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Quotes About Empowerment

If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.
~ E. Jean Carroll
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
~ Ronald Reagan
One should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths.
~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo
Just as the world war is no white man's war, but every man's war, so is the struggle for woman suffrage no white woman's struggle, but every woman's struggle.
~ Carrie Chapman Catt
Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.
~ Robert E. Lee
The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands
~ Sun Tzu
A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would solve all problems arising from power.
~ Leopold Kohr
The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.
~ Harriet Ann Jacobs
The most intractable problem today is not pollution or technology or war; but the lack of belief that the future is very much in the hands of the individual.
~ Margaret Mead
Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.
~ Indira Gandhi
Once he [Negro] realizes that [he is at war ], then he can defend himself.
~ Malcolm X
Never let a bully see you scared.
~ Susan Crandall
I wanted to be strong when I went back to Persuasion. Strong and beautiful and totally together. I dreamed of the day I'd get to rub all your faces in my sheer awesomeness.
~ Susan Donovan
Affirmation for Today: I am strong enough to refrain from killing any or all members of my family.
~ Susan Donovan
I deserve to have a share of the universe's infinite abundance.
~ Susan Edwards
His fists clenched at his sides. 'Damn it! Where's your pride?' 'Pride? It's in my heart, of course.' 'You're letting me demean you!' She smiled. 'You can't do that. I can only demean myself.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I'm not living in the shadows anymore. I want to walk in the sun. But I can't do that without you.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
If I were going to put a price tag on my lady parts, I'd find a more appetizing buyer.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Sometimes I think bimbo is just another word men made up so they could feel superior to women who are better at survival than they are.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
What the hell did magic wands have to do with helping girls learn math and science? He'd been good at both. He could have helped them with math and science. Weren't these girls supposed to be building skills? Screw magic wands. He'd have handed out some fucking calculators.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
This is a perfect example of how entirely out of hand the women in this country have gotten. You act like men aren't anything more than extraneous amusements, little toys to keep you entertained.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
I was raised with all the advantages except a backbone.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Has creado esta personalidad alternativa, una mujer tan dura que no le importa la opinión de los demás. Tan dura que se enorgullece de proclamar sus defectos a los cuatro vientos, sólo que estos defectos (no te lo pierdas, ésta es tu auténtica genialidad), estas taras que exhibes a la vista pública, nada tienen que ver con tu verdadera personalidad.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Age might add to a man's power, but it stole from a woman's
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips