Quotes About Empowerment

Sooner or later, if they are to be healed, they must learn that the entirety of one's adult life is a series of personal choices, decisions. If they can accept this totally, then they become free people. To the extent that they do not accept this they will forever feel themselves victims.

Our choices shape our lives, and until we die we can make new ones.

In any career, whether as a surgeon, a musician, or a secretary, one needs to have a confidence that says, "I can do anything, and if I can't do it, I know how to get help.

Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.

Que as pernas também são pessoas, apenas inferiores aos braços, e valem de si mesmas, quando a cabeça não as rege por meio de idéias. As minhas chegaram ao pé do muro.

mulher feita, refeita e perfeita.

The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.

Sometimes we have to be left on our own to discover the uniqueness and strength that is ours.

Once you understand a wound it loses its power to destroy you.

I wind in and out of people's lives. Having touched them, I am blessed. Having touched me, they are blessed. Our roots are deepened. Our wings are strengthened. We have given each other grace to live more deeply.

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. (Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don't.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent

Stay angry, little Meg," Mrs Whatsit whispered. "You will need all your anger now.

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named

You are given the form, but you must write the sonnet for yourself.

It really helped ever so much because it made me mad, and when I'm mad I don't have room to be scared.

You matter. You are. Be.

And I was, as clearly as I can express something that is really unexpressible, out on the other side of fear.

She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.

The cold place within me that had frozen and constricted my heart was gone. My heart was like a lotus, and in that little space there was room enough for Osia Theola, for all of Cyprus. For all the stars in all of the galaxies. For all those bubbles which were island universes.

The more limited our language is, the more limited we are; the more limited the literature we give to our children, the more limited their capacity to respond, and therefore, in their turn, to create. The more our vocabulary is controlled, the less we will be able to think for ourselves. We do think in words, and the fewer words we know, the more restricted our thoughts. As our vocabulary expands, so does our power to think.