Quotes About Empowerment

We can handle it.

This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.

You can't go on all the time being whatever's necessary. Youve got to have some conviction, and I'm convinced I don't want to be anyone's underdog.

Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

You can't go on all the time being whatever's necessary. You've got to have some conviction, and I'm convinced I don't want to be anyone's underdog. It's not right for anyone to be that. But once you get used to it, well, it just seems natural and you just carry on. And that's the end of you. You're trapped.

People who fear greatly can sometimes substitute themselves for the thing they fear

Since for most of her life my mother's mind, belonging first to her father and then to her husband, had not been hers to make up, she was finding it difficult to come to a decision

The positive side of willpower is the power to do and to frame all of your I won'ts as being in the service of those higher I wills. Once you do that, you're no longer using your willpower to oppress and disappoint half of yourself. You're using it to create the future self that you really care about. Thus, willpower is really just being as kind as you can to the man you want to become.

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.

You're right.I am crazy. But you know what else? I don't give a fuck.

Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one

Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy

Only God Can Judge Me That which does not kill me can only make me stronger. I don't see why everybody feel as though that they gotta tell me how to live my life

light that guides one person will guide a hundred. Be that light.

Parten del concepto de que el bien debe realizarse aquí, y no más allá de la tumba. Por lo cual, obran sólo para la conquista de este mundo.

Be brave. Be bold. Don't wait for change. Seize your own life and make it.

The little girl, all ears, giggled. "I like that," she said. "Forgiveness, not permission. I'll remember that.

Was it a fact that every man had something in his life which palsied his arm, and struck him helpless in the battle for social justice? When

be yourself." Great-Great-Uncle Eli

It was the kind of silence that fills you with light and makes you believe you can do anything you want.

They both possessed a victimhood that had been conferred because they'd both been guilty of being female in a world where some men believed they deserved never to feel powerless.

Fuck you, Tony. I don't need you. I don't need anyone.

You respect yourself, it makes it harder for others to disrespect you.

Love is an uphill climb, but once you know yourself and like yourself just as you are, it's all downhill from there.