Quotes About Empowerment

An employer can't prove an employee incompetent simply by announcing that she is. But because "beauty" lives so deep in the psyche, where sexuality mingles with self-esteem, and since it has been usefully defined as something that is continually bestowed from the outside and can always be taken away, to tell a woman she is ugly can make her feel ugly, act ugly, and, as far as her experience is concerned, be ugly, in the place where feeling beautiful keeps her whole.

The problem with cosmetics exists only when women feel invisible or inadequate without them. The problem with working out exists only if women hate ourselves when we don't. When a woman is forced to adorn herself to buy a hearing, when she needs her grooming in order to protect her identity, when she goes hungry in order to keep her job, when she must attract a lover so that she can take care of her children, that is exactly what makes 'beauty' hurt.

It is inconceivable to the dominant culture that it should respect as a political allegiance, as deep as any ethnic or racial pride, a woman's determination to show her loyalty—in the face of a beauty myth as powerful as myths about white supremacy—to her age, her shape, her self, her life.

A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified, which is the basis of female identification. If a woman loves her own body, she doesn't grudge what other women do with theirs; if she loves femaleness, she champions its rights.

Even Barbie has been redesigned with a more realistic body type and now comes in many colors. Looking around, there is a bit more room today to be oneself.

Are women beautiful or aren't we?

Lad os være skamløse. Grådige. Opsøge fornøjelser. Undgå smerte. Klæde os, spise og drikke, som vi har lyst til. Være tolerante over for andre kvinders valg. Vælge den form for sex, vi har lyst til og kæmpe hårdt mod den form for sex, vi ikke har lyst til. Finde vore egne grunde til at handle, som vi gør.

for women's magazines cannot become more interesting until women believe that we ourselves are more interesting—the myth is bound to become many times more powerful.

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

One of my favorite quotations is this, from the late poet Audre Lorde: "My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you." It is truer now more than ever. This is a dangerous moment indeed.

Or else they will say: "Thank you so much for speaking for me when I was too little to speak." "Dad, Mom, Grandma, Grandpa," they will ask: "What did you do?" So let me leave you with this question: What did you do?

There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.

Awake,arise,and assert yourself,you dreamers of the world. Your star is now in ascendancy.

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

faith removes limitations!

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Your only limitation is the one which you set up in your own mind.

No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy; unless you let him.

Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind!

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind

FEAR is the tool of a man-made devil.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Remember, the thoughts that you think and the statements you make regarding yourself determine your mental attitude. If you have a worthwhile objective, find the one reason why you can achieve it rather than hundreds of reasons why you can't.