Quotes About Empowerment

Jas once heard the story that the Jedi constructed their own lightsabers and she figured, well, why can't she do the same with her rifle? So she did. Because she can do whatever she wants.

Men always want to put us in boxes," Miranda says finally. "They want to keep us there, out of sight, out of mind. Make our limbs weak so we can't fight back. They would very much prefer us to be props—a rack, perhaps, to hold up their hats, a shelf to display their trophies.

Tell me to smile, and I'll show you my teeth.)

Just remember: there is no Muse, and if there is a Muse, you own it – it doesn't own you.)

It made no difference what nationality or color or sex or class a person was. The suffering was the same.

I'd spent so many years doing things I didn't really want to do for people I didn't really like.

But if you truly want to reinvent your life, you're going to have to learn to say yes. Even if it feels selfish. Or scary.

We're completely invisible. I thought it wasn't true, or not true of me, but I've learned I am no different at all. The question now is how to work it, how to use that invisibility, to make it burn.

Sometimes I felt that growing up and being a girl was about learning to be afraid.

Kneel forward." Jess lifted her head and braced her hands, palms flat against the mat as she lifted herself into position.

slowly lowered herself to the mat. She placed her hands, palms up, on her thighs and spread her knees. Arching her back, she gave them all a lovely view of her cunt, all the while keeping her eyes properly downcast.

I can't do much yet, but even if I can do a little to help ... I want to give it all I have! If a person doesn't do anything, they never get any better. Doing one little thing, taking one little step forward ... I gotta believe it will help build a better future!

Girls are always at their best smiling.

But then, crying when you need to cry is another way to show strength.

I said it before-the only one who can decide is the person herself. I did all I could. From here on out, it's up to her.

How was she to tie herself to a man without permitting him to imprison her? And was there some means of acquiring things without those things possessing her?

More than churches full of people, God wants (and the world needs) people full of the Spirit. Let

Goethe: "Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

But instead of telling him what to think, I taught him how to think. He then reached a bold decision about what to do, on his own.

If a woman's going into battle, she's got to have the proper footwear.

Instead of shutting ourselves off in fear, becoming victims—part of the problem—we became a solution.

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave. —Mo Willems, Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs

I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.