Quotes About Empowerment

Real women didn't wait for their dragon slayers to come save them.

Jane studied him for the longest time. "What you did or didn't do doesn't matter to me. Because as far as I'm concerned, you're a free male as of right now.

Being female was not a disability in any sense of the word. But he had treated it as such, hadn't he. He had decided that because she was not male, in spite of all her qualifications and skills, she couldn't go out into conflict. As if breasts suddenly made shit more dangerous.

Honey, I live in heels.

You were the backbone of the person I became, the person I always wanted to be.

Then quit sitting here like a whiny pussy and go do something about it.

I pushed. You have a right to push back.

I think you can do whatever you want to with me.

I don't like being told what to do.

Torturing yourself for what you cannot do prevents you from achieving all you can do. It is that simple.

How many dragons does a girl have to slay to get some respect around here?

Life is the great civil rights issue of our day

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.

you are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration

She is giving me my life back and not claiming it for herself as so many of the women you love do claim.

Whatever anyone does,/ anyone says, in the/ past, now, everything, let/ it bounce off the rock/ of yr gladness (yr mirror)

My aunt once said the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

Revolutionary consciousness is to be found / Among the most ruthlessly exploited classes:

One night in a meditation vision Avalokitesvara the Hearer and Answerer of Prayer said to me 'You are empowered to remind people that they are utterly free' so I laid my hand on myself to remind myself first and then felt gay, yelled 'Ta,' opened my eyes, and a shooting star shot.

Infinite ambition and infinite loneliness, receiving neither help nor sympathy, I did it all for myself--navigation, mathematics, science, literature and what not. And history tells of opportunity that came to the slaves who rose to the purple. No man makes opportunity. All the great men ever did was to know it when it came to them.

There is a greater strength than wealth, and it is greater because it cannot be taken away. Our strength, the strength of the proletariat, is in our muscles, in our hands to cast ballots, in our fingers to pull triggers.

'Twilight' is reaching so many people, and I think it's a really good step in the right direction for diversity and opening up doors.