Quotes About Empowerment

She felt dizzy, exhilarated, because a thousand words she had kept tightly within her had been given their freedom, because he had spoken kindly to her.

Our roles should be reversed. You'd thrive on this.

If a woman knows secret richness touches her flesh, she walks taller.

Calling them creatures merely assists them to intimidate you.

He is coming into bloom, remembering himself, no longer denying who and what he is.

Even though she stood beyond the shadow, she had to shiver.

Don't think me a mouse, she thought, or even a little wren. I will discover for myself what kind of animal I am.

Lord, I pray that my husband will be strong in the Lord and put on the whole armor of God, so he can stand against the enemy every day. Enable him to take up the shield of faith, helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.

Allow yourself to be possessed by God by receiving Jesus, and you will never be possessed by anything else.

Thousands of persons, many of whom never darkened the door of a college, have learned to read books that most of our college graduates fear to tackle. teachers who understand this fact can help a student read the books that educated the Founding Fathers but not by explaining in lectures what the author would have said if he had been as bright as the lecturer.

Shtark zich." Make yourself strong.

The purpose of teachers should be to add to the sum of human knowers rather than the sum of human knowledge.

Poverty is restriction and as such, it is the greatest injustice you can perpetrate upon yourself.

You're the only one who can decide what's best for you.

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.'

Everybody's entitled to that forty acres and a mule. You're going to do the work, but you have to have something to work with. If you don't have a job, where do you go from there? You hear people say Pull yourself up by your bootstraps, and you don't even have shoes. You're barefooted. What are you going to pull yourself up by? Our country owes every citizen of the United States of America a means of livelihood. Not a handout, but a way to make it.

A man? If I need a man, wouldn't you think I'd have one of my own? Must I wait for you?

Hope has never trickled down. It has always sprung up.

As to whether Marcos is gay: Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal,… a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains.

Subhadra Sen Gupta

My sorrows are my strength I won't share it with anyone to get rid of it

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)