Quotes About Empowerment

A rich man is always simply a rich man, but a rich woman is only a poor woman who just happens to have money.

I think we live in this world, but we don't change the world.

their relationship had a spiritual dimension. Think about that for a moment. Language is power. Prentiss was like a spiritual guide. She gave Jennie power—and Jennie used it.

If nobody was going to save her, she was going to save herself.

in our culture, women can do anything a man can. and vice versa. don alfonso's eyebrows shot up. i do not believe it. it's true, sally said defiantly. in America, the women hunt while the men have babies?

to authorize that personally.

the value of work? Have I taught them self-reliance? Have I taught them to take care of each

Anger and tenderness: my selves

But I knew even then that I did not want my sons to act for me in the world, any more than I wished for them to kill or die for their country. I wanted to act, to live, in myself and to love them for their separate selves.

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters that beak which grips her, she becomes.

As Jesus says in the Gospel of Thomas, "If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." [Gospel of Thomas 70]

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Willingly no one chooses the yoke of slavery.

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged.

It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.

Living by yourself is better than living with a bad woman.

Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

Never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one's own particular race is fairly widespread.