Quotes About Empowerment

On the wall of Amshad's office there was a poster that made me laugh: DO NOT GIVE ME A BANGLE, GIVE ME A PEN. Well-meaning charities often train illiterate slum women to make cheap trinkets.

It turned out that many women dropped out of Dr. Felitti's weight loss program because losing weight made them feel unbearably anxious and vulnerable. Their girth helped them to feel safe, beyond a man's desire to assault them. So, even though they knew that their obesity put them at risk for disease, they did not want to give up the protection they felt it afforded them.

Forgiveness is not turning the other cheek. Forgiveness is not running away. Forgiveness does not mean that you condone what the person has done, nor does it mean that you invite them to do it again. It doesn't mean that you forget the offense, nor does it mean that by forgiving you tacitly invite bad things to happen again. It doesn't mean that you won't defend yourself.

Look, you've got a generation of people coming along who are going to form their own new relationship with the idea of supporting the causes that they care about or changing the world. And these people are not going to do it the way our parents do it.

was learning to work things out for myself, not limited by prompting from teachers, parents, or the school curriculum. I relished the power of pure thought combined with the logic and predictability of science. I loved visualizing an idea, and then making it happen.

Even more valuable, I learned at an early age to teach myself.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

But where, in all she taught her son, was it about thou shall own no one, havin been owned once your own self. Don't go back to Egypt after God done took you outa there.

Without all that young stuff, Stamford, you will die a slave. And it will not be a pretty die.

So I say to you: Beste children, if varken het kan, why not you? I say: Blijf in jezelf believen. I say: The world will giggle misschien, but I say: Just follow the varkentje, let the world your kontje maar zien.

What would happen if you let go? You'd have everything you want. But you're afraid. You're afraid if you let go there will be nothing there to catch you and you'll lose control. Yet, you never really had control.

Personally, I can do very little, but I can contribute to a whole chain of events, and that's a marvelous feeling. It's like a bonus to me towards the end of my life. It gives me a voice." (Audrey Hepburn)

I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles.

She told me about a group of people in Guinea who carry the sky on their heads. They are the people of Creation. Strong, tall, and mighty people who can bear anything. Their Maker, she said, gives them the sky to carry because they are strong. These people do not know who they are, but if you see a lot of trouble in your life, it is because you were chosen to carry part of the sky on your head.

There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?" My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips. Now," she said, "you will know how to answer.

women, brave as stars at dawn

Life was neither something you defended by hiding nor surrendered calmly on other people's terms, but something you lived bravely, out in the open, and that if you had to lose it, you should lose it on your own terms.

No one will love you more than you love your pain.

A conscientious slave is a thousand times greater than a conscienceless free person.

A state or person that depends on others factually stays deprived of actual freedom.

After jumping out of your ego, you liberate your own, and you see the way towards the values of others.

An angel and evil live within you; your thoughts and actions feed to let, allow, and empower them to play the role. It depends on you, which one you choose and please.

Be within your skin for the protection of yourself from the awkward attacks and repercussions.

Coming out from Yourself is a glorious victory of victories and enlightening knowledge.