Quotes About Empowerment

We can't be free until we can tell our story, and only by telling it convincingly can we each do our bit to help the world grow up.

Maybe it's because I'm more confident of my own powers now, not so afraid of losing myself, of being molded by other people's needs of me, of being overwhelmed by them, that I can live in those strange, green days again and willingly be that girl.

Chúng ta không th? d?y b?o ai b?t c? Ä'i?u gì. Chúng ta ch? có th? giúp h? phát hi?n ra nh?ng gì còn ti?m ?n bên trong con ng??i h?.

Man kann einen Menschen nichts lehren. Man kann ihm nur helfen, es in sich selbst zu finden!

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: La verdadera libertad consiste en el dominio absoluto de sí mismo (Galileo Galilei)

You cannot teach a person anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

To overcome the emotional hardships of being ridiculed for being different, she turned difference into specialness and transformed her disability into a defining quality of her identity.

Kahlo signed several letters as 'La Malinche' and referenced her repeatedly through her imagery, thus cementing her identification with the Chingada-Malinche. In doing so she rehabilitated the most despised and misunderstood character of Mexican history and exposed the misogynist forces that maligned her and continued to oppress her daughters during Kahlo's lifetime.

I find the positive in the negative all the time. Any time you give something power, it wins, and it can continuously happen, so I just let negative people know they have no place in my life. They have no place around my children.

When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.

America wins when the voiceless have a seat at the table, when the vulnerable are protected, and when working families have the same political clout as the wealthy.

Big wins give you confidence.

Results like 8-0 wins build confidence.

Everyone kept saying, 'The terrorists didn't win. You won! We won! You survived!' That's just weird to me. Nobody wins in these situations. I don't see winners and losers in tragic events.

If you get Lonzo you know what you get. If you let him do what he does, I guarantee he wins.

When I got the script for 'Winter Soldier,' I was so excited to see that my character finally gets to punch somebody! So I took tae kwon do three times a week. I wanted to feel like I could hold my own in a roomful of superheroes.

If one little girl who looks like me picks up a winter sport because she sees me, that's all anybody could ever ask for.

Our sport is one of the few on the winter side that is so diverse. It shows we don't have to be limited by race or gender or whatever and how far we have come as a sport.

The protagonist in 'Winter's Bone' was a really good role for a female. She was strong; she didn't have to conform to something or be a sidekick to any man. That's part of what you're responding to; it's a woman-centric situation. Her value in the film was not reliant on any man.

My only challenges for winter are jackets because I have big arms.

A man could and would wipe me off the court. I really feel that the male is naturally superior to the female in all endeavors.

What ultimately makes 'The Wire' uplifting amid the heartbreak it conveys is its embodiment of a spirit that Barack Obama calls 'the audacity of hope.' It is filled with characters who should quit but don't, not only the boys themselves but teachers, cops, ex-cops, and ex-cons who lose their hearts to them.

My own efforts at peacemaking have been easy - in fact, rather enjoyable: CND marches, demos, protest meetings in Trafalgar and Grosvenor Squares, and visits to the women at Greenham, especially the glorious day in 1983 when thousands of us embraced the base and pinned beautiful pictures and objects to the ugly wire.