Quotes About Empowerment

When anything goes, it's women who lose.

We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power.

Your success is 100 percent your responsibility.

Nunca te expongas a ideas negativas,

Con frecuencia caemos víctimas de las influencias negativas de los demás porque aceptamos sus críticas y opiniones negativas sin cuestionamientos, y así permitimos que siembren en nuestra mente falsas creencias que nos limitan física, emocional e intelectualmente.

Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.

I have learned not to judge people by their limitations, but by the way they push past them.

Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.

It used to be she didn't get dressed a lot of days. Now she comes out of her room most mornings dressed like she's ready to go. She still doesn't go anywhere, but the important part is, she could.

This is slavery, not to speak one's thought.

But I hope reading will give him something to look forward to, a reason to fight. I want to believe reading will fill him with courage.

Believing is not enough, Sang Ly. If you want to resurrect hope, doing is the most important" p. 33

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.

When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.

Try as I might, I couldn't destroy my spirit. And try as I might, I couldn't change who I was. I was left with what to me seemed to be the most difficult option: loving myself just the way I am.

4/16/85: If I were thin, I'd never say "I am powerless over fudge." a) I can't believe I actually ever said that. b) Which, of course, isn't to say that I do have any power over fudge. Particularly if it has nuts.

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with.