Quotes About Empowerment

Never bring them down to the level of my pains.

make grief a weapon!

He was reminded of what he liked about Irene so much; that she had not written her war away, she claimed it as her own again and again--near the chichra tree in Five Queen's Road and along the cobbled sidewalk opposite a canal in Maastricht and who knows how many more times in the privacy of her own thoughts.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

Don't forget to love yourself.

Woman is the conscience of man.

A choice that is not used is worse than nothing; it is a snare in which a person has trapped himself as a slave who did not become free

Circumstances do not create the quality of your life.

I grew up with two sisters, no brothers. There was Ronny who produced "Happy Days" for me and my sister Penny who acts, directs - she does everything. So they were very strong women in my life.

Take full responsibility for your life, move forward in the direction of your dreams

I endeavor to trigger positive, empowering, life-giving emotion - I believe art is that powerful.

I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived.

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

We want more people owning things in this country. Let me put it to you bluntly: In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life.

It is the government's strong desire to empower this fabric, this social fabric of our society where faith-based programs large and small feel empowered, encouraged, and welcomed into changing lives.

It's the biggest economic influence in a woman's life whether she can decide when and whether to have children or not.

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.

Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.

Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school and that's very clear.