Quotes About Empowerment

A woman should have a certain respect for herself and not submit to humiliation

I help those who can help themselves.

Your idea of a woman is some one who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That's all prehistoric.

It has always seemed to me so extraordinary that a woman should go so far in the scientific world. I should have thought a purely masculine brain was needed for such work.

Georges, never do anything yourself that others can do for you.

What I do realise is that women must stick together -- one should, in an emergency, stand by one's own sex.

Ser Justase, nekad je dovoljno da date ?oveku dovoljno konopca i pustite ga da se sam obesi.

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

we live this one brief and precious hour called Life; ...it is not in keeping with the nobility of existence to keep other human being in subjection..." -Agnes Smedley in Daughter of Earth

How wonderful to simply do things instead of wondering if they are worth doing or discussing whether to do them or being told not to do them or listening to somebody else describe doing them.

All people hope Islam helps everything in life. Islam will make jobs. Islam will make freedom. Islam will make everything.

People aren't helpless because they want to be helpless. People are helpless because it's all they know.

Ha ka noqon goobaha waxbarashada macmiil joogto ah! Noqo mid ka midho dhaliya hadafka ardaynimo.

plus lastly, It shouldnt matter who you are (or) what your work place is. Self-defense is Self-defense. No one has the right to lay any pyshical abuse on "ANYONE .

Je parle de millions d'hommes à qui on a inculqué savamment la peur, le complexe d'infériorité, le tremblement, l'agenouillement, le désespoir, le larbinisme.

it is the colonized man who wants to move forward, and the colonizer who holds things back.

Prospero, you are the master of illusion. Lying is your trademark. And you have lied so much to me (Lied about the world, lied about me) That you have ended by imposing on me An image of myself. Underdeveloped, you brand me, inferior, That s the way you have forced me to see myself I detest that image! What's more, it's a lie! But now I know you, you old cancer, And I know myself as well.

my negritude riddles with holesthe dense affliction of its worthy patience.

Where we once had fear we now have courage, because we have been given knowledge.