Quotes About Empowerment

My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.

Be good to your girls!

But that wasn't right. Her life wasn't a story, and it didn't have to end this way. She was a girl. She was real. It was true.

My dad always says, some people will treat you badly and you can't help that. But how you handle it and how it makes you feel, that's up to you.

Being single is a great thing. Some people can't do it -- or are afraid to do it. Many people lose themselves in their relationships and forget who they are instead of learning from the other person and bettering themselves.

Men look at themselves in mirrors. Women look for themselves.

Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.

I was raised in Boston by three older brothers and a very strong and empowering single mom.

There is definitely something sexy about a girl with an attitude and a pair of leather pants.

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

When it does arrive, I begin without fear; or, at least, I have only a weak trembling, which I should soon lose, if he did not call up one of those frowns which infallibly condemn me to silence and to terror. But I know, and he knows too if he would but own it, that I do think; that I was born to think:—and I will think.

I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.

I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.

The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing more than to stand shoulder to shoulder with my men. I am nothing without them.

Each of us made it possible for the other. We got something done. Each believed in the other unsurpassingly.

Jesus did not pray because He had to; Jesus prayed because He wanted to be obedient to, united with and empowered by the Father. Prayer is to be our priority for those same reasons.

Change what you can. Accept that which you cannot change. Forgive it all.

Our compliance is our choice. No one can control someone else (unless the person being controlled allows it). No one controls you—unless you allow that control. Sure, she can put the screws to your head, but ultimately what you do within the circumstances of your life is dependent on what you allow and how much you are willing to sacrifice to have things your own way or to win approval.

You can be positive no matter who tries to bring you down. You can stop being the victim of others and start loving in spite of them.

You are responsible for the way your life turns out, not chance, not someone else.

You can't protect everyone; you can't stop all the wrong; you can't control someone else.

Objectivity in healthy relationships encourages each person to be responsible for his own choices and actions and the consequences of them.

The Foundation Blocks of Healthy Relationships 1. Respect 2. Accepting personal responsibility for one's behavior 3. Allowing others to bear the consequences of their behavior 4. Caring without enabling

Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go.