Quotes About Empowerment

Rock and menopause do not mix. It is not good, it sucks and every day I fight it to the death, or, at the very least, not let it take me over.

Don't be a lady, be a legend.

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle.

Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it.

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.

We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy.

Now you have told me your story, I feel there's a reason behind everything that's happened to me. I don't know if I can make a difference to anything, but if people don't try, nothing will change. I'm eager to try. I want knowledge and strength. I want to go on from here one day and find the dark heart of Magravandias. I want to crush it." Taropat smiled. "I'm glad you're enjoying yourself.

The symbolism of what they had done meant nothing in this world, this life, unless we ourselves empowered it with meaning.

Caradore has made a woman out of a little mouse.

Today, we were women travelling together, soulscapers on the road, and we could conserve our power by cheating fate to others' advantage. It is a strange code we live by.

She has a belief in herself that creates an area of safety.

This hour belonged to Tamara alone.

You cannot suppress the female celebration of life.

Varencienne had become a true woman of Caradore, as was right and needful, but she was a spirited young woman. She liked to believe she had autonomy.

I will slither from his grasp. I will be like the Caradorean mist. If someone punches me, they will hit only air. I cann't be broken by force. I will bend and twist and float away. If he cuts me with a sword, I will laugh. If he cuts me with words, I will simply shrug. He will laugh at what happens to me at the fire pits and I will smile and shrug. It doesn't matter.

You are nearly a woman, and a wondrous woman at that!

She felt as if she'd finally come home, to people that had always been her people. Women working magic together, a tradition as old as the earth Herself.

This is what I'm really like, what I've always been like. I'm just lucky because I've found a way around the injustice, the fucking unbelievable injustice of nature. You think the decaying body was me? You think the sagging tits, the slab shanks, the dried up old cunt, was me. No. This is me. And it's the same for every god-damned ancient bint in the world, whatever nature's done to them. Just remember that.

You are learning about yourself," he said. "Such knowledge can defend you better than a sword or armor. Such knowledge gives you arrows of the mind.

We should havest our sustenance, not beg for it!

I don't want you to want me, but only to want yourself. We won't know each other for long.