Quotes About Empowerment

I am not what happens to me. I choose who I become.

I am not what has happened to me, I am who I choose to become.

needs to have the ability to stand up and leave if it is no longer productive to stay.

If you let someone talk you out of the word "no," you might as well wear a sign that reads, "You are in charge.

So when we wonder why we are victims so often, the answer is clear: It is because we are so good at it.

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out." —Karl A. Menninger

I suggest that women never explain why they don't want a relationship but simply make clear that they have thought it over, that this is their decision, and that they expect the man to respect it. Why would a woman explain intimate aspects of her life, plans, and romantic choices to someone she doesn't want a relationship with?

We rely upon the woman herself to plan a course of action. Anyone, in or out of the system, who tells a woman she must follow a particular course that goes against her own judgment and intuition is not only failing to use the philosophy of empowerment, but may well be endangering the woman.

As parent and child advocate Anna McDonnell says, "To have a child is to have the chance to revisit your own childhood and self, and sometimes to make changes that have been needed for a long while." Trained for decades to interact with men in ways that serve the patriarchy, the new mother must answer to no man if doing so might place her or her child at risk.

the simple defense for forced teaming, which is to make a clear refusal to accept the concept of partnership: "I did not ask for your help and I do not want it.

I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.

No" is a word that must never be negotiated, because the person who chooses not to hear it is trying to control you.

The whole damn thing started when they gave women the vote.

When Gertrude Ederle struck out from France she left behind her a world which has believed for a great many centuries that woman is the weaker vessel. Much of government, most of law and practically all of morality is based upon this assumption. And when her toes touched the sands of England, she stepped out of the water into a brand-new world. It may be that she will turn out to be an even greater discoverer than Columbus. It was only a continent which he found.

Suddenly I realized that it was my job to complete myself through my power of loving me.

How am I getting in my own way?

Where in my life am I not taking full ownership? Another way to ask it is: What am I trying to disown? Or: What aspect of my life do I need to take full ownership of?

Big Leap Web site.

When you stop complaining about time, you cease perpetuating the destructive myth that time is the persecutor and you are its victim. I found

Entanglement begins the moment you step out of an equal relationship with your partner and become an advocate for your victimhood.

I can't expand to my highest potential because I'd be an even bigger burden than I am now.

Gay Hendricks

I took the Big Leap into my Zone of Genius, I might fail. What if I really opened up to my true genius and found that my genius wasn't good enough?

Criticism and blame are addictions.