Quotes About Empowerment

You have created a life, now let the child have it. Let him decide what he wants to do with the life you gave him

An accepting parent is willing to let a child develop his own "program" for life; a less accepting parent feels a need to program the child's life for him.

The lesson for parents is that they can be helpful consultants to their children—they can share their ideas, experience, wisdom—if they remember to act like an effective consultant so they do not get fired by the clients whom they wish to help.

I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

I don't see why a maid should take a husband when she's bold enough to fight her own battles

Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women do when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

She dismissed the past – trod upon it and put it out, as one treads on a coal that is smouldering and dangerous.

She is a bold and passionate woman, fighting to earn respect as a farm owner and over the course of the novel she has to endure much suffering, which enhances her better qualities while diminishing some elements of her less admirable traits.

Gabriel Oak: It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away

It is never too late to break off a marriage that's distasteful to you. 

What was the past to me as soon as I met you? It was a dead thing altogether. I became another woman, filled full of new life from you. How could I be the early one? Why do you not see this? Dear, if you would only be a little more conceited, and believe in yourself so far as to see that you was strong enough to work this change in me, you would perhaps be in a mind to come to me, your poor wife.

Shall anything bolder be found than united woman?' Mr Spinks murmured.

Aber manche Frauen brauchen nur die Herausforderung, damit sie ihr gewachsen sind.

Algunas mujeres sólo necesitan una emergencia para demostrar que son capaces de manejarla.

Bathsheba había alcanzado ese punto en el que la gente deja de preocuparse por lo que los demás puedan pensar.

I love myself that much and I will never apologize to you.

Before his Becoming, he would not have dared any of this. Now he realized he could do anything. Anything. Anything.

There was a time when he would have apologized for disturbing the man and never come back to the newsstand. For years he had taken shit unlimited from people. Not anymore.

Clarice sabía lo que suele ocurrirle a una mujer si deja que se le cuelgue la etiqueta de secretaria: de secretaria se queda por los siglos de los siglos.

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it.

The role of enlightened parents is too strengthen the weak.

It is not her intention to create another generation of weak sisters.