Quotes About Empowerment

I'd rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

Where women are honored, the divinities are pleased. Where they are despised, it is useless to pray to God.

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance

A man may beg, but a woman has to sell.

In this age devoted to completing the French Revolution and to beginning the Human Revolution, equality between the sexes being part of equality between men, a great woman was needed. Woman had to prove that she could have all our manly qualities without losing her angelic ones: that she could be strong without ceasing to be gentle: George Sand is that proof. . . . she bequeathes to us the right of woman which draws its proof from woman's genius.. . . Thus the Revolution is fulfilled.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

The faults of women, of children, of the feeble, the indigent, and the ignorant, are the fault of the husbands, the fathers, the masters, the strong, the rich, and the wise.

To learn to read is to light a fire;

Equality does not mean that all plants must grow to the same height - a society of tall grass and dwarf trees, a jostle of conflicting jealousies. It means, in civic terms, an equal outlet for all talents; in political terms, that all votes will carry the same weight; and in religious terms that all beliefs will enjoy equal rights.

The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all.

long as the three great problems of the century—the degradation of man through pauperism, the corruption of woman through hunger, the crippling of children through lack of light—are unsolved;

Revolution is the accession of the peoples, and, at the bottom, the People is Man.

The real human division is this: the luminous and the shady. To diminish the number of the shady, to augment the number of the luminous,—that is the object. That is why we cry: Education! science! To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles.

Que faut-il pour faire évanouir ces larves? de la lumière. De la lumière à flots. Pas une chauve-souris ne résiste à l'aube. Éclairez la société en dessous.

Cultiven la cabeza del hombre del pueblo, quítenle las malas hierbas, riéguenla, fecúndenla, ilumínenla, llénenla de moralidad, utilícenla: así no tendrán que cortarla

There is nothing like the hand of the populace for building everything that is built by demolishing.

O ódio ao ensino dos filhos do povo era um dogma.

They convert a poor camel-driver into a Mahomet; a peasant girl tending her goats into a Joan of Arc. Solitude generates a certain amount of sublime exaltation.

Elsa said, "You saved me, you know." "Mothers and daughters. We save each other, si?

She could leave them. She could break free and go her own way. It would be frightening, but it couldn't be worse than staying, watching this toxic dance of theirs, letting their world become her world until there was nothing left of her at all, until she was as small as a comma.

Every barrier she turned into a gate.

Isabelle had always simply reacted in her life. Someone left her behind; she followed. Someone told her she couldn't do something; she did it. Every barrier she turned into a gate.

I went in search of my mother's life, and found my own.

Loreda didn't want the kind of love that trapped. She wanted to be told she could fly high, be anything and go anywhere.