Quotes About Empowerment

Leaning to your true feelings isn't something you're born knowing how to do. It requires practice. The great news is that these skills are like muscles, the more you use them, the stronger they get. ... And trust me, the more you listen, the louder that voice will get.

The pressure on mothers to be selfless at home means that too many daughters discover their leadership potential only after walking out the front door. What would it mean to have leadership begin at home?

I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.

And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had nothing left to lose.

For your own sake you must go to Oxford, you'll need every weapon your brain can give you; being what you are you'll need every weapon.

Who are you to deny me the right to love?

Joan has a right to love whom she likes, and to go where she likes and to work and be independent and happy, and if she can't be happy then she has a right to make her own unhappiness; it's a thousand times better to be unhappy in your own way than to be happy in someone else's.

I've spent fifty years...without a man in my bed. Think...of all the orgasms I missed.

What could possibly be more attractive to a woman than a strong man who believed in her?

You should just throw your shoulders back, tell those negative voices in your head to shut the hell up and celebrate yourself

A person who requires others to fill in happiness in their lives or solely depends on others to full-fill their needs is a sign of a weak person.

Give a man a zero day he will hack for a day, Teach a man how to find a zero day, he will hack for lifetime.

Education is great … but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I am.

Laws" and "rules" imposed on you From days of old renown, Are not intended for your "good" But for your crushing down. Then dare to rend the chains that bind And to yourself be true. Dare to liberate your mind, From all things, old and new.

Laws" and "Rules" imposed on you From days of old renown. Are not intended for your "good" But for your crushing down. Then dare to rend the chains that bind And to yourself be true. Dare to liberate your mind, From all things, old and new. Always think your own thought. All other thoughts reject; Learn to use your own brain And boldly stand erect.

Be aware of what you allow to fuel your thoughts, the energy you take in and what emotions you put out and how it effects you and others..

I love Raina Telgemeier

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

Women think in [Douglas] Sirk's films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk they think. It's something that has to be seen. It's great to see women think. It gives one hope. Honestly.

And I do believe that the way to change a society, to uplift people - not just their spirit, but to uplift their society and economic base - is through education.

Within us lies the unlimited power and energy of the empowered soul. Its rich qualities include wisdom, fearlessness, immortality, unconditional love, connectedness, and bliss.

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than that you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them. Actually, also, under the very odd conditions of Arabia, your practical work will not be as good as, perhaps, you think it is.

Muhammad Ali Jauhar, who for three remarkable years (1919-1922) championed Hindi-Muslim partnership, dismissed the 'divide-and-rule' explanation for India's problems. 'They don't divide,' Jauhar pointed out. 'We divide and they rule.

Gandhi refused to accept that tanks and bombs constituted a nation's ultimate strength. To him, the health, education and unity of a nation's people were more important.