Quotes About Empowerment

I'm not going to have a husband anyway, said Laura. I'm going to live by myself in the garage.

Why don't women have to prove to one another that they are women?

I take back what you have stolen, and in your languages I announce I am now nameless. My true name is a growl.

Letting yourself go is an alarming notion; it is said of older women who become frowzy and fat, and of things that are sold cheap. Of course there is something to it. I am letting myself go.

and then she smiled and said that we were precious flowers, and who ever heard of a rebellious flower?

He was entitled to his own versions, his own conjurings. as I am. I may have served his ends, but he served mine as well.

It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.

He shouldn't have let himself be caged in here, walled off from freedom. But what does freedom mean any more? And who had caged him and walled him off? He'd done it himself. So many small choices.

Look—my feet don't hit the marble! Like breath or a balloon, I'm rising, I hover six inches in the air in my blazing swan-egg of light. You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim. Unless I can do that, I can do nothing. I have to recant, give up the old belief that I am powerless and and because of it nothing I can do will ever hurt anyone. A lie which was always more disastrous than the truth would have been.

It was what they both wanted: freedom from the world of mothers, the world of precautions, the world of burdens and fate and heavy female constraints upon the flesh. They wanted a life without consequences.

Moira had power now, she'd been set loose, she'd set herself loose. She was now a loose woman.

He wouldn't have much of a life out there, picking through garbage dumps and fighting off scavengers, but at least he'd be in charge of himself again.

There were so many things that could be done to it or go wrong with it, this adult female body, that I was left feeling I would be better off without it.

What people need to understand is that pussy is the Front Door of Life

My very presence as an Asian American woman talking about race and sexuality is a political statement.

The saying It's not over 'til the fat lady sings is erroneous, because women who are fat are never listened to.

the road to success is littered with mistakes, it matters more to build trust and encourage ambition than to reward obedience. At

open up the lifelines

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.