Quotes About Empowerment

Like a relay race with a long overlap in which the baton is passed—lasting at least eighteen years and often longer—our job as parents is to position our children to run their solo laps effectively.

Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.

The critic said, but don't you feel awkward about biting the hand that feeds you? I said no, I enjoy just gnawing it up to the shoulder.

Now that was when I felt the [citizenship school] program was successful when it was no longer even part of an organization.

I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone.

People generally fall into one of three groups: the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens. Every person is either a creator of fact or a creature of circumstance. He either puts color into his environment, or, like a chameleon, takes color from his environment.

You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.

God did not create woman from man's head, that he should command her, nor from his feet, that she should be his slave, but rather from his side, that she should be near his heart.

God's love sets us free from the need to seek approval. Knowing that we are loved by God, accepted by God, approved by God, and that we are new creations in Christ empowers us to reject self-rejection and embrace a healthy self-love. Being secure in God's love for us, our love for Him, and our love for ourselves, prepares us to fulfill the second greatest commandment: To love our neighbor as ourselves.

Each time a girl opens a book and finds a womanless history, she learns she is worth less.

I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.

He had no more control over his life than a dog on a chain, but caring for Lucy made him feel…well…strong.

everyone's place to do it

These women were not ahead of their time-they were their time. And that legacy-Mary's-endures.

If one can, anyone can. If two can, you can, too!

When we as God's children realize that His grace is sufficient for every situation, at that point we are no longer victims. We are free to rise above and move on beyond whatever may have been done to us, to release those who have wronged us, and to become instruments of grace, reconciliation, and redemption in the lives of other hurting people—even in the lives of our offenders.

You cannot expect to be victorious if the day begins only in your own strength.

Betty Big Boobs

Ultimately, who we are can't be hidden. But here's the deal: when we face the worst that's in us, somehow we become better than we are - better than we ever thought we could be.

Once woman is made equal to man, she fancies herself his superior

A talented artist who has unfortunately turned her energies to the cause of women's so-called rights.

Pan Mycroft to, pan Mycroft tamto, pan Mycroft mo?e i?? si? wypcha?.

I could not be corseted, either literally or figuratively, into any conventional feminine mould.

One cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman's selfhood and her dreams.