Quotes About Empowerment

Swept away was a fortuitous choice of words: it made her mad. She'd been swept away once—she'd let herself be, hoped and desired to be; that's how it always went in romantic stories. She'd never be that passive again. It was far, far better to choose,

For the merest moment I couldn't breathe. Something inside me quivered, some oud string plucked by his words, and if I breathed it would stop. He did not know the truth of me, yet he had perceived something true about me that no one else had ever noticed. And in spite of that—or perhaps because of it—he believed me good, believed me worth taking seriously, and his belief, for one vertiginous moment, made me want to be better than I was.

He was loved. He loved in return. Oh, what a man could accomplish when empowered by such knowledge.

capable woman you are and

who God's called you to be. You are an amazing woman. Don't lose sight of who you are because a man can't appreciate you.

The most humiliating word in the human language. But.

Don't wait for life to tap you on the shoulder.Go out and tap it .

EVERY NEW DAY IS A CHANCE TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

I will canoodle with a dumb man, but I won't snuggle with an asshole.

Feminism means having a choice. And feminism doesn't care which choices you make, either. Just that you have them. The point has never been to establish some principled refusal to give yourself to another human being. The point is to make sure you can give yourself--or not give yourself--of your free will.

Men, perhaps, might nourish both heart and mind, but for a woman there could be no such luxury... How readily the rules of female behavior--gentleness, acquiescence, ever-mindfulness--turn to shackles. So, she thought, there must be declared a new kind of virtue: one that made the throwing off of such rules, and even such deceit as this required, praiseworthy.

woman must have a heart made of something tougher, or she dies when a first blow comes.

If I know something, I am not a victim. Victims don't know the meaning of their suffering. I am an enemy or a collaborator, not a victim.

the point of the film....was about being a woman, about caring an not caring what happens to you. it was about not really caring. p.198

When the police came to San Lorenzo they were fired upon by children and grandmothers with rocks, buckets of water, rotten eggs. There was more of the proletarian shopping, as it was called, that I'd seen on the Via del Corso. Jeans for the people. Cheese and bread and wine for the people. Umbrellas for the people, because rain fell and fell that week.

You can't own someone for a dollar.

It was only a motorcycle but it felt like a mode of being.

Instead of imposing narrow and arbitrary definitions of Blackness on one another and alienating those who do not measure up, create spaces that allow people to be Black in their own way so they can contribute to our collective advancement.

I'm not just a Strong Black Woman; I'm a Real Human Being with strengths and vulnerabilities, hopes and fears, standards and contradictions.

On the deepest level, I know my body is on my side.

no demon can posses you if you maintain the ability to turn and laugh at it

I tell girls all the time that the men that have fallen in love with me, have all fallen during a man repeller stage... funny how life works out like that.

I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.

Girls may try to avoid being alone at all costs, including remaining in an abusive friendship.