Quotes About Empowerment

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.

The most valuable thing [Anton LaVey] did that day was to help me understand and come to terms with the deadness, hardness and apathy I was feeling about myself and the world around me, explaining that it was all necessary, a middle step in an evolution from an innocent child to an intelligent, powerful being capable of making a mark on the world.

Haters call me bitch, call me faggot, call me whitey, but I am something you could never be

My weaknesses had become my strengths, my ugliness had become beauty, my apathy to the world had become a desire to save it.

I'm not a slave to a God that doesn't exist, and I'm not a slave to a world that doesn't give a shit.

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that's important—you know

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

She thought, If I'm crazy, I may as well do what I feel like doing. No point being crazy if you have to worry all the time about what people are thinking anyway.

I'd rather drop dead doing for myself than add a day to my life by acting helpless.

If we educate them well, we give them the means to create a future that we cannot anticipate. If we cheat them, they will have the relatively meager future we have prepared for them.

Above all, love must be freely given, by mutual consent on both sides, through the exercise of free will. Because it is thus freely chosen, it is an act of humanity and civilisation, neither a daemonic possession such as hurled Dido upon her funeral pyre or Medea upon her children, not the base stirrings of concupiscence.

you can't let other men impose their will on you or life's not worth living.

Other people veto their existence. I don't let anyone do that.

Don't be afraid Mr. Onaka, we need you because none of us drives. Can you imagine anything as dumb as that? They were going to make a revolution and they didn't even know how to drive a car.

Nunca te dejes pisotear por nadie, hijo. Este consejo es la única herencia que vas a tener.

Bagaimana bisa penulis-penulis ini menjadikan sastra sebagai takdir, sebagai militansi, di tengah mayoritas orang yang tidak bisa membaca atau tidak mampu membeli buku, atau minoritas yang bisa, tetapi tidak suka membaca?

How does it feel to say no to the one man to whom you have always said yes? How does it feel when you stand up to him and reject all he has never questioned?

There was quantum mechanics, string theory, and then there was the most mind-bending frontier of the natural world, women .

You want the girl next door? Go next door!