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Quotes About Empowerment

I don't remember, and I don't want to remember. I've been a victim, and once you have, you need to do whatever it takes not to be one again
~ J.D. Robb
Okay." Mavis nodded decisively. "Then you tear it down. You don't take no for an answer. You nag and you pick and you stick until it pops out of him. Whatever it is. Girls are good at this, Dallas." "I'm not good at being a girl." "Sure you are. You're your own kind of girl. Think of it as kicking his ass until he cracks.
~ J.D. Robb
Traffic was a bitch, but, then again, Eve thought, so was she.
~ J.D. Robb
I read this article about how what you wear under your clothes is all about what makes you feel empowered and in control. It's the Under You.
~ J.D. Robb
Whatever came before, whatever comes after, I know what love is because of you." He took her free hand. "Whatever came before, whatever comes after, it's you who've shown me love changes everything. Lifts everything. Gives everything.
~ J.D. Robb
He coordinated his socks and underwear, she commented when Peabody came back in. Colors and patterns. Who does that, and why? I read this article about how what you wear under your clothes is all about what makes you feel empowered and in control. It's the Under You. If wearing matching boxers and socks make you feel empowered, you're a weenie.
~ J.D. Robb
It would be sheer hell to be privy to thoughts and memories without some power to control and block. I don't like to pry into personal thoughts. And it hurts
~ J.D. Robb
Because you believed in me, you pushed me, and you taught me, I've got it." "That's not entirely untrue." Eve tipped the chair back, put the heel of one boot on the desk. "But if you hadn't believed in yourself, pushed yourself, and learned, I wouldn't have done you a damn bit of
~ J.D. Robb
Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Das Rechtschreibprogramm kann nicht denken [...]. Wenn Sie es dem Rechtschreibprogramm überlassen, über ihr Leben zu bestimmen, dann könnten Sie auch gleich würfeln.
~ J.M. Coetzee
I choose rather to tell of the island, of myself and Cruso and Friday and what we three did there: for I am a free woman who asserts her freedom by telling her story according to her own desire.
~ J.M. Coetzee
No somos estúpidos. Si necesitásemos que nos salvaran, ya nos habríamos salvado a nosotros mismos. No, no somos nosotros los estúpidos, sino sus agudos razonamientos, que solo le proporcionan respuestas equivocadas.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Greer recognised that the direction the sexual revolution was taking was not in the interests of women. "Sex must be rescued from the traffic between powerful and powerless, masterful and mastered, sexual and neutral, to become a form of communication between potent, gentle, tender people," she wrote.
~ J.M.R. Higgs
For fuck's sake, get off the cross. Someone else needs the wood.
~ J.R. Ward
Gimme an S! A T! An O! A C! Followed by a K-H-O-L-M! What's it spell? HEAD FUCK. - Jane
~ J.R. Ward
Pull up your big girl panties and just do it.
~ J.R. Ward
All right, then, her first rule for the rest of her days: no more looking outside for definitions. She might not have any clue who she was, but better to be lost and searching than shoved into a social box by someone else.
~ J.R. Ward
You're not half the male you could be because of what was done to you. You're twice what anyone else is because you survived.
~ J.R. Ward
Bottom line? As much as you wanted someone to change and believed they could, they were in control of their life. Not you. And you could throw yourself against the wall of their choices until you were black-and-blue and dizzy as hell, but unless they decided to take a different road, the outcome wasn't going to be what you wanted.
~ J.R. Ward
Payne nailing him in the face woke him up. George brought him back his independence. But Beth handed him his crown.
~ J.R. Ward
Put on your big girl pants and deal.
~ J.R. Ward
Marie-Therese : Something needs to be done about that gentleman caller of hers. Xhex : Something was, but it didn't go far enough. And if he's a gentleman, I'm Estée fucking Lauder.
~ J.R. Ward
That's the problem with white horses. You have to pay for them yourself or you'll always be using someone else's reins.
~ J.R. Ward
Life was what you determined it to be; regardless of where fate put you, logic and free will meant you could make your cabbage patch anything the fuck you wanted.
~ J.R. Ward