Quotes About Empowerment

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That's the beginning of wisdom.

Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.

Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.

I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.

It's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. And it's very bad for a woman not to be afraid of something ... always have something to fear - even as you save something to love ... and don't think you can lay down the load, ever. Because you can't.

Why, why, her mind stuttered, I believe women could manage everything in the world without men's help--except having babies, and God knows, no woman in her right mind would have babies if she could help it.

A startling thought this, that a woman could handle business matters as well or better than a man, a revolutionary thought to Scarlett who had been reared in the tradition that men were omniscient and women none too bright.

I'm tired of everlastingly being unnatural and never doing anything I want to do. I'm tired of acting like I don't eat more than a bird, and walking when I want to run and saying I feel faint after a waltz, when I could dance for two days and never get tired. I'm tired of saying, 'How wonderful you are!' to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.

I believe woman could manage everything in the world without men's help–except birthing babies...

a woman not to be afraid of something.

Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen

Why, why, her mind stuttered, I believe women could manage everything in the world without men's help--except having babies, and God knows, no woman in her right mind would have babies if she could help it.

How closely women crutch the very chains that bind them!

She was permitting herself the luxury she had often dreamed-of doing exactly what she pleased and telling people who didn't like it to go to hell. To her had come that pleasant intoxication peculiar to those whose lives are a deliberate slap in the fact of organized society-the gambler, the confidence man, the polite adventuress, all those who succeed by their wits.

I wouldn't have grudged him your body. I know how little bodies mean—especially women's bodies.

While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology.

By learning to create technology girls learn to speak up...

The key idea of agile is that teams essentially manage themselves. ... It works in software, and it turns out that it works with kids.

I didn't view my body as broken, I reasoned that a human being can never be broken. Technology is broken. Technology is inadequate.

What was true then and what is true now is that we create technology so others can create more technology.

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.

Technology being the way it is, and record sales being the way it is, there are not too many things that you need to depend on a label for that you can't go out and do yourself.

Our quest for a Digital India is all encompassing. It is going to touch your lives in several ways, making it easier.