Quotes About Empowerment

One must lose one's life to find it. Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own.

Solitude, says the moon shell. Every person, especially every woman, should be alone sometime during the year, some part of each week, and each day.

Woman can best refind herself by losing herself in some kind of creative activity of her own. Here she will be able to refind her strength, the strength she needs to look and work at the second half of the problem - the neglected pure relationship. Only a refound person can refind a personal relationship.

The American woman is still relatively free to choose the wider life. How long she will hold this enviable and precarious position no one knows. But her particular situation has a significance far above its apparent economic, national or even sex limitations.

This beautiful image is to my mind the one that women could hold before their eyes. This is an end toward which we could strive - to be the still axis within the revolving wheel of relationships, obligations and activities.

Woman must come of age by herself. She must find her true center alone.

379I believe that what a woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. What we fear is not so much that our energy may be leaking away through small outlets as that it may be going 'down the drain.

do not walk slowly simply for company—ever.

But that horror had brought out the strength in her, as it had in so many other women.

I really do not mind walking two paces behind a man, you know—if only I can find one who can walk two paces faster than I! It is being tied at the knees by convention I hate—and having to pretend I am lame to suit someone else's vanity.

Too many women waste their lives grieving because they do not have something other people tell them they should want.

Self-pity does not become you, nor does it serve any purpose

Love also means the freedom to follow your own conscience. If you can't be true to yourself, you don't have much left to give anyone else.

humiliation of the past behind her, and try again?

I do not need anyone to lead me astray! I am perfectly capable of going on my own!

one thing about responsibility Ã¢â'¬Â¦ you cannot ever take anyone else's, no matter how you love them, and no one can give you theirs. We each stand alone.

But I have learned something good about myself. I can stand up to people who have more power than I do, and fight for what I believe in.

Yes I was afraid sometimes, but not often. Mostly I was too busy. When you can do something about even the smallest part of it, the overwhelming sick horror goes. You stop seeing the whole thing and see only the tiny part you are dealing with, and the fact that you can do something calms you.

You can't fight their battles for them, only give them armor." Who

Body neutrality is experiential and not something that happens overnight ... It's one awareness at a time, one thought at a time.

My body wasn't the problem; my thoughts and beliefs were.

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on

The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child is to help others.

You are someone worth loving