Quotes About Empowerment

It has always been my opinion, you know, that princesses are confined in towers only because they choose to stay confined, and the only dragon required to keep them there was their own desire to be kept.

If you don't like my peaches, don't shake my tree.

It has always been my opinion that princesses are confined in towers only because they choose to stay confined, and the only dragon required to keep them there was their own desire to be kept.

We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

I found that no matter what unpleasantness I found myself involved with, if I stopped and asked myself, "Why have I created this? What am I learning from this?" the circumstance became not a tragedy but an enlightening experience.

I was able to fly when I believed. If you believe you can do anything, right?

But what's the good of being boss if you don't trust your workers? You may think differently. But I'm not asking you.

All you men are the same—you're not fit to fasten your wives' apron strings.

The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

As-is. Every woman needs a man who loves her as-is. He doesn't want to change anything about her." She sighed. "Oh, no greater safety in this world than that kind of love. And then life turns into the most grand and wonderful adventure.

I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.

There are three classes of human beings: men, women, and women physicians. —SIR WILLIAM OSLER

A Woman's Place is in the House Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and in the Senate.

It takes a man to make a woman feel female, Jennifer thought, to make her feel beautiful, to make her feel wanted.

I'm alive, she thought. No one is born happy. Everyone has to make his own happiness. I'm a survivor. I'm young and I'm healthy and wonderful things are going to happen.

You can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.

The woman who refuses to see her sexual organs as mere wood chips, designed to make the man's life more comfortable, is in danger of becoming a lesbian--an active, phallic woman, an intellectual virago with a fire of her own .... The lesbian body is a particularly pernicious and depraved version of the female body in general; it is susceptible to auto-eroticism, clitoral pleasure and self-actualization.

George Balanchine said, If you put a group of men on the stage, you have a group of men, but if you put a group of women on the stage you have the whole world.

Do everything you can to get men to look at you, and when they do, pretend they don't exist. Because only a slut looks back. Is that perfectly clear? Early lesson on the female condition.

I Am the Architect of My Own Destiny

What's new is the idea that it's the people with the history of greatest injustice who have the greatest right to be heard, and that the time has come for the arts not just to make room for them but to be dominated by them.

I didn't think you were wrong about any of this. I've known plenty of women who brace themselves whenever they leave the house, even a few who try to avoid leaving the house. Of course, a woman has only to wait until she's a certain age, when she becomes invisible, and—problem solved.