Quotes About Empowerment

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.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not for money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better. In

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.

Woman are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.

If you lose your nerve before you hit the bottom you'll never really succeed. Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything.

It's hard to explain to someone who's never had the experience—the unmistakable, life-altering moment when you read a book and realize that someone out in the world has read your mind and put into words all the thoughts and ideas crashing around inside your own head. For me, it was like Don Swanstrom

These chicken chokers. Didn't bother to read any feminist theory beyond that outdated Andrea Dworkin tripe. Nothing sex-positive. Nothing along the lines of Naomi Wolf. I come, therefore I am… No, whether a woman is a concubine to fuck or a damsel to redeem, she's always just some passive object to fulfill a man's purpose.

Want to talk third-wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress.

Ich mag zwar Ich sein, aber das könnte mir nun wirklich nicht passieren, DU zu sein.

Its only after you´ve lost everything that you´re free to do anything.

We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.

What I need to learn to do for myself. To write my own story.

When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them.

your past is just a story. and once you realize this, it has no power over you

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

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

I look like you wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I'm free in all the ways that you are not.

Llegada cierta edad, las mujeres tienen que buscar otra clase de poder. El dinero, por ejemplo. O un arma. Llevo la vida que quiero, me digo, y quiero la vida que llevo. Me digo a mí misma: Me lo merecía. Esto es exactamente lo que quería.

Onlar? köleleÅŸtirerek, bu insanlara özgürlüÄŸün ne demek olduÄŸunu göstermek zorunday?z. Onlar? korkutarak, cesaretin ne olduÄŸunu göstermek zorunday?z.

She wanted a choice beyond: Housewife versus lawyer.

She treats herself as if she is a divine worm born of sand and stone.

Showing it off—and not caring who cared—was a sign of strength. So now she trembles.

Democracy is not in need of defense. People are.