Quotes About Empowerment

Only now I imagine myself in the future looking back at myself as I am today. I see how smart, beautiful, and fortunate I am, and all the many options I have open to me. I bring that loving perspective into the present moment and seize all those options in the now.

We often play small, so as not to threaten other people. We don't want to intimidate them by our brightness, but the truth is, you do them and yourself a disservice by dimming what you've been given—your intelligence, your light. Those are your gifts.

AVOID DUMB PEOPLE. DO NOT TRY TO EDUCATE THEM OR TRY TO PROVE HOW SUPERIOR YOU ARE TO THEM.

THE PHRASE "PLEASE REFRAIN FROM" SHOULD BE FOREVER REPLACED WITH "BITCH, PLEASE!

Know who you are, and deliver at all times.

The bad news is that your inner saboteur never goes away. The good news is that it can be managed.

HAVING A FAT ASS IS A GOOD THING.

I love stories of people who, against all odds, triumph in an unjust world while looking fabulous and kicking serious ass.

INSTEAD OF CONSTANTLY POINTING OUT WHAT'S MISSING, CELEBRATE WHAT IS.

Inside of us all is great power, creativity, and beauty.

Why not put on your best everyday? Put your best foot forward. Even if it's just for yourself, even if it's for a trip to the grocery store.

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

Most of the reasons people think they can't do something are reasons they've created. Everything you do is up to you. Part of life is realizing that you have much more potential and ability than you'd ever know. However, it is up to you to reach inside, face the fears, and unleash that which really drives you.

It is freedom that allows ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

That man is strongest who stands alone!

Feeling down and out? Lift up your head and shout— 'It's a great day!

Eighteen, and in control of my own destiny. For that man is strongest who stands alone.

What you really want is freedom. Your own tree, your own room, your own small place in the sun.

Freedom, I was beginning to realize, is something you have to insist upon.

Many folk's troubles would be less Could they be brought to understand That oft they cause their own distress, And hold its cure in their own hand. ~ Snippet from The Faith Cure by A.G. SHIRREFF

I believe in local control of education.

As summed up in the book "Prolife Feminism", these pioneering women felt that "abortion was the product of a social system that compelled women to remain ignorant about their bodies, that enabled men to dominate them sexually without taking responsibility for the consequences, that denied women support during and after the resulting pregnancies, and that placed far more value on a child's 'legitimacy' than on his or her life and well-being.

Taking Charge of ADHD.

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.