Quotes About Empowerment

Ask yourself if you are in this for the long run--if it's only your weight you want to change or if you are willing to use your eating patterns as a portal to the inner universe. And if the answer is the latter, then there is no end to what you can learn, be, understand, become.

If you try to lose weight by shaming, depriving and fearing yourself, you will end up shamed, deprived, and afraid. Kindness comes first. Always.

You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself.

Imagine what you could do ... if you stopped turning your energy against yourself and use it instead to question what you've been hypnotized into believing about the size of your body. And to speak up for matters to you and your children.

Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we don't realize they are in the past. They can't hurt us anymore.

So, what's the catch? What would we have to do to get these knives and shoes?' You explain, 'All you have to do is sit in classrooms every day for sixteen years to learn counterintuitive skills, and then work and commute fifty hours a week for forty years in tedious jobs for amoral corporations, far away from relatives and friends, without any decent child care, sense of community, political empowerment, or contact with nature.

It is also true that when a people, long kept in a boiling cauldron of oppression, suddenly find the lid removed, they spend their remaining energy battling chimerical enemies.

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you'll get nothing else.

Everybody has choices, Mother. The poorest girl alive may not be able to choose between being Queen of England or Principal of Newnham; but she can choose between rag-picking and flower-selling, according to her taste. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

Mirovên geÅŸbîn û reÅŸbîn, her du jî ji bo civakê pêwîst in. GeÅŸbîn balafirê didahêne; reÅŸbîn sîwana rizgariyê.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best take it out and teach it to dance.

The risks of liberty we must let everyone take; but the risks of ignorance and self-helplessness are another matter.

A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift to articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton...

Eliza has no use for the foolish romantic tradition that all women love to be mastered, if not actually bullied and beaten.

Hypatia:...I don't want to be good; and I don't want to be bad: I just don't want to be bothered about either good or bad: I want to be an active verb. Lord Summerhays: An active verb? Oh, I see.An active verb signifies to be, to do or to suffer. Hypatia: Just so; how clever of you! I want to be; I want to do; and I'm game to suffer if it costs that. But stick here doing nothing but being good and nice and ladylike I simply won't.

and I wont be coaxed round as if I was a baby or a puppy. If I cant have kindness, I'll have independence.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else. I wish you'd left me where you found me.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now youve made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else. I wish youd left me where you found me.

No doubt there are slavish women as well as slavish men; and women, like men, admire those that are stronger than themselves.

As pessoas estão sempre culpando as circunstâncias pelo que elas são. Eu não acredito em circunstâncias. Os indivíduos que progridem neste mundo são aqueles que se mexem e procuram as circunstâncias que querem, e, se não conseguem encontrá-las, eles as criam.

The true joy in life is to be a force of Fortune instead of a feverish, selfish little child of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

So the Gospel is not a message of condemnation as some abusive leaders would have us think but rather a message of freedom and empowerment.

church. Therefore, people will believe whatever is preached because they don't read the Word of God for themselves.

They don't want an educated populace capable of critical thought, sitting around the kitchen table realizing how badly they're getting fucked!