Quotes About Empowerment

She's the light. Before, you can fumble around in the dark or manage in the dim. You don't even know it's dim because that's the way it's always been. But then, she's the light. Everything changes. If the light shuts off, or worse, you're stupid enough to shut it off yourself, it's a hell of a lot darker than before.

You didn't hurt me, the situation did. And now that I know why I felt that way, it won't hurt.

I admire independence. The world would be a stronger place if we were all capable of handling life on our own. But being capable of it doesn't mean being unable to share and depend on someone else. It shouldn't mean being unwilling to. That's the romance.

Stop thinking of yourself as a reflection of what a man saw in you, andbe. I asked you if it bothered you that people will talk. I wish you'd said the hell with people. Let them talk. It's time you gave them something to talk about.

Education's supposed to be more than learning--leastways that's how we were taught. It's supposed to help build your character and help teach you how to get on in the world. If it tells you that you get booted for doing what you had to do, for standing up for yourself, then something's wrong with the system.

If you didn't let a man mean too much, you wouldn't be too hurt when he went away. But that didn't mean you had to stop living too. Even if you didn't jump off a cliff there were other ways to end life.

Why do we go to all this trouble' Parker asked. 'Men don't notice anyway.' 'Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move. Get dressed, smoke the eyes. You'll know you look good so you'll feel good. You'll have a better time.

He does as he pleases and no more. He's the most successful man I know.

I am what I am and I can't change it. I know how to cope and how to get by. I don't want or expect anyone to stand with me. I don't need anyone to. I've learned to accept my life just the way it is, and I don't give a damn if you or anyone else doesn't.

Men like him were so used to getting their own way with a quick smile, a murmured word, they didn't know how to act with a woman who stood firmly on her own feet.

She had, for too many years, found it easier to bend than to stand.

She wasn't the type to sit around ticking off the negatives of her life to see if she could make them outweigh the positives. If something was wrong, something was missing, she acted. Fix the problem and move ahead. Or if the problem couldn't be fixed, she found the best way to live with it.

I know how to take care of myself." "No question. You know how to take care of yourself and everybody else. You don't know how, apparently, to let someone take care of you. That's conceit." She slapped the glass on the counter. "It's independence and capability." "To a point, it is. Then it tips over into conceit, and stubbornness.

No, Bailey, you're not a coward, but you're constantly worried that you are. You're a champion worrier. And a woman, I think, who gives herself very little credit for her strengths, and has very little tolerance for her weaknesses. Self-judgmental.

Shut up. You Matter. That's it.

Lived their lives as they chose to live. That's a real victory, don't you think, living as you choose to live?

I've got a black belt in tae kwon do." When she lowered into a fighting stance, Callen could only wonder. "I took it all through college." "And I have a mighty and fatally accurate bitch slap," Jessica added.

It hurts now, and the pain's real, so hugs, my treasure. But give it a few weeks, and you'll realize he's just another asshole. Kick butt and namaste.

From this day forward, she thought, this was home. One she'd make herself, for herself. This was her life, one she'd live as she wanted. If that wasn't magick, what was?

Then again, she reminded herself, if she wanted Nick to take her seriously as a woman, she had to take herself seriously first.

Girl, take it from an old queen: be who you are and the hell with the rest.

She was a grown woman, capable of making her own decisions. She wasn't stupid and she wasn't helpless.

to the woman

You only have to be alone when you want to be alone.