Quotes About Empowerment

One does not like to be told that one is naturally the inferior of a little man

when I ask you to earn money and have a room of your own, I am asking you to live in the presence of reality, an invigorating life, it would appear, whether one can impart it or not.

Women's rights, that antediluvian topic.

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

I was fighting with Thoby on the lawn. We were pommelling each other with our fists. Just as I raised my fist to hit him, I felt: why hurt another person? I dropped my hand instantly, and stood there, and let him beat me. I remember the feeling. It was a feeling of hopeless sadness. It was as if I became aware of something terrible; and of my own powerlessness. I slunk off alone, feeling horribly depressed.

She had made him think he could do anything. Nobody else took him seriously. But she made him believe that he could do whatever he wanted.

We think back through our mothers and grandmothers, if we are women.

a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved.

Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women

I need not flatter any man; he has nothing to give me

Judith Shakespeare] lives in you and in me [...] she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh.

Virginia Woolf

Clarissa said she would buy the flowers herself.

Feminism', we have had to destroy.

and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction

purely feminine; with that extraordinary gift, that woman's gift, of making a world of her own wherever she happened to be.

Though the wind is rough and blowing in their faces, those girls there, striding hand in hand, shouting out a song, seem to feel neither cold nor shame. They are hatless. They triumph.

Untuk menikmati kebebasan kita harus mengendalikan diri sendiri.

Ce qu'on attend de l'être avec qui l'on vit c'est qu'il vous maintienne au niveau le plus élevé de vous-même.

she felt herself everywhere; not "here, here, here"; and she tapped the back of the seat; but everywhere. She waved her hand, going up Shaftesbury Avenue. She was all that. So that to know her, or any one, one must seek out the people who completed them; even the places. Odd affinities she had with people she had never spoken to, some woman in the street, some man behind a counter—even trees, or barns.

Una donna deve avere soldi e una stanza suoi propri se vuole scrivere romanzi.

Così si potrebbe sostenere con qualche ragione che sono gli abiti che portano noi, e non noi che portiamo gli abiti; noi possiamo far sì che essi modellino perbene un braccio, o il petto, ma essi modellano il nostro cuore, i nostri cervelli, le nostre lingue a piacer loro.

Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves.

Todo puede suceder cuando la feminidad ya no sea una ocupación protegida.