Quotes About Empowerment

Long ago I understood that it wasn't merely my being a woman that was preventing my being welcomed into the world of what I long thought of as my peers. It was that I had succeeded in an undertaking few men have even attempted: I have become myself.

There is a potential heroine in every woman.

Christabel Pankhurst

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

Whether there are innately female leadership styles ... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

I am learning that if I just go on accepting the framework for life that others have given me, if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I will be unable to recognize that which I have the power to change.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

No one can really pull you up very high-you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains.

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Being black does not stop you. You can sit out in the world and say, "Well, white people kept me back, and I can't do this." Not so. You can have anything you want if you make up your mind and you want it.

Men are made stronger on realization that the helping hand they need is at the end of their own arm.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all of life's greatest tests alone.

Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Independence is happiness.

Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.

If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.

No man may make another free.

My future is one I must make myself.