Quotes About Empowerment

It should have been as easy as an elementary math equation: he hits you x broken bones = leave him.

She hadn't realized how much she'd needed a dream, but it had transformed her, changed her from poor motherless and abandoned Tully to a girl poised to take on the world. The goal made her life story unimportant, gave her something to reach for, to hang on to

She knew suddenly that a woman could change her whole life and uproot her existence with one choice. Taking

It's never good to sit around and wait for someone or something to change your life. That's why women like Gloria Steinem are burning their bras and marching on Washington.

They couldn't touch my heart. They couldn't change who I was inside. My body Ã¢â'¬Â¦ they broke that in the first days, but not my heart, V. Whatever he did, it was to your body, and your body will heal.

I am stronger than I use to be." As I say the words, I realize the truth of them. I am stronger now. Strong enough to reach for this dream...and strong enough to handle disappointment.

Loreda wanted to be angry. What had Jack said to her the first day they met? You have fire in you, kid. Don't let the bastards snuff it out. Something like that. Loreda didn't want to be the kind of woman who suffered in silence. Refused to be.

Jack believed in things and fought to make the world a better place. He was the kind of man a girl could count on.

All my life I've been told to make no noise, don't want too much, be grateful for any scrap that came my way. And I've done that. I thought if I just did what women are supposed to do and played by the rules, it would Ã¢â'¬Â¦ I don't know Ã¢â'¬Â¦ change. But the way we're treated…" "It's unfair," he said. "It's wrong," she said. "This

Quit pouting, girl. All a Milquetoast ever gets is wet.

This book is dedicated to "us." The girls. Friends who see one another through the hard times, big and small, year in and year out.

Women wrote their names on scraps of paper or cloth and shoved them through cracks in the carriage walls, hoping against hope to be remembered.

A man. It was always about the men. They seem to think it meant nothing to cook and clean and bear children and tend gardens. But we women of the Great Plains worked from sunup to sundown, too, toiled on wheat farms until we were as dry and baked as the land we loved.

It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it. "Yes.

You're always talking about my future. Your big dreams for me. College. How do you think I'm going to get there, Mom? By picking cotton in the fall and starving in the winter? By living on the dole?" Loreda moved forward. "Think about the women who fought for the vote. They had to be scared, too, but they marched for change, even if it meant going to jail. And now we can vote. Sometimes the end is worth any sacrifice.

He renamed her, just like that, turned her into a different woman.

Do you ever get tired of being strong?" "Oh, honey, of course.

Elsa heard the message but didn't care, and not caring felt good. Almost exhilarating, in fact. For once, she had not let someone else tell her where she belonged.

Mama had chosen to dig for treasure through the dirt of Dad's toxic, porous love, but not Leni. Not anymore.

She knew suddenly that a woman could change her whole life and uproot her existence with one choice.

Teach the boys how to be gentlemen and Marah how to be strong.

You gave me wings, Mom. Did you know that? I feel you here. Will I always?

warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to

Who you mom is and how she lives her life isn't a reflection of you. You can make your own choices. And there's nothing for you to be ashamed of. But you'll have to dream big, Tully.