Quotes About Empowerment

These are Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I am Tyler's mouth. I am Tyler's hands.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel so strong. You save people by letting them save you.

The sixth rule of Fight Club: No shirt, no shoes.

I suppose it's a comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse damage to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.

If you can change the way people think, she said.The way they see themselves.The way they see the world.If you do that, you can change the way people live their lives.And that's the only lasting thing you can create.

My hips bristle with totems and talismans, proof that I am not simply a character in a fixed book or film. I am no single narrative. As neither Rebecca de Winter nor Jane Eyre, I am free to revise my story, to reinvent myself, my world, at any given moment.

We, each of us, can take control of the world.

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people.

You can't be beautiful until you feel beautiful.

You can't be beautiful, Brandy says about a thousand times, until you feel beautiful.

I suppose it's a comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse damage to yourself then the world will ever dare inflict.

By bitching and bitching and bitching, they could exhaust the drama of their own horror stories. Grow bored. Only then could they accept a new story for their lives. Move forward.

There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

Nuestro deber es enseñar a esos hombres y mujeres la libertad a través de la esclavitud; y el coraje a través del miedo.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us.

It's only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, that you're free to do anything." What I'm feeling

Torture is torture and humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer

Lo mejor que nos podría ocurrir, es que nos despidieran. De esa forma dejaríamos de intentar ir tirando y haríamos algo de provecho con nuestras vidas.

Most guys are at fight club because of something they're too scared to fight. After a few fights, you're afraid a lot less.

Evie says, "It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed." I write: i know girls who say that about their dildos.

Possiamo passare la vita a farci dire dal mondo cosa siamo. Sani di mente o pazzi. Stinchi di santo o sessodipendenti. Eroi o vittime. A lasciare che la storia ci spieghi se siamo buoni o cattivi. A lasciare che sia il passato a decidere il nostro futuro. Oppure possiamo scegliere da noi.

Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?

Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.