Quotes About Empowerment

Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're a working woman or you're not. I'm raising two girls, and I say to them, 'I need you to be strong and soft. You can be smart and beautiful... You can be all of these things.'

In a peer network, no one is officially in charge. It doesn't have a command hierarchy. It doesn't have a boss. So, all the decisions are somehow made collectively. The control of the system is in the hands of everyone who is a part of it.

One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.

Though it's safe to say there are a whole lotta American gals who agree with the core ideals of feminism, they are somehow nevertheless watching 'Say Yes to the Dress' by the millions.

You have to be someone.

Managing is getting paid for home runs that someone else hits.

You don't have to fit into a mold that someone else has defined.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

In the discharge of the duties of this office, there is one rule of action more important than all others. It consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.

Kids don't like what they don't understand, and judo was always my social outlet. I always felt really socially awkward, and I couldn't speak very well when I was younger. When I was doing judo, it was something that I could understand and someplace where I felt that I belonged and fit in.

If someone doesn't want me working their club, they're not going to hear from me again. I'm not going to fight or complain about it. I'd rather go someplace else.

To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

Coming from the Eastern Cape, it's one of the most poverty-stricken provinces in the country, so whether it be in education or something else, I'd like to go directly there and help because I've seen it first-hand and experienced it.

Every love gives you wings.

Love frees my thoughts and deeds.

But it's up to us...' he said softly. 'it's up to us not to lose this.

In some cases abusive or damaged relationships cannot and should not be saved.

When you know someone behind you, you can change the world, when you know someone behind her, the world will change you.

If I open my mouthMy word would be of love and hopeTenderness completing me from inside out

Choosing to love, in spite of all its complexities, is the only freedom there is.

Noorilhuda, The Governess

Live and let live.Love thyself, in order to love thy man.Smart, independent women attract men.

LOGAN: ...Izzy could do whatever the hell she wanted. All she needed to do was not give a sh*t about fitting in.

Your body is the house you grew up in. How dare you try to burn it to the ground.