Quotes About Empowerment

Be Yourself Not What The World Wants You To Be

What are my thoughts on this whole ordeal?" she repeated, pausing to contemplate. And then she thought of the perfect answer. "Ali didn't manage to kill us," she said. "She only made us stronger.

Before Ali, the girls had felt like pleated, high-waisted mom jeans—awkward and noticeable for all the wrong reasons—but then Ali made them feel like the most perfect-fitting Stella McCartneys that no one could afford.

You can't go around blaming bad luck on someone else. everything that has happened to you is because you make it happen, okay?

And just like that every horrible thought receded into the background. Maybe, just maybe, she wasn't damaged goods after all. Maybe she was okay - someone worth caring for. Someone worth loving, even.

Great things were coming, and her life was going to be anything she wanted it to be, because now it was really and truly up to her.

I pride myself on making my own decisions, sir," she said. "I do not welcome gentlemen making them for me.

Today women have the rights and equality our Victorian sisters could only dream of, and with those privileges comes the responsibility of standing up and being counted.

I believe the era of the militant lady is back.

I would rather be a spinster than sold off, traded in, whatever they may call it.

What was it that marked me as a woman and was I prepared to let it go?

It occurred to me that as a man I could do anything, everything I wanted.

Women the world over suffer restrictions.

If there's one shade a woman of colour can't wear it's got to be the one everyone expects, hasn't it?

The library is a symbol of freedom.

New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information.

You have no future when the past rules you.

Oh, because you never tried To bow my will or break my pride, And nothing of the cave-man made You want to keep me half afraid, Nor ever with a conquering air You thought to draw me unaware— Take me, for I love you more Than I ever loved before.

the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.

The beauty of my body is not measured by the size of the clothes it can fit into, but by the stories that it tells. I have a belly and hips that say, "We grew a child in here," and breasts that say, "We nourished life." My hands, with bitten nails and a writer's callus, say, "We create amazing things."

Forget diamonds or dogs—a girl or boy's best friend is always a high-powered weapon.

Forget diamonds or dogs- a girls or boys best friend is always a high-powered weapon.

Develop more productivity with an increase in leadership skills.

The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is—not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.