Quotes About Empowerment

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

All the geography, trigonometry, and arithmetic in the world are useless unless you learn to think for yourself. No school teaches you that. It's not on the curriculum.

Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere)

Lo que tiene que hacer usted es empezar a evitar que los demás le escriban el diálogo. Use la cabeza que Dios le ha plantado sobre las cervicales y hágase usted mismo el libreto.

Nada asusta más a un cafre que una mujer que sabe leer, escribir, pensar y encima enseña las rodillas.»

You'll become who you believe you are.

It's what I always say: if you want things to turn our well, you must put a woman in charge.

the day women are allowed to learn to read and write the world will become ungovernable.

Što ?e ti sva geografija, trigonometrija i aritmetika svijeta ako ne nau?iš misliti svojom glavom? To te ne nau?e ni u jednoj školi. Nije u programu.

La filosofía de normalidad con la que hay que educar implica no dar poder a ninguna circunstancia adversa y no permitir que se convierta en trauma.

el futuro de la literatura depende de las mujeres

Sie [Lorena] sagte, das Niveau der Barbarei einer Gesellschaft messe sich an der Distanz, die sie zwischen die Frauen und die Bücher zu bringen versuchte. Nichts erschüttert einen Kaffer so sehr wie eine Frau, die lesen, schreiben und denken kann und obendrein noch die Knie zeigt.

It's up to you. It is one thing to believe in women, and another to believe what they say.

the level of barbarism in a society is measured by the distance it tries to create between women and books.

si uno quiere que las cosas salgan bien hay que poner a una mujer al mando. —No me

You'll become who you believe you are.

That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.

And here you come with a shield for a heart and a sword for a tongue

May we all soon go about as our real selves and take joy in it, saying, yes, yes, to whatever we are.

He said, 'I like to see some spirit in my women. I like spunk and the fire in the eye. A woman like that is worth having,' but that was before I kicked him in the groin.

Hester, in the dark conclusion of Hawthorne's brooding novel, reassumes the Puritan mantle….Hawthorne thus captures the catch-22 of feminism: the very woman who is able to envision a new order of living is, by the same token, unable, since the passion that enables her also adulterates her in the eyes of the Puritans. Released from goodness, she is imprisoned in badness, within the framework of the puritanical order. But her mind is free to question the order.

This knotted dilemma lies at the center of women's development. How can girls both enter and stay outside of, be educated in and then try to change, what for millennia has been a man's world?

She is always there for each and every one of us, particles of atoms, cells, animals, and human animals. We are precious in Her sight. She understands and remembers us with unending sympathy. She inspires us to live creatively, joyfully, and in harmony with others in the web of life. Yet choice is ours.

In God is a woman like yourself.