Quotes About Empowerment

Perempuan adalah makhluk yang indah. Dia memiliki kemampuan yang kuat [dan] menakjubkan.

Well, you know, I was raised by a 1970s feminist. My mom had a consciousness-raising group. I used to sit at the top of the stairs and listen to them.

You have a fullness you need to bring out. It's not an emptiness you need to cover up with things.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.

In the final analysis we are all our own teachers and our own pupils and that is as it should be.

The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others.

It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.

Ä°nsanlar kendi kaderlerine yüzüstü b?rak?ld?ktan, çoÄŸunluk mutsuz, tesadüflerin elinde oyuncak yap?ld?ktan sonra, onlara "özgürce rekabet ederek geliÅŸebilirsiniz!" demek, sömürenlerin, ezilen insanlara oynad??? bir oyundur.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you

It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved.

They're here, they're queer, get hip to them. ~ B. Ruby Rich

Por qué esperar al Salvador? Sálvate tú mismo, hermano, y entonces tu salvador habrá llegado.

She knows now that she can do almost anything she wants to—as long as she starts small.

she doesn't go into a shame spiral anymore.

strengthen others in all my interactions.

Growth and decay is always in one's own hands. [It is an obvious statement. Nobody can ensure any body's growth if that person is destroying oneself. And if one is determined to grow nobody can cause that person's destruction.]

Without education, confidence does not come.

Do not think of yourself as a small, compressed, suffering thing. Think of yourself as graceful and expanding, no matter how unlikely it may seem at the time.

Only that in you which is me can hear what I'm saying.

Those who were molested or beaten as children or teenagers might later be vulnerable to sexual abuse or violence, because their natural impulses to protect themselves and protest (physical and verbal) were extinguished. Expectation of hurtful treatment by others or one's own failed capabilities can stubbornly persist despite overwhelming evidence that such is no longer the case.

When it comes to girls, you make your own invitations.