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Quotes About Empowerment

Women were created to be like flowers, providing color and beauty to the world. We leave troubling matters to men.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Be the hero of your own life. Don't let somebody else play that role. (Vasu)
~ Margaret Weis
Don't change color to match the walls. Look like you belong and the walls will change color to match you.
~ Margaret Weis
The people must acquire faith in themselves before they are ready to believe in anything beyond themselves.
~ Margaret Weis
Be the hero of your own life. Don't let someone else play that role." "Be the hero of my own life," Alfred repeated softly.
~ Margaret Weis
Don't be afraid anymore. Not of anyone. Not of anything. Nothing. Ever again. Listen to me: not ever again.
~ Marguerite Duras
Ce manquement des femmes à elles-mêmes par elles-mêmes opéré m'apparaissait toujours comme une erreur.
~ Marguerite Duras
Erkek dayanamaz ac?ya, hemen al?p baÅŸka birine okutur; ac?y? ba??ndan atmas? gerekir, atadan kalma, beylik d??avurma yollar?ndan, savaÅŸa, vahÅŸete ve ç??l?klara, aç?l?p saç?lan bir söyleme gelip dayanan gayet tan?d?k yollardan, onu silkeleyip atmas? gerekir.
~ Marguerite Duras
Each day, following her walk, she must have felt all the more reassured: if she willed it, people scarcely saw her, she was almost invisible. She thought that she had been cast into a mold, the identity of which was extremely vague and to which a variety of names might be given, an identity whose visibility she could control.
~ Marguerite Duras
Ma propre vie ne me préoccupait plus : je pouvais de nouveau penser au reste des hommes.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
One of my best days was the one on which I persuaded a group of seamen from the Archipelago to join in a single corporation in order to deal directly with retailers in the towns. I have never felt myself more usefully employed as a ruler.
~ Marguerite Yourcenar
I'd so rather be a living snack than dead meat.
~ Mari Mancusi
Anger, intelligence, and wit are ultimately more seductive than zero percent body fat.
~ Maria Raha
Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.
~ Marian Keyes
No more humiliation for me, thanks very much. No more swallowing my anger. Honestly, I couldn't manage another mouthful. But it was delicious. Did you make it yourself?
~ Marian Keyes
Todays uplifting phrase is love your body exactly as it is. Yout think it is imperfect and you're right, but its only goning to get worse.
~ Marian Keyes
Nkechi never tried to hide her bottom. She was proud of it. Fascinating to me. Irish girls' lives were a constant quest for bottom-disguising or bottom-reducing clothing tactics. We can learn much from other cultures.
~ Marian Keyes
I wake with a thought: This is my life. I've only got one. I should live it the way I want
~ Marian Keyes
But I thought that if people behaved like victims they would become victims, if people expected the worst to happen then it invariably did. I could see now how wrong I was. Sometimes people don't volunteer to be victims and they become victims anyway.
~ Marian Keyes
No one can make us feel any way unless we let them.
~ Marian Keyes
Instead of thinking, "Why me?" I think, "Why not me?"' Extract from One Blink at a Time In
~ Marian Keyes
Not everyone likes an "ambitious" woman. When it's said about a man it's always in a good way. But a woman? Not so much.
~ Marian Keyes
Here's the deal: in a perfect world, sanitary protection would be freely available to all.
~ Marian Keyes
Parents have become so convinced educators know what is best for children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.
~ Marian Wright Edeleman