Quotes About Empowerment

No nation will ever respect us as long as we beg for that which we can do for ourselves. There has never been a leader of our people who went all-out to set up an economic plan for our people. I use the saying of Jesus, "All before me were thieves and robbers.

Being responsible for her own happiness, she has realized, is a lonely proposition.

Also, she doesn't want to hear anyone else's inspiring story about a sister-in-law who went through exactly the same thing and is now running ultramarathons. Celeste doesn't mean to be ungenerous in her thoughts, but she has come to the chilling conclusion that we are all alone in our bodies. Irrefutably, immutably alone. And hence, no one's story offers hope.

She is not a baton to be handed back and forth between them, nor a prize to be won. She is her own person.

Hollis was raised by Tom Shaw; she can start a fire with a pile of dry leaves and a dirty look.

Like Virginia Woolf said, every woman writer needs five hundred pounds a year and a room of one's own.

Or a T-shirt that says Cash Me Outside How Bah Dat.

I happen to believe, Chadwick, that even the biggest disasters can be cleaned up, and I'll teach you to believe it too.

she's not wrong. Men are like that. But we don't have to put up with it. Jessie, do you hear me? We do not have to put up with it.

that's why women don't turn in their abusers, she thinks. It's humiliating—and the possibility of victim-shaming is very real.

makes of herself.

Alison Krauss, Lauryn Hill, Norah Jones. She added vintage Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Carole King. She rounded it out with some edge: Fiona Apple, Courtney Love, Alanis Morissette.

Avoid the reeking herd, Shun the polluted flock, Live like that stoic bird, The eagle of the rock.

Terror is your enemy.

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

book. I understood early that I'd find what I needed in books, if not in her. She gave me that. But

A deceptively simple blues for when you need to be brought back to earth, reminded who you are. The song opened and opened and kept on opening. You could dance to it, drop down into your pelvis, let it make you funnier, funkier, smarter, skankier, snarkier, stankier. Listen to how smart this girl is! How self-aware and funny. A step ahead of everyone else.

Life is exactly as terrifying as you want it to be.

You saved yourself, gorgeous, Crisp said. You just needed a little help laughing about it.

was so proud that night, so self-possessed, standing tall, fully inhabited. I owned myself, felt fully mine to give.

Avoiding pain will get you nowhere. Avoiding pain multiplies pain exponentially.

Let even your deficits be your offering.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.