Quotes About Empowerment

At the time I also considered myself a lowly, abject woman. I was afraid, as I said, that it was precisely my female nature that kept me from bringing the pen as close as possible to the pain I wanted to express. For a woman who has something to say, does it really tkae a miracle — I said to myself — to dissolve the margins within which nature has enclosed her and shower herself in her own words to the world?

A universidade não liberta as mulheres, mas aperfeiçoa sua repressão.

Uma comunidade que acha natural sufocar com o cuidado dos filhos e da casa tantas energias intelectuais femininas é inimiga de si mesma e não se dá conta.

Although I felt I was changed, I had remained the disciplined person who had never avoided anything. And besides, I said to myself, what can she do to me? I'm a woman, not a child. At most she'll bring something good to eat.

Ich bin, was ich bin, und ich kann nichts anderes tun als mich akzeptieren; ich bin so geboren, in dieser Stadt, mit diesem Dialekt, ohne Geld; ich werde geben, was ich geben kann, werde mir nehmen, was ich nehmen kann, werde ertragen, was ertragen werden muss.

Quem te ensinou a ler e a escrever, Cerullo?» Cerullo, pequena, de cabelos e olhos escuros e de bata, com um laço cor de rosa ao pescoço e apenas seis anos de vida, respondeu: «Eu.»

Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

Los problemas de los jóvenes sólo pueden resolverse por la vía de la educación, jamás por la fuerza, la violencia o la corrupción. Ésa ha sido mi norma constante de acción y el objeto de mi entrega total, en tiempo y energías, durante el desempeño de la rectoría. El rector, Ing. Javier Barros Sierra, texto de su renuncia a la H. Junta de Gobierno de la UNAM, el 23 de septiembre de 1968.

I am adding the next chapters to my manual of disobedience.

Al diablo las limitaciones sociales! Pensar que no somos capaces es una miseria mental.

Submission to something you didn't preach yourself is no good, I quote. Because Man must burst his ridiculous bonds, which consist of what is supposedly current reality with a prospect of a future reality of scarcely any greater value.

Indem die Frau nicht mehr gefällt, tut sie den ersten Schritt zu ihrer Freiwerdung. Ein Tritt gegen die Basis einer Pyramide aus stiller Gewalt...

I want to sharpen my pride on what strengthens me, my witness on what haunts me. Whatever we name ourselves, however we end up shattering our self-hatred, shame, silence, and isolation, the goal is the same: to end our daily material oppression.

No one have the right to choose who you will be.

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

Remember, you have the best heart and mind, and whatever you do is right. Bye-bye, my sweet. Don't forget the food group.

the phrase "stay-at-home mom" is patronizing and faintly derogatory, like "stick-in-the-mud mom" or "sit-in-the-corner mom." Do we talk about a "chained-to-the-desk mom" or a "stuck-in-traffic mom" or a "languishing-in-meetings mom"?

Millions of women rose up, said G. K. Chesterton, to declare that they would no longer be dictated to, and promptly became stenographers. Why

An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.

Labels are for cans, not people.

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.

Let fear be a counselor and not a jailer.

Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.