Quotes About Empowerment

Blood didn't tell. DNA didn't make us. We made ourselves, if we had any guts we made ourselves.

Magick isn't every answer. A body must know how to fend for himself without it as well. A gift should never be squandered on what you can do with your wit and your hands or your back.

Nora Roberts

Then you pick up and go on," she told him simply. "You're only a victim if you choose to be.

when she should have known it was something she had to find for herself.

She left the house and climbed into her pickup, telling herself she would handle whatever needed to be handled.

It was a concept that dazzled her. Doing what she wanted when she wanted, at her own pace and in her own way.

You're a good girl, Jude, but you don't have to be good all the time.

She was, at sixteen years, eight months and twenty-one days, a product of her mother's meticulous and detailed agenda. That was about to change.

Until I learned to accept I was a victim, but I didn't have to stay one. In

It's an unfortunate by-product of a patriarchal society that women are deemed sluttish or cheap for engaging in sex for pleasure while men are considered vital. Virginity shouldn't be a prize to be won, or withheld. The hymen has no rewarding properties, grants no powers. Women should—no, must—be allowed to pursue their own sexual gratification, whether or not procreation is the goal or the relationship a monogamous one, just as a man is free to do so.

The penis is here to stay, so those of us without them must learn to appreciate, exploit, ignore, and/or utilize them, depending on our own needs and goals.

How can I get to be you when I grow up? Why, child, you just learn how to use your mean. We all got it, but not everybody knows how to use it constructive like.

If I want Callie to grow up to be a smart, strong woman, someone who values family and friends, and respects herself, I have to show her. If I want her to know the satisfaction of making something of herself with effort and work, I have to show her.

Apartarse de algo que es bueno para uno es tan escupido como aceptar lo que no nos beneficia.

taught herself not to do—as

People who expect less and to be treated as less often get less.

historically fairy tales were women's stories, passed orally in a time when women didn't have many rights.

Just let me get my suitcase." "Women

Nora Roberts

And she so desperately wanted to be held, soothed, to be promised that her world would snap back into focus again at any moment. But she needed to stand on her own. She could only hope she was the kind of woman who stood on her own feet and faced her own problems.

Be true to yourself, Marco,' he said, 'and anyone who tries to make your truth a lie or shameful isn't worth a single one of your thoughts.

You have all you need. A home, children, work that satisfies you. What do you need with a man?

I bet you have a thing for Johnny Depp. I am alive. I am female. Next question.