Quotes About Empowerment

In the world of the future, children will be taught the basic dynamics of self-esteem and the power of living consciously and self-responsibly.

Self-assertiveness" without consciousness is not self-assertiveness; it is drunk-driving.

Freedom means change; the ability to manage change is at least in part a function of self-esteem.

When we expand the boundaries of our ability to cope, we expand self-efficacy and self-respect.

In the ultimate sense, I accept my aloneness. That is, I accept that no one is coming to make my life right, or save me, or redeem my childhood, or rescue me from the consequences of my choices and actions.

The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within.

To practice self-responsibility is to think for oneself.

Living consciously is both a cause and an effect of self-efficacy and self-respect.

I thought: Freedom means change; the ability to manage change is at least in part a function of self-esteem. Sooner or later, all roads lead to self-esteem.

Independence is reliance upon our own mind and judgment, the acceptance of intellectual responsibility for our own existence.

When we do not express ourselves, do not assert our being, do not stand up for our values in contexts where it is appropriate to do so, we inflict wounds on our sense of self. The world does not do it to us, we do it to ourselves.

No, my little Pearl! Thou must gather thine own sunshine. I have none to give thee.

When high school girls like us freak out, people are always able to overpower us before we do something stupid, like hijacking a bus or running around with a knife. Which is why girls arm themselves beforehand so they don't get caught up in something like that. Boys probably aren't so good at protecting themselves.

Solidarity between women can be a powerful force of change, and can influence future development in ways favourable not only to women but also to men.

How many were the years of my life that went by before my body, and my self became really mine, to do with them as I wished? How many were the years of my life that were lost before I tore my body and my self away from the people who held me in their grasp since the very first day?

Interviewer: What would you say to a woman in this country who assumes she is no longer oppressed, who believes women's liberation has been achieved? el Saadawi: Well I would think she is blind. Like many people who are blind to gender problems, to class problems, to international problems. She's blind to what's happening to her.

Words should not seek to please, to hide the wounds in our bodies, or the shameful moments in our lives. They may hurt, give us pain, but they can also provoke us to question what we have accepted for thousands of years.

Part of Walt's secret was that in insisting on quality from individuals of whom it had never been required, he inspired commitment.

I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. —WILLIAM BLAKE, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

the most powerful source of his appeal as well as his greatest legacy may be that Walt Disney, more than any other American artist, defined the terms of wish fulfillment and demonstrated on a grand scale to his fellow Americans, and ultimately to the entire world, how one could be empowered by fantasy—how one could learn, in effect, to live within one's own illusions and even to transform the world into those illusions.

I don't know what happens to our consciousness when we're unwound, says Connor. I don't even know when that consciousness starts. But I do know this. He pauses to make sure all of them are listening. We have a right to our lives! The kids go wild. We have a right to choose what happens to our bodies! The cheers reach fever pitch. We deserve a world where both those things are possible— and it's our job to help make that world.

You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.

Hayden shouts, To the new Teen Uprising!

I am what you made me