Quotes About Empowerment

Stop dwelling on events and people who have disappointed you.

Wings unclipped, there was only me playing with empty space that kneeled to my will.

No one else can fight your battles for you. In the end we all stand alone. So when it comes your time to stand front and center, raise your chin high, look everyone straight in the eye and know in your heart that you're up to the challenge.

You deserve to be happy. You also deserve to be you

You have to believe in yourself before anyone else will.

If you like what you do, then own it," he said. "Be whoever you want to be. The worst thing is trying to be someone you're not.

independence sprang from those years when I

Some June, for instance, when the rigors of the academic year are over, I would like to invite the women's studies scholars I know to a banquet where we would cook and serve things like Emily Dickinson's bread and Elizabeth Cady Stanton's pudding (the kind she was always asking Susan B. Anthony to cook for her so that she had time to write a speech).

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.

Cuando tocas fondo, pierdes el miedo...y es fantástico.

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.

If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

There is no obstacle in the path of young people who are poor or members of minority groups that hard work and preparation cannot cure.

If women are choosing not to run the world, it's partly because men are choosing not to run the washer and dryer.

Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

Girl Don't be dumb Don't be coy Don't be intimidated Don't think it can't happen to you Do safer sex because AIDS kills Don't die for love

There is a need to find and sing our own song, to stretch our limbs and shake them in a dance so wild that nothing can roost there, that stirs the yearning for solitary voyage.

You always have to think for yourself.

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.