Quotes About Empowerment

I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.

Having achieved my own dreams, I want to give to kids who are less fortunate, who struggle with everyday obstacles. I want to give them something positive in their lives: support.

Sweat has the power to end a pity party in such a way that even the hostess is happy.

Running has taken me in and continues to comfort, heal, and challenge me in all kinds of magical ways. I am not a good runner because I am me; I am a good me because I am a runner.

Embrace your sweat. It is your essence and your emancipation.

If you stopped yourself every single time you were about to say, "I have to" and changed it to "I get to," it might change your entire experience.

I'm glad to be here right now, poking at my threshold. I want to get more comfortable being uncomfortable. I want to get more confident being uncertain. I don't want to shrink back just because something isn't easy. I want to push back, and make more room in the area between I can't and I can. Maybe that spot is called I will.

If we write our dreams and goals down, we dramatically increase our odds of realization. If we share them with others, they become potent and alive.

Some women are meant to be rescued and romanced. Others, like me, are meant to take notes.

Katsa sat in the darkness of the Sunderan forest and understood three truths. She loved Po. She wanted Po. And she could never be anyone's but her own.

How absurd it was that in all seven kingdoms, the weakest and most vulnerable of people - girls, women - went unarmed and were taught nothing of fighting, while the strong were trained to the highest reaches of their skill.

It wasn't the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it.

Books had always been her solace; novels gave her the space to be bold, brave, beautiful, if only in her own imagination.

life—and the law—is hard on women. Sometimes doing the right thing is no help at all.

It's not a date. I bought my own drink and I didn't shave my legs.

It doesn't hurt, it's just my body. They can't touch my soul.

Why was it so easy for men in the world to do as they wanted and so difficult for women?

It's never good to sit around and wait for someone of something to change your life.

Oh, Mia. You haven't even begun to find out who you really are, and, believe me, other boys are going to fall in love with you. If a guy can't see how special you are, he isn't good enough for you.

Ah, Elsa. You got a wrong picture of yourself. Even if that is true, what does a person do about it? The things your parents say and the things your husband doesn't say become a mirror, don't they? You see yourself as they see you. and no mater how far you come, you bring that mirror with you. Break it, Jean said. How? With a gosh dang rock. Jean leaned forward. I'm a mirror too, Elsa. You remember that.

She thought: It doesn't hurt, it's just my body. They can't touch my soul. It had become her mantra.

It's never good to sit around and wait for someone or something to change your life.

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE.

But it had gotten so boring, all that crying and wanting and needing. This year she'd realized that she'd never be like her mom, and the realization had freed her. She stopped trying to get good grades and make good friends, and do everything well. She had flourished in her rebellion, reveled in it.