Quotes About Empowerment

Yes, my uterus was removed Ã¢â'¬â€ peritonitis had set in. But it is wonderful. I am no longer bothered with the monthly period.

I'm not going to get married at all,' I said. 'It's too easy to pick the wrong person. I'm going to live all by myself and I'm going to eat all my favourite things every day and stay up as late as I like, and I shall read all day and write stories and draw pictures with no one bothering me or fussing or needing to be looked after.

It's not enough to say that you want equality, Ro. What do you intend to do about it?

I can dance with life again.

She locked the cupboard, took her place in the driver's seat and slipped the pistol into her shoulder bag—if she carried a bag, it would always have enough room to conceal a weapon.

Fear had to be handled with care, managed so it became a tool, not a weight.

I think there is something to be said for a well-publicized ass-kicking.

Nous ne savons pas encore que nous sommes une force, une seule force: tous les habitants, tous les nègres des plaines et des mornes réunis. Un jour, quand nous aurons compris cette vérité, nous nous lèverons d'un point à l'autre du pays et nous ferons l'assemblée générale des gouverneurs de la rosée, le grand coumbite des travailleurs de la terre pour défricher la misère et planter la vie nouvelle.

Good women are the scariest varmints of all.

When fears remain untouched, innate capacities remain undiscovered

A priestess is a woman who helps others connect to the divine so they can heal and/or actualize their soul's unique path.

The modern-day Priestess is a woman who is deeply spiritual, yet her beliefs and practices are typically not rooted in a particular religion. Instead they are informed by practices that resonate with her spiritual truths.

When you are tempted to tell someone what to do, instead ask the question, "What do you think you should do now?" Or in an organizational setting, "What do you think we should do?" This is the only quick tip I have, but believe me, it can work magic. Remember, when tempted to tell, ask instead.

Women like her looked at their world, rolled up their sleeves, and tried to make it better. Now

That's how it gonna be all your life," Julia Cater told her son, and she was preaching old black wisdom, for through the generations that was how black women enabled their sons to survive so that they could grow into black men. Hiram

Chesapeake Bay is like a beautiful woman. There's no humiliation from which she cannot recover.

Because a boy who could read would sooner or later come upon some book that would give him an idea, and a boy with an idea could accomplish almost anything.

Un om trebuie judecat atunci când a dat din el tot ceea ce era de dat, când nu mai poate s?-È™i pun? eÈ™ecurile pe seama defectelor È™i când se bazeaz? pe propria putere pentru a izbândi.

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

No man is hindered by another; he is only hindered by himself. No man suffers because of another; he suffers only because of himself.

He who has conquered weakness, and has put away all selfish thoughts, belongs neither to oppressor nor oppressed. He is free.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses. -James Allen

Man is made or unmade by himself; in the armoury of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself;