Quotes About Empowerment

The successful leader may be the person who recognizes that we all have talents and who thus sees her or his main job as encouraging mindfulness in those being led.

Wouldn't it be more advantageous to recognize that when placebos work we are the ones controlling our health, to learn how to exercise it directly, and to see ourselves as efficacious when we do?

The future belongs to us, because we have taken charge of it. We have the commitment, we have the resourcefulness, and we have the strength of our people to share the dream across Africa of clean water for all.

I told Pop I wanted to be a scientist when I grew up, but he said scientists were men, and I'd just get married.

Maybe someone would write a play just for me, one where a real woman could fight with her sword, and had many fine adventures and changes of costume.

I wonder if you men have any idea of how insulting it is to women when you assume that all we can offer is our bodies?

It was his way of gaining some control when life got stormy. He couldn't will the rain clouds from the horizon, but he could control how he would react to them.

Usually, girls weren't encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college.

As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?

when people come up with new ideas, they have to have confidence in themselve to say " i can do it

It's ok, it's alright, nothing's wrong tell Mr. man with impossible plans to just leave me alone in the place where I make no mistakes in the place where I have what it takes

He shared that, from the day of Pentecost until now, no child of God has ever fully realized the power that has been put within us.

Your job as a parent is not to make your child's way smooth, but rather to help her develop inner resources so she can cope.

In brief, it states that parents are responsible for the what, when, and where of feeding, and children are responsible for the how much and whether of eating. At the time, it was revolutionary to insist that children know how much they needed to eat and that all children, even "too thin" or "too fat" children, must be allowed to eat as little or as much as they want.

The goal of any discipline is freedom. If the result is not greater freedom, something is wrong. (Chapter 1)

Rage is a useful emotion. Rage burns away sorrow and disgrace.

I decided that since my curves aren't going to disappear due to gorging on lettuce, I might as well flaunt them. If men like the bovine appeal, as you said, they're certainly going to get it.

For a moment, she remembered the pain of being called ugly, and then it melted away like soap washing down a drain. She had told herself a hundred times that she could be humiliated only if she allowed it: now she needed to believe it.

If you open this one, I want you to know that my respect for you has only deepened after learning of his seduction. You were taken advantage of, yet did not allow him to steal you, the essential you, the joyful you. You did not allow his evil intentions to define you.

Write out your own ending, Nevvy!" Chuffy exclaimed.

I saw one in pain, in pain enough for ten strong women but she didn't say a word about that pain, she went deep under the water and came back and she wasn't alone

We yield our wills and our imaginations to "experts," both visible and invisible, and pretend that only the experts have god-given powers of perception. We forget the legitimacy of our own knowing.

There are wings on the shoulders of all men, But being invisible the wings are never spread.

Remember—twenty per cent of women have inferiority complexes. Seventy per cent have illusions…. Ninety per cent are afraid of being conspicuous and of what people will say. So they buy a gray suit. They should dare to be different.