Quotes About Empowerment

I learned to get out of the way and let that creative force work through me.

myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me. WILLIAM BLAKE

If it weren't for Julia Child, I might never have moved past brown rice and tofu. Worse, I might still be afraid of being less than perfect.

Don't let the hand you hold hold you down.

I am life, I am strength, I am woman.

But I was made of nows, and my feet level on the promissory earth would not accept walking backwards and went forward, forward, mocking the ashes to reach the kiss of new paths. I Was My Own Route

You put together two people who have not been put together before; and sometimes the world is changed, sometimes not. They may crash and burn, or burn and crash. But sometimes, something new is made, and then the world is changed. Together, in that first exaltation, that first roaring sense of uplift, they are greater than their two separate selves. Together, they see further, and they see more clearly.

Silent or gagged women are powerless women. A powerful woman is one who can speak out to challenge existing power structures or to explore previously taboo territory.

OK, then, well, are you a feminist?' She smiled at me. 'Naturally – I am a woman.

I strive to get what I want and people have always said I am a monster in that department, but that is always said about us ladies who grasp for our own strength.

And as she looked back at him, she felt the serrated edges of her heart in her chest. But also a sort of dizzying vastness: she could face anything now.

Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.

the man of my dreams is a girl.

Stop trying to save me. You couldn't then; you can't now.

Knowledge is freedom and with freedom comes understanding.

Take pride away from a man and you might as well run a knife through his heart.

Julie Garwood

I don't get angry. I get even.

What is left of a woman once her last five pounds are gone?

You may be your own best helper, if you choose the right path.

Why should I be polished and improved like goods for sale? I might not even want to marry! And besides, I have many skills. I can read and write and play the flute and harp. Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn't like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.

The most powerful weapon is hope.

The future was in our own hands. If we wanted a world where such things were possible, it was for us to make it.

Why should I change to please some man? If he doesn't like me the way I am, then he can get some other girl for his wife.