Quotes About Empowerment

Empowerment wasn't defined as a static concept or standalone occurrence, but as an evolving way to rethink entire power structures and value systems, draw on shared skills and knowledge, and endow marginalized communities with tools for economic sustainability.

Freedom of thought is the only good that is perhaps more precious than peace, for the simple reason that, without it, peace would merely be another name of servitude.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

Aren't you strong enough to walk alone? We must each of us find God by ourselves.

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

To know how to free oneself is nothing, the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom. (pp13 - The immoralist)

Even if it's not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.

No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.

Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps.

Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life.

Women, it is said, have a bad attitude toward sex. Women, it not said often enough, have a long-lived resentment against forced-sex and a longing for freedom.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge.

Women intend to save themselves when sacrificing some women, but only the freedom of all women protects any woman.

sexual freedom is when women do the things men think are sexy; the more women do these things, the more sexually free they are.

The intelligence of women is not out in the world, acting on its own behalf; it is kept small, inside the home, acting on behalf of another. This is true even when the woman works outside the home, because she is segregated into women's work, and her intelligence does not have the same importance as the lay of her ass.

Women are objects, commodities, some deemed more expensive than others. But it is only by asserting one's humanness every time, in all situations, that one becomes someone as opposed to something. That, after all is the core of our struggle.

I love the literature that these men created; but I will not live my life as if they are real and I am not. Nor will I tolerate the continuing assumption that they know more about women than we know about ourselves.

I am one of those serious women.

I hope for nothing; I fear nothing; I am free.

It was the pornographers, not feminists, who punished women in the public square, as puritans had, for being sexual.

RIDDLE: Q: Why haven't women made great works of art? A: Because they are great works of art.

Sitting with Ricki [Abrams], talking with Ricki, I made a vow to her: that I would use everything I knew, including from prostitution, to make the women`s movement stronger and better; that I`d give my life to the movement and for the movement. I promised to honour-bound to the well-being of women, to do anything necessary for that well-being. I promised to live and to die if need be for women. I made that vow some thirty years ago, and I have not betrayed it yet.

What I've learned is that women suffer from terrible shame and the shame comes from having been complicit in abuse because one wants to live.