Quotes About Empowerment

A nation is not conquered, Until the hearts of it's women Are on the ground. then it is done, no matter How brave it's warriors, Or how strong it's weapons.

Using our hands to think about a problem, such as cleaning, mending, cooking, knitting or gardening, where the end goal is meaningful, is like taking a mental health vitamin, Lambert concludes. Any useful task that engages your hands gives you a sense of control over your environment and is, ultimately, very empowering. Craftwork brings exactly the same brain rewards.

More than once in the orphanage, I'd been asked if I wanted to look different. Truth is, I never did. I knew who I was when I looked into the mirror, my mother's daughter.

My husband's death changed my nature. I feel it impossible to be silent and tolerant anymore. It is impossible to be always a slave.

1. Big Bad Ben by Rosemary Wells 2/2/22 read on my own

The harsh world unjustly reserved its most severe punishments for women.

I like difficult old women, she said. I'm in training to be one myself.

As the psychologist Carl Jung put it: 'I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become';

She walked as she owned the world, or had owned it once and lost it but remembered how it felt.

She held her shoulders straighter, and her breasts were bold.

Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.

If your child isn't following through, it's probably not because she won't but because she can't.

Many parents, in their eagerness to solve the problem, forget the Invitation step. This means that just as they are at the precipice of actually collaborating on a solution, they impose a solution. Too often we assume that the only person capable of coming up with a good solution to a problem is the adult.

'Every human being has a bit of gangsta him'

Being a mother is about protecting your children from every conceivable thing that might cause them hurt, but it's also about trusting them to live the best way for them, the best way they can; and trusting that even when you are not there to hold their hand, they can succeed.

That's the way I want you to live your life, Caitlin. The way you want to, not the way that circumstances dictate.

It's about the feeling you get: the road beneath the soles of your feet, the smell in the air. It makes you feel strong, somehow, invincible.

Head up, chin up, shoulders back, remember the worrior queen

Head up, chin up, shoulders back, remember the warrior queen

Having had nothing, I will not settle for crumbs.

For the WriterChicks…a brain trust without equal, a circle of friends who never let go, and women I love with my whole heart.

When you're scared of something, you need to face it, even experience it, regularly. Then it loses all its power over you.

You know what I taught you about fears." He closed almost all the space between their mouths, still holding her gaze. "You face them, you live them, you beat them. Fear of losing control will be gone.

Venceréis Al Dios Del Miedo... Sólo Entonces Seréis Libres"- Profecía de Urayoán