Quotes About Empowerment

to overcome my own hypersensitivity, I had no choice but to turn fearless.

As mulheres são anarquistas e revolucionárias por natureza.

Maskenfreiheit. It means "the freedom conferred by masks.

if you have to hide your hypersensitivity, are you really a "strong woman"?

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries, because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up.

Back then, and even now, I wonder: Am I "empowered"? If you have to hide your hypersensitivity, are you really a "strong woman"? Sometimes another voice enters my head, shooing these thoughts aside. This one tells me that the only really good performance is one where you make yourself vulnerable while pushing beyond your familiar comfort zone. I liken it to having an intense, hyper-real dream, where you step off a cliff but don't fall to your death. Though

Women's lib does not mean imitating men's worst qualities just so we can lower ourselves and be equal to them.

She quoted First Lady Eleanor Franklin: "Do at least one thing each day that scares you.

Jamal takes a long breath. A tear slides down his cheek. When he squares his shoulders, my heart bursts with pride. He won't let them break him.

I remember when the wave of Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek and these beautiful Hispanic women came into light, and I looked up to them and I loved them, but I was like, 'Where are Middle Eastern women?'

If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.

If I don't feel confident about my body, I'm not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It's all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it's fitness or whatever. It's about getting up, motivating yourself and just doing it.

When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits - anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.

When I loved myself enough, I no longer needed things or people to make me feel safe.

When I loved myself enough, I let the tomboy in me swing off the rope in Jackass Canyon. Yes!

When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs, and habits–anything that kept me small. My judgment called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.

Sometimes, just believing in someone is enough for them to start believing in themselves.

We are alive today to love God, to advance the saving hope of Jesus and to fight for those in our midst who are losing their battle for hope.

Whether you believe you can or whether you believe you can't, you're right!

Places, she told herself, were not evil: they were what people made of them.

I never loved anyone so much that I thought it would last. In fact, I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man's housekeeper. (Susan B. Anthony being interviewed by Nellie Bly)

See, in the Bible it advises to train up a child in the way he should go. I have done that as best as I know how. My job . . . is done. Now your job begins—to seek God's will and stay in it. I trust you to do that.

Because, Mom, I'm really proud of you for finally standing up for yourself and ending things with Daddy.

Certainly, it's important to acknowledge and identify the effects of BPD on your life. It's equally important to realize that it neither dictates who you are nor fixes your destiny.