Quotes About Empowerment

Plainly 'Jane Eyre' was by a woman. It used to astound me when sensible people said otherwise.

She was alive. She was alive, and she had found her power — or it had found her. Tomorrow's problems she'd take care of tomorrow.

Women have more of that patience, as a class. That ain't because we're born with it, though. It's because we're schooled to it and taught early that if we don't have it we won't never win.

A good thing they didn't know I was traveling with a trio of warrior women. I wouldn't have stood a chance alone.

Anger is an inoculant. It gets your immune system working against bullshit.

I imagined myself taller, imagined myself angry, and pulled the subtlest glamour I could around me.

I don't need you to give me a life, you old fool. Or haven't you noticed that I've got my own?

Not trying to stare the Dragon in the eye seemed to ease her.

Kit took a deep breath, and walked into the light.

When you can sound like anything you like, why not sound like something pleasant?

That night, he kept activating the readout from his chip on the mobile's login screen: Enfranchised.

If he wants me to be a Prince, I'm not sure I can prevent it. But I'll be my own sort of Prince. I will.

Sometimes it helps to remind them you're not a drone.

I don't love you. You shouldn't change yourself for me.

I…discovered I liked my own dance. So I stayed away and they requested another retreat on, which they were legally obligated to give me. And that I decided I wasn't going back at all.

My type of woman. Damn it to the Well.

You've got a key inside you, and you don't even know it.

If she'd meant to shame him, it seemed to roll off like water from slate.

I'd had a taste of living for myself, and I could not go back to living entirely for others again.

If the petty rebellion makes you feel better, Casey, by all means, indulge yourself.

You're pretty bright when you allow yourself to be.

When you realize you've been one of the biggest barriers to your own change and you take full responsibility, you put yourself in a place of power.

realized I was living in a misery of my own making. I was living in shackles I had put on myself. I was confined by walls I had built—walls I was continuing to build, choice by choice.

I am capable of making great choices just for today.