Quotes About Empowerment

The goal of the machine," David explained, "is to create a setting where the users can get into a state of deep human flourishing—creating work that's at the absolute extent of their personal abilities." It

Every example below is something that either I or someone I know was able to learn and execute in a single weekend. Changing your own car oil Installing a new ceiling-mounted light fixture Learning the basics of a new technique on an instrument you already play (e.g., a guitar player learning Travis picking) Figuring out how to precisely calibrate the tone arm on your turntable Building a custom headboard from high-quality lumber Starting a garden plot

To Woolf, in other words, solitude is not a pleasant diversion, but instead a form of liberation from the cognitive oppression that results in its absence. [referencing Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own]

In which I argue that control over what you do, and how you do it, is one of the most powerful traits you can acquire when creating work you love.

To Woolf, in other words, solitude is not a pleasant diversion, but instead a form of liberation from the cognitive oppression that results in its absence.

It's not about usefulness, it's about autonomy.

When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.

Venciste, mujer, con no dejarte vencer.

Si nous partons du postulat que les hommes sont à éduquer, nous pouvons aussi bien dire que, manquant d'éducation, voire d'humanisme, il conviendrait de ne pas leur laisser les rênes du commandement de la chose publique.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

Democracy is not a tearing down; it is a building up. It does not denial of the divine right of kings; it asserts the divine right of all men.

I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

It live on in all who live and remember, teaching them how to discover such a love for themselves.

My father might never claim me, but here, in this moment, I had finally claimed my mother for my own.

Your possibilities are endless, while mine are already sewn up tight. And even if you never find out, you'll still be whatever you can make of yourself.

Sometimes you have to be proactive. You can't just sit there, waiting for things to happen. For things to change. Sometimes you have to take things into your own hands.

For who can say which is the more empowered, them or us, if we can speak to each other successfully across the chasm of time and difference? Do we ourselves not become wiser and stronger every time we grasp the perspective of people whom we once dismissed?

When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.

We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex in all their dark, unconsoling mysteries.

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s.

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.