Quotes About Empowerment

We master our fears by embracing them, not by subduing them.

Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say "so what." That's one of my favorite things to say. —ANDY WARHOL Some

Darling, just change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don't replay the bad, scary movie.

And whenever I'd complain or was upset about something in my own life, my mother had the same advice: "Darling, just change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don't replay the bad, scary movie.

She was not willing to let others narrate her life and her death. While there is one person like her in this world, I will find myself defending both her right to struggle and our obligation to remember.

Los mejores momentos de la vida son aquellos en los cuales no sabemos qué hacer, porque solamente entonces, mi niño, descubrimos nuestra fuerza interior, nuestra verdadera vocación.

If you don't like the fairy tales you've been handed, Ariel, you don't have to conform to them. You can reauthor them. You can write your story however you choose.

Maybe I could rewrite the fairy tale of my life, transforming every blow to the head, and every cut to the cunt, and every crucified doll into some kind of an initiation.

Remember when we were witches.

Why is this the "new feminism" and not what it looks like: the old objectification?

There are some women who are probably genuinely aroused by the idea of being photographed naked. But I think we can safely assume that many more women appear in Playboy for the simple reason that they are paid to. Which is fine. But 'because I was paid to' is not the same thing as 'I'm taking control of my sexuality.

Even if you are a woman who achieves the ultimate and becomes like a man, you will still always be like a woman. And as long as womanhood is thought of as something to escape from, something less than manhood, you will be thought less of, too.

We skipped over the part where we just accept and respect that some women like to seem exhibitionistic and lickerish, and decided instead that everyone who is sexually liberated ought to be imitating strippers and porn stars.

Women of my generation were given the lavish gift of our own agency by feminism—a belief that we could decide for ourselves how we would live, what would become of us.

These are not stories about girls getting what they want sexually, they are stories about girls gaining acclaim socially, for which their sexuality is a tool.

Creative Visualization

I had to learn that I knew nothing. I also had to learn that it was okay to think for myself and that my happiness, my true salvation, was not dependent on the approval of others. --Gregory Michael Brewer

I'll break your chains; so sing, Takuto. As loud and as much as you want. You don't have to hold back anything.

Live the life you want.

entirely up to us. I find it amazing that we're all

A slave is but half a man.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty

If women are by barbarians reduced to the level of slaves, it is because barbarians themselves have never yet risen to the rank of men.

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.