Quotes About Empowerment

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

I am the woman who glows in the dark, I'll stay awake forever if I have to.

I was not the woman who breaks into pieces under the blows of abandonment and absence, who goes mad, who dies. Only a few fragments had splintered off, for the rest I was well. I was whole, whole I would remain. To those who hurt me, I react giving back in kind. I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

I said to myself every day: I am what I am and I have to accept myself; I was born like this, in this city, with this dialect, without money; I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.

That even if we're constantly tempted to lower our guard -- out of love, or weariness, or sympathy, or kindness-- we women shouldn't do it. We can lose from one moment to the next everything that we have achieved.

El mundo está prodigiosamente cambiado y les pertenece cada vez más a ellas, cada vez menos a mí [...] lo que cuenta son estas muchachas tan competentes que no se han encontrado ni una de las dificultades con las que yo he tenido que vérmelas. Tienen unos modales, unas voces, unas exigencias, unas pretensiones, una conciencia de sí mismas que yo ni siquiera hoy me atrevo a permitirme.

Quale sarebbe il crimine?». «Lo sperpero di intelligenza. Una comunità che trova naturale soffocare con la cura dei figli e della casa tante energie intellettuali di donne, è nemica di se stessa e non se ne accorge».

I would attach those of my revenge. I was not the woman who breaks into pieces under the blows of abandonment and absence, who goes mad, who dies. Only a few fragments had splintered off, for the rest I was well. I was whole, whole I would remain. To those who hurt me, I react giving back in kind. I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

I doubt that work ennobles man and I am absolutely certain that it does not ennoble woman.

Tu sei la mia amica geniale, devi diventare la più brava di tutti, maschi e femmine.

scoprii in pubblico quanto avessi imparato assistendo a quello sforzo doloroso di scavo. Parlai di come avessi cercato da sempre, per impormi, di essere maschio nell'intelligenza – io mi sono sentita inventata dai maschi, colonizzata dalla loro immaginazione, esordivo tutte le sere

Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present. And begin with the scum in your area, put their backs to the wall.

Falei de como tinha tentado desde sempre, a fim de me impor, ser um homem na inteligência - percebi-me inventada pelos homens, colonizada por sua imaginação

both had always known instinctively that the limbs of a man are not nourished when he fills the belly of another, and that those who would make you believe it should sooner or later get what they deserve.

Segno che forse Lila aveva ragione: la gente di quella risma bisognava combatterla conquistandosi una vita superiore, di quelle che loro non potevano nemmeno immaginare.

Really, go ahead." "No.

Finally she said something that I would never have had the courage to utter: "Look, Marcello tried in every possible way to buy me but no one is going to buy me.

Should I restrain this shadow—my mother, all our female ancestors—or should I let her go?

Si a la mujer la sabes educar, bien. Si no la sabes educar, déjala correr, que te hará daño.

He's gone, you're still here. You'll no longer enjoy the gleam of his eyes, of his words, but so what? Organize your defenses, preserve your wholeness, don't let yourself break like an ornament, you're not a knickknack, no woman is a knickknack.