Quotes About Empowerment

but accepting help doesn"t have to mean giving up control.

Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was that I was glad. Macy page 199

How ballsy it was to just assume you know, with one glance, the things another person could live without. As if it was the same for everyone, that simple.

It's all about you, Colie. She touched one finger to her temple, tap tap tap. Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine. There is something infectious about confidence. And for that one moment, with my eyebrows burning and my eyes watering, I believed. And good hair never hurt either.

If life is a journey, wouldn't you rather be the person behind the wheel than the one just being carried along?

The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself.

This isn't about him. It's about you. You shouldn't do anything you're not ready for.

accepting help doesn't have to mean giving up control

That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened—good, bad, or anywhere in between—it was always, if nothing else, all your own.

I didn't care that they snickered when I answered yes, or spoke in hushed tones. Because now, I didn't care what they thought. It wasn't new, this realization that I would never be like them. What was different now was that I was glad.

My own life felt flat and sad too much of the time; it was reassuring, somehow, to lose myself in someone else's

It was a feeling I'd woken up with one morning, a kind of whirring in my ears and an instability to the world, like things were coming to a head. I faced myself in the bathroom mirror and looked into my eyes, wondering if I would see something new in them, something crackling and different. I felt strong, as if every muscle in my body was taut and lean, not creaky and bony anymore.

She was dressing for the life she wanted, not the one she had.

Say each cue word clearly, in a strong but nonthreatening voice.

You are not made of metaphors, Not apologies, not excuses.

It does not matter how long we have been kept in cages. It does not matter how strong your gravity is. We were always meant to fly.

If he leaves you with a car alarm heart, you learn to sing along.

Let the statues crumble. You have always been the place.

Some men would want to hold you like the answer. You are not the answer.

You are a woman. Skin and bones. Veins and nerves. Hair and sweat. You are not made of metaphors. Not apologies. Not excuses.

Little intimidates a man more than a learned woman.

I like to be in charge of my destiny.

Hearing-impaired people can totally play instruments," said Marigold.

I am not here to entertain straight people.