Quotes About Empowerment

Every woman should see herself looking uniquely breathtaking, in something tailored to celebrate her body, so that she is better able to appreciate her own beauty and better equipped to withstand the ideals of our narrow-waisted, narrow- minded culture.

A girl doesn't need a guy in her life in order to act like a complete idiot. Certainly I, at least, never have.

You scare them, Ma," Isaac says. Why? Because I made them all sign confidentiality agreements? Because I speak my mind and know exactly what I want? Why should I pretend people are doing me a favor when I'm paying them? I have no use for that sort of nonsense. Once

She wanted an Angel of Music . . . an angel who would make her believe in herself at last. I'd been the Angel of Doom for the khanum. There was no reason in the world why I could not be the Angel of Music for Christine. I couldn't hope to be a man to her, I couldn't ever be a real, breathing, living man waking at her side and reaching out for her . . . But I could be her angel' -Erik

You're only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that's the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won't but you can't define yourself by their opinions.

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

The whole point of becoming an adult is to achieve self-reliance.

Your past can only hurt you if you allow it into your present and your future.

You got in over your head. That happens. You have to learn when to call for help. That's when you are strong.

I have called you back from the ends of the earth so you can serve Me. For I have chosen you and will not throw you away. Don't be afraid, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. I will help you. I will uphold you with My victorious right hand.

Seriously, don't be afraid to allow grace to transform your life.

Forgiveness isn't for the person you're forgiving, Echo. It's for yourself. It's what you do to be set free.

God made you the way he did for a reason. Go, be awesome.

Having words opened up a world of possibilities for Martha.

I don't want my destiny handed to me. I want to choose it.

The key is to never let someone else tell you what to think.

That's what we did, didn't we, Audrey? We learned to be brave when it was easier to be afraid.

with courage and resolve and the refusal to allow those without voices to remain unheard.

Nice* was a word that I'd not been able to say in such a long time, and it encompassed so much in that moment. It truly did. *Nice* is a throwaway word until it's not.

When we trust someone, we believe what they tell us is true. We experience it as being true. It's not the experience itself that empowers us to believe it. It is the trust.

Before you can learn anything else, your teachers must have taught you that your voice matters.

I loved wandering around the bookshelves, scanning the spines until something happened to catch my eye. Those visits were dreamy, frictionless interludes that promised I would leave richer than I arrived. It wasn't like going to a store with my mom, which guaranteed a tug-of-war between what I wanted and what my mother was willing to buy me; in the library I could have anything I wanted.

Szabo reckoned that the future of libraries was a combination of a people's university, a community hub, and an information base, happily partnered with the Internet rather than in competition with it. In practical terms, Szabo felt the library should begin offering classes and voter registration and literacy programs and story times and speaker series and homeless outreach and business services and computer access and movie rentals and e-book loans and a nice gift shop. Also, books.

People wanted so much from the library. They wanted it to solve things for them. They wanted the library to fix them and teach them how to fix their lives.