Quotes About Empowerment

the circle of women coming together to celebrate being alive—and being a woman, which is a magic all its own.

She wanted to be free, and if she could never be free, at least she wanted to be brave - brave enough not to sell herself, no matter what the payment, or the cost of refusing.

She was the goddess of... herself . And he could not look away from her.

Oye! Puede que mi cuerpo sea pequeño, pero mi espíritu es grande. Por eso llevo zapatos con plataforma. Para estar a la altura de mi alma.

Milquetoast girls raised on princess stories might sit tight and bat their eyelashes in desperate Morse code--notice me, like me, please--but I am not that girl.

She didn't need a Taser; she was more than capable of defending herself without electricity. She'd had an unusual education.

Ves lo que pasa cuando titubeas? Que otros toman las decisiones por ti.

Why should we have to disappear just because men are animals?

She wore her ferocity like armor, and it was purely asexual armor. Liraz was untouchable and untouched.

She was the goddess of... herself.

he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a tool. One's own life: an instrument for shaping the world.

There, there," consoled Lazlo. "You're a very fierce warrior. Don't cry. You're terrifying.

She looked across the street at herself—as seen, remembered, and conjured by the dreamer—and she didn't see obscenity, or calamity, or godspawn. She saw a proud, smiling girl with beautiful blue skin. Because that was what he saw, and this was his mind.

He said, "You don't have to be afraid, Karou. How could it be awful? It's *you.* You can only be beautiful.

Fertility, sexuality, strength, and the ability to create and nurture life: These were the powers of women ... It was a ripening, yes, but not just for the purpose of bearing children, or being a wife. It represented a claiming of one's self...

Drawing had always been how she processed things. Once they were on paper they were hers, and she could decide what power they would hold over her.

You don't have to be ashamed »

Pedir ayuda no implica debilidad.

Det var genom teckningen hon bearbetade saker. När de väl fästs på papper var de hennes och då kunde hon bestämma vilken makt de hade över henne (s. 109).

In one vital way, though, she was different. She would never again allow weakness or softness, fear or ineptitude to hold her frozen. She hadn't known yet what she was capable of.

May she be her best possible self," because it seemed, in that moment, to be the truest of all wishes—not a betrayal of self that came from coveting others, but a deepening of self. A ripening. When

E é assim que você segue em frente. Você dá risada das partes sombrias. Quanto mais partes sombrias, mais você tem de rir. Com rebeldia, com despreocupação, com histeria, da forma como puder.

Have you tried this treatment for female baldness? I hear it's life-changing.

Small! I'm mot going to be small anymore. I'm going to be a dragon, with wings like lacquer fans and jets of fire breath for roasting up goose suppers midair!" Pippin spread out her arms, imagining them wings. Why not? she asked herself.