Quotes About Empowerment

The message of this book is not that every woman should read or watch pornography. It is that every woman should decide for herself.

For centuries, women have struggled against tremendous odds to have their contracts taken seriously. At great personal expense, they stood up and demanded the right to own land, to control their own wages, to retain custody of their children-in other words, to become legally responsible for themselves and for their property. A woman's consent must never again become legally irrelevant.

The issue that united the anti-slavery and feminist movements was a demand for the right of every human being to control his or her own body and property. This same principle is the core of individualist feminism today.

Real protection means teaching children to manage risks on their own, not shielding them from every hazard.

I started yelling in a loud voice, "Dignity!" What did we want after dignity? We didn't know. But we knew that we needed more than just food.

Today, the word "refugee" is used in a horrible way. It's something either to be pitied or blamed for everything. Overpopulation? It's the refugees. Rents going up? It's the refugees. Crime? It's the refugees. If you label people refugees, they remain refugees for the rest of their lives.

But when my sister is arrested and they rape her, I have no problem entering any place in the world with a car strapped with explosives.

After all, the more women are developed internally, the more this is threatening to a society that insists on seeing them merely externally.

Encouraged to act immodestly, a woman exposes her vulnerability and she then becomes, in fact, the weaker sex. A woman can argue that she is exactly the same as a man, she may deny having any special vulnerability, and act accordingly, but I cannot help noticing that she usually ends up exhibiting her feminine nature anyway, only this time in victimhood, not in strength.

Let's take the focus off "fat" and put it on health. Let's take the focus off "skinny" and put it on good common sense. Let's take the focus off body image and put it on education, women's rights, human rights, the economy, baseball cards, anything.

It's easy to hate women and hate women's bodies when we don't do very much to fight back. We have to step into the skin we're in. Your body isn't perfect? Well, neither is mine. Neither is anyone's. It's time to redefine "perfect" or drop the expectation. It's time to feed ourselves with compassion instead of grief. Compassion instead of starvation. Compassion instead of food.

Karl Marx himself spoke to her and said, "Sheilah, arise, you have nothing to lose but your mediocrity.

The girls who choose Bryn Mawr," I said, "have often been outcasts and misfits. When they come to Bryn Mawr, they're transformed." And I set forth my theory of our empowerment in our collective oddity.

Madame Merle says, "I don't pretend to know what people are meant for. . . . I only know what I can do with them.

I wanted to peel myself off of me.

She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.

Women survived heartache and disappointment all the time, and daily demands that men could never fathom.

Haïti a besoin de jeunes tres éduqués de solides compétences en leadership pour prendre en main et diriger le pays.

Haiti needs young educated people with strong leadership skills to take over and lead the country in the right direction.

Yo pini Ayiti paske Ayiti se premye nasyon nwa ki te ede epi montre anpil peyi kijan pou yo jwenn libète yo. Pandan ane yo, yo pini Ayiti pou liberasyon anpil esklav atravè lemond.

Self-esteem adapts to any environment.

The key to the cage is in your wings."

A woman with a clear conscience is free to pursue her own style.

After I spent my whole life chasing wings, I learned that I don't need them to fly."