Quotes About Empowerment

I told you. You own me. I'm yours. All that I have been. All that I am. All that I will ever be. Your happiness is mine. Your fury is mine. And your needs will be met before mine. I love you, and to me, that means placing you first and giving to you what I will never give to another. Power over me. (Thane to Elin)

You speak what you believe, and you believe you're doomed. If there's one thing I've learned throughout the years, it's that what you believe is the impetus for your entire life.

Yeah, but you're a girl. The braver species.

Cool. I'm Kathryn, but everyone calls me Kat. And do not make any cat jokes or I'll have to hurt you. With my claws." she waved the long, blunt tips of her fingers at me. "Truth be told, I stopped speaking meow a long time ago." speaking meow? "I'm guessing calling you pretty kitty is out.

I remind myself that I'm no longer a damsel in distress. I can think this through. What I can't do? Base my decision on fear. Because, while I might be free to make my choice right now, I'll never be free from the consequences of that choice

One day a girl is going to cut out your tongue," Kitten told him. "If she does it with her teeth, I'm surprisingly okay with that.

Leave it to the woman to save the day—and the mansel in distress.

Mr. Boot draws back his leg, preparing to deliver another strike. I prepare to take it like a girl. Better than a man.

My momma says we don't need a man to do our chores for us, 'cause we are smart and capable and I believe her even though Sara's mom says men were born to be our slaves, we just have to know how to manage them.

Voglio una stanza tutta per me.» «No.» «No e basta?» «Esatto: tu resti qui.» Le parole con me non vennero pronunciate, ma erano sottintese. «Non ho vissuto a lungo a Budapest e non ho passato molto tempo in questa camera, ma è mia.» Come lo sei tu. Anche questo era sottinteso.

Scars speak for you. They say you're strong and you've survived something that might have killed others.

Cool. I'm Kathryn, but everyone calls me Kat. And do not make any cat jokes or I'll have to hurt you. With my claws." She waved the long, blunt tips of her fingers at me. "Truth is, I stopped speaking meow a long time ago.

Why had she feared this, anyway? When she didn't like something, she changed it. pg 454

I have zero desire to be tossed around like some kind of meat bag just because I have possession of a ball anyone can buy at any sporting-goods store for less than twenty dollars.

Forget a cloak of invisibility. I prefer to wear a cloak of hot as hell-ness." —William the Ever Randy

As much as I don't want to get their hopes up, I do want to get their hopes up. Hope empowers. It's the reason we wake and the reason we rise. The reason we keep moving forward.

Besties before testes...

In short, a man who is able to teach is a person who is not in bondage to himself. Rather, his true identity in Jesus Christ has enabled him to be in control of his mind and emotions.

What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?

A lot of what drives me and others working in this space is the knowledge that, whatever your constraints, we can always do better, and the desire to help people on their journey.

I expect leaders to buffer their people from all the political and bureaucratic insanity, not throw them into it.

When everyone is conditioned to believe that no isn't an acceptable answer, we all just became compliant order takers, blindly marching down a doomed path. I

We cannot afford to have this leadership team be order takers. We pay you to think, not just do!

should be as easy as writing one line of code to create a new metric that shows up in a common dashboard where everyone in the value stream can see it.