education is directed to some end, and if parents don't make conscious decisions on what that end is, they are simply abdicating their role in setting the direction" of their children's lives.

I'm not denying that what you're going through is real. What I'm saying is that you need to decide what you believe about memories. They aren't who you are. They aren't who you have to be. Even if things like this keep happening, and they likely will, you have to decide how much you will internalize them.

The undeniable fact is that free-market, technology-driven capitalism, for all its benefits, tends to pull families and communities apart by empowering individuals and encouraging—even mandating—individualism.

if you wait around for the church, or someone else, to get something going, it may never happen. What are you waiting for? It's