Quotes About Empowerment

Trap dictates," Cayenne said. She shrugged. "I don't mind at all. I decide whether or not I'm going to do what he says. If it matters more to him, I do it, if it matters more to me, I don't. It all works out.

You're in love, my old friend, and that is the downfall of all good men." Even Gregori, the dark one, allowed his lifemate her freedom because of her fear of him. How does one strike a balance between keeping a woman happy and protecting her? Aidan mused aloud. Stefan shrugged. You're in the modern world now, Aidan. Women rule their own lives. They make their own decisions and generally drive us all crazy. Welcome to the twenty-first century.

She wasn't ever going to be that woman regulated to the background.

Would you stay out of my head? Wait until you're invited." If I waited for an invitation from you, little red hair, I would be centuries old before it ever came about.

Go back to sleep, you big baby. I can handle things just fine, thank you very much, without any great big he-man to protect me. I would much prefer that you return to the safety of the inn until I rise. There was the merest hint of command in his voice. He was trying to soften his manner with her, and she found herself smiling at his efforts. It isn't going to happen, so learn to live with it. American women are very difficult.

I will admit, I prefer to be the one to care for you, but I want you to know that you are capable of standing on your own two feet always. The vampire took that from you, but I intend to give it back to you. You are not without your own power, Elisabeta. You will learn, with time, to believe in yourself. To know you're strong. I want that for you.

Cheating? It just says he's really nothing and he doesn't respect himself or me. I'd rather live on my own.

She was known as QBSITDROH She rattled off the letters fast as if she'd used them often. [...] You'll have to teach your special name to sisters-in-law. They occasionally need a humorous way to cope. What does it stand for? Queen bitch spawned in the deepest recesses of hell.

We didn't start the sexual revolution but I think we gave it a good kick in the pants!

Can you realize what success for me will mean to literally thousands of people? For I am not alone in this affliction. It may mean new hope and life to so many people. I think we (the doctors and I) are fighting this the right way--make the body fit the soul, rather than vice versa. For me, it is the heart, the look in the eyes, tone of voice, and the way one thinks that makes the real person.

Daß er aussichtsreiche Positionen in der Programmindustrie gegen die Ruinen und Weiden Horse Islands getauscht hatte, war vielleicht dem einfachen Umstand zuzuschreiben, daß ihn die meisten Grenzen empörten – es sei denn, sie hatten die Gestalt eines Strandes.

Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains.

The only known cure for poverty is emancipation of women

If anyone's interested in the alleviation of poverty... the only thing we know definitely works is giving women control over their own reproduction

How sad to be a woman—not to know Aught of the glory of this breast of snow, All unconcerned to comb this mighty hair; To be a woman and yet never know! Were I a woman, I would all day long Sing my own beauty in some holy song, Bend low before it, hushed and half afraid, And say "I am a woman" all day long.

Only servility requires the realm of illusion.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself, much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

the few heroic sluts on this great working-girl turf

Friedrich Nietzsche: Was mich nicht umbringt macht mich st

Find a society that's adopted the teachings of Spinoza, Voltaire, Galileo, Einstein, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson and gone down the pits—as a result of doing that—into famine and war and dictatorship and torture and repression. That's the experiment I would like to run. I don't think that's going to end up with a gulag.

It is hardly a surprise if religions choose to address themselves first to the majority who are poor and bewildered and uneducated.

Deprivation of the ability to speak is more like an attack of impotence, or the amputation of part of the personality. To a great degree, in public and in private, I 'was' my voice.

I have nothing, so I am slave to nothing. I have nothing to do, so nothing makes me its slave.