Quotes About Empowerment

The world's beauty hurt like razors, and Tally knew she'd never have to cut herself again. She carried a knife inside herself now, one that was always cutting her.

My protag likes to play with matches. Then she finds out she doesn't need the matches.' I would totally totally TBR that, Sagan said.

We don't have to look like everyone else...and act like everyone else. We've got a choice. We can grow up any way we want...It's about becoming what I want to become, not what some surgical committee thinks I should.

Their reasons don't mean anything unless I have a choice

He turned to face her again, his late-pretty composure crumbling. "But you're . . ." "Pretty? Think again." She smiled. "I'm Tally Youngblood. My mind is very ugly. And I'm taking your car.

The terror and hurt in my story happened because when I was young I thought others were the authors of my fortune or misfortune; I did not know that a person could hold up a wall made of imaginary bricks and mortar against the horrors and cruel, dark tricks of time that assail us, and be the author therefore of themselves.

they may have a harder time achieving the three pillars of self-determination—autonomy

three pillars of self-determination—autonomy, competence, and community

the three pillars of self-determination—autonomy, competence, and community—and

Here I have no master," an anonymous colonial woman was quoted by the secretary of the French legation as saying about her life with the Indians. "I am the equal of all the women in the tribe, I do what I please without anyone's saying anything about it, I work only for myself, I shall marry if I wish and be unmarried again when I wish. Is there a single woman as independent as I in your cities?

And it is the way of women. We allow each other our individuality. We do not insist that we dominate or control.

Serinity Young

Leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work.

Learning is not done to you, it is something you choose to do.

Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.

The opportunity of a lifetime is to pick yourself. Quit waiting to get picked; quit waiting for someone to give you permission; quit waiting for someone to say you are officially qualified and pick yourself. It doesn't mean you have to be an entrepreneur or a freelancer, but it does mean you stand up and say, 'I have something to say. I know how to do something. I'm doing it. If you want me to do it with you, raise your hand.

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

Leadership isn't something that people hand to you. ... [i]t's a gradual process, one where you take responsibility years before you are given authority. And that's something we can teach.

Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later.

Once you've engaged with an organization or a relationship or a community, you owe it to your team to start. To initiate. To be the one who makes something happen. To do less is to steal from them.

Real leaders don't care [about receiving credit]. If it's about your mission, about spreading the faith, about seeing something happen, not only do you not care about credit, you actually want other people to take credit...There's no record of Martin Luther King, Jr. or Gandhi whining about credit. Credit isn't the point. Change is.

Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map—these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.

It's clearly more fun to make the rules than to follow them. ~ Seth Godin