Quotes About Empowerment

Decide to believe in yourself. Be patient and strong, because there is no doubt you possess the ability to overcome obstacles throughout your life.

Everyone has the possibility to blossom, so don't let any bad experience leave the lasting impact on you.

Good things will happen when you decide to make your own happiness a priority.

Taking the time for yourself is already a small step towards the brighter future.

You can't get ahead without believing in yourself.

Get into the habit of asking yourself if what you are doing can be handled by someone else.

People are changed, not by coercion or intimidation, but by example.

The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.

Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.

No woman was an island. Together, we were an archipelago; together, we were a goddamn continent.

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

At times, challenges hit with the force of a roaring, rushing waterfall. The true test, however, is whether you can put your arms up and enjoy the feel of the water.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

Why should I care what other people think or me? I am who I am and that's who I wanna be.

I do what I want, when I feel like it ; now I'm not the same...

It was Friday, July 24, 1992, when I stepped on the train. Every year I think of it. I see it as my real birthday: the birth of me as a person, making decisions about my life on my own. I was not running away from Islam, or to democracy. I didn't have any big ideas then. I was just a young girl and wanted some way to be me; so I bolted into the unknown.

Most of all, I think it was the novels that saved me from submission. I was young, but the first tiny, meek beginnings of my rebellion had already clicked into place.

If feminism means anything at all, women with power should be addressing their energies to help the girls and women who suffer the pain of genital mutilation, who are at risk of being murdered because of their Western lifestyle and ideas, who must ask for permission just to leave the house, who are treated no better than serfs, branded and mutilated, traded without regard to their wishes. If you are a true feminist, these women should be your first priority.

This move is called Qworegoys, and the women of my grandmother's family taught it to their daughters just as they taught them to make thorn-bush fences to protect the hut from hyenas.

You could see her face, because she was Somali. Saudi women had no faces.

When I look at people talking about intersectionality, what I see is the human being magnifying a biological attribute, and then putting them aside, putting them in a corner as victims of oppression....I most certainly don't see myself as a victim.

I may no longer submit." It is possible to free oneself—to adapt one's faith, to examine it critically, and to think about the degree to which that faith is itself at the root of oppression.

As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.

It takes a long time to dissolve the bars of a mental cage.