Quotes About Empowerment

Destiny is not what limits her.

Não é a natureza que define a mulher: esta é que se define, retomando a natureza em sua afectividade.

Une femme libre est exactement le contraire d'une femme légère

É pela convergência destes dois factores - participação na produção e libertação da escravatura da reprodução - que se explica a evolução da condição da mulher.

Si la mujer es prosaica, casera, bajamente utilitaria, se debe a que le imponen que consagre su existencia a preparar alimentos y limpiar deyecciones. No será de ahí de donde podrá extraer el sentido de la grandeza.

If woman discovers herself as the inessential and never turns into the essential, it is because she does not bring about this transformation herself.

Não se parcela a liberdade: a mulher livre sê-lo-á amiúde contra o homem. Mesmo a Bela Adormecida no bosque pode despertar com desprazer, pode não reconhecer em quem a acorda um Príncipe Encantado, pode não sorrir.

As épocas que mais amaram as mulheres (...) foram as épocas em que (...) os homens encararam as mulheres como semelhantes.

Encierran a la mujer en una cocina o un tocador y se asombran de que su horizonte esté limitado; le cortan las alas y deploran que no sepa volar.

How could women ever have had genius when all possibility of accomplishing a work of genius - or just a work - was refused them?

Women's actions have never been more than symbolic agitation; they have one only what men have been willing to concede to them; they have taken nothing; they have received.

What is beyond doubt is that until now women's possibilities have been stifled and lost to humanity, and in her and everyone's interest it is high time she be left to take her own chances.

Women's actions have never been more than symbolic agitation; they have won only what men have been willing to concede to them; they have taken nothing; they have received.

A woman on her own they think they can do anything how despicable people are when you're down they stamp on you. I kick back I keep my end up but a woman alone is spat on.

bstract gatherings such as conferences- do not use we; men say women, and women adopt this word to refer to themselves; but they do not posit themselves authentically as Subjects.

Women- except in abstract gatherings such as conferences- do not use we; men say women, and women adopt this word to refer to themselves; but they do not posit themselves authentically as Subjects.

To 'remake woman', society would have had to have already made her really man's equal.

Essere donna non è un dato naturale, ma il risultato di una storia. Non c'è un destino biologico e psicologico che definisce la donna in quanto tale. Tale destino è la conseguenza della storia della civiltà, e per ogni donna la storia della sua vita.

The day when it will be possible for the woman to love in her strength and not in her weakness, not to escape from herself but to find herself, not out of resignation but to affirm herself, love will become for her as for man the source of life and not a mortal danger.

In all my games, my day-dreams, and my plans for the future I never changed myself into a man; all my imagination was devoted to the fulfilment of my destiny as a woman.

C'est en grande partie l'angoisse d'être femme qui ronge le corps féminin.

Bien loin qu'elle se voue à l'homme parce qu'elle se sait inférieure à lui, c'est parce qu'elle lui est vouée qu'acceptant l'idée de son inferiorité elle la constitue.

During the nineteenth century, woman in her turn is freed from nature; she wins control of her body. Relieved of a great number of reproductive servitudes, she can take on the economic roles open to her, roles that would ensure her control over her own person.

C'est seulement depuis que les femmes commencent à se sentir chez elles sur cette terre qu'on a vu apparaître une Rosa Luxembourg, une Mme. Curie. Elles démontrent avec éclat que ce n'est pas l'inferiorité des femmes qui a déterminé leur insignifiance historique: c'est leur insignifiance historique qui les à vouées à l'inferiorité.