Quotes About Empowerment

Fear is only good when you have a choice in things.

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

Fear was once again breaking the shell around me so that something else could spring to life.

I love you," said the Voice. "Now, get up. Leave this place. You must. Get up. Start walking. This rain is not too cold for you. You are too strong for this rain and too strong for this sorrow. Come on, do as I tell you.…" And I had.

Remember, Rose, whatever you've suffered, no matter how bad it's been, you can use that, use that to be a stronger person.

And we shall see for the first time since man lifted the club to strike down his brother, the world that woman would make and what woman have to teach men, and only when men can be taught will they be allowed to run free among woman again

And we shall see for the first time since man lifted the club to strike down his brother, the world that women would make and what women have to teach men. And only when men can be taught, will they be allowed to run free among women again!

The only power that exists is inside ourselves…

Use the power inside you. Don't abhor it anymore. Use that power! And when they see you in the streets above, use that power to make your face a mask and think as you gaze on them as on anyone: beware.

No creo en nada y eso me hace más fuerte de lo que piensas

And I saw that if I were to maximize every experience available to me, I must exert my own powers over my learning.

I had become a magician for them, aiding them to realize accomplishments of which they hadn't even dreamt.

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game," she said. "Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on." "You mean strive to be perfect," he said.

I will give you a little hint," Emma said with a wry smile. "A whore's trick, but a good one. It's a part that you're playing, like a grand actress on the stage. It isn't you. It has nothing to do with you. You're simply using your body in service to something necessary. You can smile and flirt and dance and pretend you're someone entirely different, and it won't matter. You, the real you, will still be safe inside.

Her grandmother laughed. "Oh, hon," she said, "it's never wise to look over your shoulder." "Huh?" "Just run the race on your own, I say. Don't fret about the others." This didn't make sense, for a moment, but then it did. Candle felt as if she'd had some burden lifted from her, and she gave Mercy a grateful smile and Mercy smiled back.

Sometimes Willa felt she'd spent half her life apologizing for some man's behavior. More than half her life, actually. First Derek and then Peter, forever charging ahead while Willa trailed behind picking up the pieces and excusing and explaining.

However different the two might be in other ways, they both had this notion that reading up on something, getting equipped for something, would put them in control.

Sometimes Willa felt she'd spent half her life apologizing for some man's behavior. More than half her life

If she was easily swayed, she thought, at least she had chosen who would sway her. If she was locked in a pattern, at least she had chosen what that pattern would be. She felt strong and free and definite.

I am a grown woman-- mostly-- and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose.

Having chosen this foolishness, I was a free being. How could the world ever stop me, how could I betray myself, if I was not afraid?

Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me

That girl in the painting looks so fierce, so strong. I want her to be the truth of me.

She would find her answers in the words she wrote, in the stories she told, not by asking for permission.