Quotes About Empowerment

Pain is something to master, not to wallow in.

You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.

Our talks are wonderful, interplays, not duels but swift illuminations of one another. I can make his tentative thoughts click. He enlarges mine. I fire him. He makes me flow. There is always movement between us. And he is grasping. He takes hold of me like a prey.

the cape held within its folds something of what she imagined was a quality possessed exclusively by man: some dash, some audacity, some swagger of freedom denied to woman

I walk into the fire always, and come out more alive.

I do not need to be a selfless child, or a woman giving to the point of self-annihilation.

No woman has ever granted me all the privileges I need—and you, why you sing out so blithely, so boldly, with a laugh even—yes, you invite me to go ahead, be myself, venture anything. I adore you for that. That is where you are truly regal, a woman extraordinary.

I don't understand. I have so much courage, fire, energy, for so many things, yet I get so hurt, so wounded by small things.

I want to make the feminine scar. Helen of Troy was, after all, unfecundable. She was one of the rigid ones, like [Virginia] Woolf and [Rebecca] West.

Touched bottom again. Decided to liberate myself... We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

Motherhood is a vocation like any other. It should be freely chosen, not imposed upon woman.

When man imposes his will on woman she knows how to give him the pleasure of assuming his power is greater and his will becomes her pleasure; but when the woman accomplishes this, the man never gives her a feeling of any pleasure, only of guilt for having spoken first and reversed the roles.

I have no fear of your femaleness.

And now to work. Maybe you need a woman behind you, as I need a man behind me. I said a man! Mars the warrior, with fire in his nostrils. Anaïs

You must not get trapped in humanity and its struggles. You must keep alive your contact with all things, your relationships to all kinds of people. When you are too much invaded by others' discords, when you are driven by scruples or guilt to retrogress in order to help others live, and when they try to crystallize you in one role, you lose your ability to maintain and sustain the flow, you arrest the turning of the bigger wheels, you get caught in the spokes.

One goes to the magician, as one goes to the analyst, or any quack—to reaffirm one's own secret volitions. Not to be cured, not to be warned, not to be saved, but to become what one wants to be.

You are much much greater on women. Céline is arid.

He says: "You seem to have finished just suffering life and are beginning to dominate it." Just suffering life is not enough. I know.

When I saw you . . . I chose my body.

Health is your most treasured gift. As long as you have it, you are independent, master of yourself.

From the time we were little, you treated us as if our ideas mattered.

Treating feminism like it's a personal accessory that just isn't appropriate anymore obscures the places where feminism hasn't made strides for people who still need it.

Equality makes way for an increased number of free, considered choices, and an increased number of people with access to them. But choice itself isn't the same as equality...

Empowertising not only builds on the idea that any choice is a feminist choice if a self-labeled feminist deems it so, but takes it a little bit further to suggest that being female is in itself something that deserves celebration.