Quotes About Empowerment

That means that over 90 percent of our health and longevity is in our own hands.

Never be frightened! Be fearless! There is no room for fear. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is adharma and fear is disloyalty. All delusions emanate from this evil called fear.

To live a feminist life is to make everything into something that is questionable. The question of how to live a feminist life is alive as a question as well as being a life question.

Rolling eyes = feminist pedagogy.

Queer and feminist worlds are built through the effort to support those who are not supported because of who they are, what they want, what they do.

Let's take the figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. One feminist project could be to give the killjoy back her voice. Whilst hearing feminists as killjoys might be a form of dismissal, there is an agency that this dismissal rather ironically reveals. We can respond to the accusation with a "yes.

To be a feminist at work is or should be about how we challenge ordinary and everyday sexism, including academic sexism. This is not optional: it is what makes feminism feminist. A feminist project is to find ways in which women can exist in relation to women; how women can be in relation to each other. It is a project because we are not there yet.

I think of feminism as poetry; we hear histories in words; we reassemble histories by putting them into words.

I'm just like so many women - I was frustrated, I had these white pants that I had spent a lot of money on, and you get home and you think, 'What am I really supposed to wear under this?' So it was a frustrated consumer moment.

Over time she had come to understand that her fear prevented nothing, achieved nothing useful.

the day came for every woman when she must choose one kind of life or another or let someone else make the choice for her.

Some women had that strength hidden inside them, a light that flared to life when everyone else was overwhelmed.

But a true friendship between women is the strongest bond of all.

Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, overly educated and excessively rational, knowing right from wrong and fancy from fact, woke in a nest of marten and fox pelts to the sight of an eagle circling overhead, and saw at once that it could not be far to Paradise.

Little girls are kept away from the things that would make them strong, in the name of protection and propriety.

And I knew it was her, the one I thought I'd never find. A strong woman, a smart, beautiful, uncompromising woman, and sure of her place in the world.

Young people today (finally, I'm old enough to use that cliché) seem to have no real conception of how bad things were for women and, more important, could be again.

There's no need to whisper," Elizabeth told her now. "You could sing at the top of your voices and no one would hear you out here on the water." But the women smiled at her suggestion in surprise and unease, as if she had told them that they could fly.

Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger

I could hear her [Vic's Italian mother] saying, "Yes, Vic, you are pretty -- but pretty is no good. Any girl can be pretty -- but to take care of yourself you must have brains. And you must have a job, a profession. You must work.

Because you're right. Bad stuff happens. But the real world is also all the things we do about the bad stuff. We're the real world, too.

You just don't let the fear paralyze you. You think about what options you have, not about the worst thing that could happen.

prohibido prohibir' y de 'siempre sonríe y la fuerza estará contigo'".

Whatever baggage you have, use it. Conquer it. Don't let it stop you.