Quotes About Empowerment

This is a book which I would recommend to anyone who is walking through the pain of abuse. A book of courage in the face of overwhelming odds; a book which will touch your heart and give you hope.

I feel that we should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings. I think that, uh, we should use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems, and stop relying on prayer and wishful thinking. If we have faith in ourselves, we won't have to have faith in gods.

in the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy. More important, ...it is never too late to find out how to do it.

What has the third estate been until now? Nothing. What should it be? Everything. What does it aim to become? Something.

There are advantages to the way I look. When no one expects anything of you they leave you alone and you can do whatever you want.

Chavez Ravine is the dawn of Chicano consciousness.

Surely someone would do something. Then I realized: what if I were that someone?

Don't ever give anyone, anything, the power, the authority, to control your life unless it's just to do so.

The more incompetent you are, the more of a prisoner you are, the more competent you are, the more free you are.

My survival is not my body, Amas-Garao. My survival is my freedom. I do what I will, because I will it.

You can be as FREE as you WANT to be - what does that look like for YOU?

One bright pansy popping through a sidewalk crack will get weeded or stepped on; it's not until twenty fabulous flowers bust through and the pavement is ruined anyway that someone decides maybe it isn't a sidewalk at all, but a flower garden. So please, for the love of gender--go bloom.

So please, for the love of gender- go bloom. Or water someone else while they do.

Remember - the fault is in the garment, certainly not the girl. There is nothing whatsoever wrong with the shape of her. Some designers cut their clothes for certain body types and others for others. Occasionally the pattern will make her ass look strangely square or the fabric will cling in an unflattering way, but Not Cut Well is always the answer, and it has the extremely delightful quality of saving your ass and being completely true at the same time. Use it wisely.

Glitter family is my long-time favourite term for this: the people who those of us pushed to society's margins (and beyond) make our cohort. Glitter is known to be shiny and unruly, easy to get and hard to be rid of. I love the drag connotations and the femme visibility of it, as well as its unmistakably queer sensibility—look only as far as glitter-bombing for proof that nothing is as thoroughly and satisfyingly queer as glitter.

When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both woman and man, left a lot of the stuff born of misogyny and heterosexism behind, and walked forward into the world without apology.

You should move toward whatever changes, whatever surgeries, whatever renovations or alterations or restorations will create you in the glory you deserve, oh yes you should. And you should do it with your usual style, and you should do it without shame, and when you're healed up and ready we can go shopping for something fabulous to showcase the many wonders of you.

And nothing's more frustrating than having feelings you didn't decide to have.

Believe something is impossible,' said his ancestor calmly, 'and you will surely fail. But believe in yourself and you can do anything.

You would have realized that it wasn't Mumtaz, a muslim, a friend of yours, but a human being you had killed. I mean, if he was a bastard, by killing him you wouldn't have killed the bastard in him; similarly, assuming that he was a Muslim, you wouldn't have killed his Muslimness, but him.

hayata kar?? b?kk?nl??? ve çaresizli?i uçup gitmi?ti. ?imdi kendine güveniyor, iradesinin hayat?na istedi?i ?ekilde istikamet verecek kudrette oldu?unu görüyor ve olgun bir insan, bir kad?n gibi dü?ünüyordu.

The free being is only that which makes itself free.

No one had ever told them they were worth saving, and they were taught to believe they were forever lost to a world of thievery, prostitution and murder. But it wasn't true. They were capable of more. She could tell from the way some of them helped each other, the way others sat down at once to begin sewing, the way Ann took aside one of the little boys and patiently showed him how to pick a pocket—

What really kept us apart for so long, what we both forgot, is that we are stronger together. Separately, we remember our weaknesses and our self-doubts and we falter.