Quotes About Empowerment

Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience of freedom.

Writing is my therapy.

I'm just thankful that I continue to do therapy because it makes the world a better place.

I really like 'I See You.' It was therapeutic to write and singing it is really like therapy.

Loose Women' is fantastic. It's great working with a group of strong, feisty females, who are also your mates. It's like therapy.

I love therapy. I talk about it a lot because I feel like, especially among black people, it's stigmatized.

If I'm feeling down or depressed, working up a sweat will make me feel like I can really do this - that, in fact, I can do anything. It's like a therapy for me.

My work is often a therapy for myself - a working out of these issues as a black woman. And a way of allowing other black women to work through this kind of stigmatization as they look through the images and feel how distorted or contorted they might be in the public eye.

If you are not happy with something, you should change it. So I went to a lot of therapy, and finally, I am able to speak up for myself: You are going to hear me roar!

The show has become my therapy.

Art became my therapy. It's an amazing outlet.

In 1973, I broke off from the therapy and decided I could go through one of those episodes on my own, in my house. I found there is no real need to be locked up. I found that I was able to use that kind of awake dreaming that you go into during insanity and look at it and live with it and relate to it and become friends with it.

Since I began my practice of Forgiveness Therapy, it's now instinctual for me to choose to eat like I love myself - instead of eating like I wanted to punish myself. Plus I've not only lost weight, I've lost the anger and anxiety I was feeling, and so I feel happier and calmer within.

I definitely don't need therapy in life because I have gone through every little corner of my life.

With 'Location' and all the other songs around it, my music turned into therapy for others. And that's something I really love and am blown away by.

I feel like music is sort of therapy for myself.

I've been in therapy since I was five, but music goes way, way, way, way, way beyond therapy.

There is no shame in therapy, no shame in seeking help.

I can, therefore I am.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.

As I said, I spent most of my adult life thinking I didn't have a vote, and therefore that what I thought didn't matter.

I am a woman, therefore I am a problem solver.

Gender injustice is a social impairment and therefore has to be corrected in social attitudes and behaviour.

I grew up hearing that if it hadn't been for Ataturk, my grandmother would have been 'a covered person' who would have been reliant on a man for her livelihood. Instead, she went to boarding school, wrote a thesis on Balzac, and became a teacher.