Quotes About Empowerment

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.

The best part of my new job was finally running my own show and no longer having to answer to people like [Chris Kimsington].

You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don't believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.

I always play women I would date.

I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.

and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back

Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!

i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

Early suffragists saw the vote as key to all women's personal as well as political autonomy. But a hundred years of women's suffrage has shown that gaining the right to vote or run for office will not be enough as long as we're threatened with emotional, physical, economic or sexual abuse af work, at school or in our own homes.

Role models matter.

once you stop worrying what the world will think of you, your life will become that much easier to live.

Le donne sono forti. Le donne possono fare tutto, bene quanto gli uomini. Le donne possono fare molto di più. Ma una donna deve cercare dentro di sé quel filone di forza. Non si manifesta naturalmente da solo.

If you allow someone to treat you badly, then the love can't get through.

person better and stronger, if they only take hold of what they're dealt and make the most of it. Or they can let it overtake them and destroy them. I've grown

For the first time in her life she was proud of her size, proud of her strength, even proud of her oddly boyish face. She could see interest, even admiration in the faces of many of the girls.

Beth had taught Laura to look within herself, and what she found was a revelation.

Wear them, they will make you brave.

she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.

Pain is fear, and I'm not afraid.

If you didn't have a choice, you have to make a choice. If you didn't have options, you made some. You couldn't just let the world happen to you.

You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn't decide exactly what to feel.

She existed in her friends; there she was. All the parts of herself she'd forgotten. She knew herself best when she was with them.

To honor the Pants and the Sisterhood And this moment and this summer and the rest of our lives Together and apart.