Quotes About Empowerment

He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and to her God. He has endeavored in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.

The canon and civil law; church and state; priests and legislators; all political parties and religious denominations have alike taught that woman was made after man, of man, and for man, an inferior being, subject to man. Creeds, codes, Scriptures and statutes, are all based on this idea. The fashions, forms, ceremonies and customs of society, church ordinances and discipline all grow out of this idea.

The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body; for giving her the most enlarged freedom of thought and action; a complete emancipation from all forms of bondage, of custom, dependence, superstition; from all the crippling influences of fear—is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life.

How the little courtesies of life on the surface of society, deemed so important from man towards woman, fade into utter insignificance in view of the deeper tragedies in which she must play her part alone, where no human aid is possible.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The women were active, the men passive, and that made Richenza smile as she absorbed wisdom in that moment. Her grandmother had often been told she did not know her place, but truly she did.

Within her the core of rebellion hardened. She would dress as she chose, because clothes and appearance were part of a woman's armor in this world

What did it matter if no one cared, as long as she did herself? Relying on others was a dangerous way to live, and frequently a waste of time

Bien sea que estudies a Dale Carnegie o a Napoleon Hill o a otros oradores más modernos, como Stephen Covey, en ellos encontrarás fórmulas para triunfar.

Mantra de transfiguración «En el nombre de Dios, decreto en nombre de [di el nombre de la persona o descríbela si no lo sabes]». A continuación, recita este mantra con la autoridad de la Palabra de Dios dentro de ti: yo soy quien transforma todas mis prendas, cambiando las viejas por el nuevo día; con el sol radiante del entendimiento por todo el camino yo soy el que brilla. yo

Non sono più la ragazza di un tempo. Non lo sono più. Sono più forte senza di lui. Sono più forte perché mi ha spezzato il cuore. E non gli permetterò di farlo ancora

So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless

I've outgrown my childhood name, and I haven't found a new one yet." "Ah," she cried. "Then it will be my pleasure to name you for myself. I can tell you are a colleen after my own heart, more like to me than my own daughter Findbhair. So I bestow on you the brave name of Maeve until such a time as another name shall claim you.

If you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless.

What we hope to achieve is a society that doesn't value a white man because he's a white man, but also doesn't value a woman because she's a woman, or a black because he's a black.

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

Any time while I was a slave, if one minute's freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told that I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it just to stand one minute on God's earth a free woman.

An ordinary woman who makes herself available to an extraordinary God can do amazing things for God.

God's Word is the ultimate beauty treatment for every woman.

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings.

You're wishin' too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.

I think I deserve something beautiful.

Operation Self-Esteem--Day Fucking One.