Quotes About Empowerment

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. – Edward Everett Hale

Non ho paura della vita pensò. Sono stati solo anni di apprendistato. Terribilmente duri, è vero, ma mi hanno temprata, hanno rafforzato il mio coraggio e il mio orgoglio. E questo mi appartiene, è la mia ricchezza inalienabile. Sono sola, ma la mia solitudine è aspra e inebriante.

let me at least retain the right to decide my own destiny, to laugh at it, defy it, escape it if I can. A slave? Better to be a slave than a dog who thinks he's free as he trots along behind his master.

People are inherently dignified, and they are only made undignified if they are placed in situations that are demeaning.

No one else can choose your attitude for you. Your perspective and choice of attitude gives you the power to be in control.

The chief requirement of the good life', said Michael, 'is that one should have some conception of one's capacities. One must know oneself sufficiently to know what is the next thing. One must study carefully how best to use such strength as one has. ... One must perform the lower act which one can manage and sustain: not the higher act which one bungles.

I may add here that one of the secrets of my happy life is that i have never made the mistake of learning to drive a car. I have never lacked people, usually women, longing to drive me withersoever I wanted. Why keep bitches and bark yourself?

I know her by intuition as if she were inside my head.

She could have a good career. She could be secretary to some interesting man.' 'I don't want her to be secretary to some interesting man,' said Mor, 'I want her to be an interesting woman and have someone else be her secretary.

Lately Louise had decided to give up wearing make-up altogether, but had not yet acted upon the decision.

God loves me enough to give me choices and the liberty to make them. In turn, I am to love God's other children enough to have faith in their ability to make choices.

It was the books I started reading. It was the music I started listening to. It was the television I started watching. I found myself thinking again. I tried to stop because it was only causing pain. I couldn't. Wen all this is in your head it has to come out into your life. If it doesn't, you get crushed. I'm not going to get crushed.

We are giving the world back to man, and man back to himself. Man shall no longer be vile, but noble. We shall not destroy his mind in return for an immortal soul. Without a free, vigorous and creative mind, man is but an animal, and he will die like an animal, without any shred of a soul. We return to man his arts, his literature, his sciences, his independence to think and feel as an individual, not to be bound to dogma like a slave, to rot in his chains.

Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.

I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality, each liberal-minded woman, each gay person, and indeed almost every person could be their own President. In a world of equals, what real service does a ruler provide?

Throughout you have invariably relied on authority or on the past—never on yourselves.

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it.

Men who feel themselves strong enough to decide for themselves what is best for themselves, and not just to be told what is best for others.

Siempre han confiado en la autoridad o en el pasado, nunca en sí mismos. Sus

All is bad that is imposed from without,' said Lizalor.

Invariablemente, siempre han puesto su fe en las autoridades o en el pasado, nunca en ustedes mismos.

And a woman striding among them like an equal.

If men had their way, every woman would lie down a prostitute and get up a virgin.

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.