Quotes About Empowerment

Your dad cleared out our savings account. And they won't give me a credit card unless your father or my father cosigns." She lit up a cigarette. "Sweet Jesus, it's 1974. I have a job. I make money. And a woman can't get a credit card without a man's signature. It's a man's world, baby girl.

El miedo no era lo que importaba en la vida. Lo importante eran las elecciones que hacías cuando estabas asustada.

Sandra Day O'Conner

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Compromises. You can go around seeing what you did get, or you can focus on what you didn't. The choice you make will ultimately determine what kind of woman you become.

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. You know who you are. Thanks;

in 1974 a grown woman with a job couldn't get a credit card in her name.

She was so tried of begging people to love her

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posters in town, how

Women were integral to the Resistance. Why couldn't men see that?

It doesn't do any good to hide out in life, Mia. That's how you used to handle things. You're stronger now.

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my tongue." "Do more

El miedo no era lo importante en la vida. Lo importante eran las elecciones que hacías cuando estabas asustada. Una era valiente debido al miedo, no a pesar de él.

Men. They always thought everything was about them. But women could stand up for their rights, too; women could hold picket signs and stop the means of production as well as men.

The children had been right that writing helped. Words

Sabes lo que aprendí en los campos? Vianne la miró. —¿Qué? —Que no me pueden tocar el corazón. Que no pueden cambiar quién soy por dentro. Mi cuerpo…, eso lo rompieron los primeros días, pero mi corazón no. Vi, te hiciera lo que te hiciera, fue a tu cuerpo y tu cuerpo sanará.

I belong to a generation that didn't expect to be protected from every danger. I

Woman must come of age by herself Ã¢â'¬Â¦ She must find her true center alone. —Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

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

D'un tratto capì che una donna poteva cambiare tutta la propria vita e sradicare la propria esistenza con una sola scelta".

life is more than what happens to us, Elsa. We have choices to make.

Kristin Hannah