Quotes About Empowerment

Hänellä oli tuo kallisarvoinen kyky, aito naisellinen kyky, tehdä maailma omakseen missä tahansa olikin.

Una mujer debe tener dinero y una habitación propia para poder escribir novelas; y esto, como veis, deja sin resolver el gran problema de la verdadera naturaleza de la mujer y la verdadera naturaleza de la novela.

All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point — a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

I refuse to allow you, Beadle though you are, to turn me off the grass

Kad?nlar yüzy?llar boyunca erkeÄŸin suretini doÄŸal boyutlar?ndan iki kat büyük gösteren sihirli ve enfes bir ayna iÅŸlevi görmüÅŸtür. Åžayet kad?nlar?n bu güçleri olmasayd? dünya herhalde hala batakl?kardan ve vahÅŸi ormanlardan ibaretti.

Zira kad?n hakikat? söylemeye baÅŸlarsa, aynadaki suret küçülür durur; erkeÄŸin hayatla uyumu bozuluverir. Erkek kendini sabah iki kat daha büyük göremedikten sonra art?k nas?l kararlar verebilecek, nas?l yerlileri medenileÅŸtirebilecek, nas?l kanunlar ç?karabilecek, nas?l kitaplar yazabilecek, nas?l giyinip kuÅŸan?p ziyafetlerde ahkam kesebilecektir?

I feel a thousand capacities spring up in me.

bir kad?n eÄŸer kurmaca yazacaksa, paras? ve kendine ait bir odas? olmal?d?r; ve göreceÄŸiniz gibi bu, kad?n?n gerçek doÄŸas?na ve kurmacan?n gerçek doÄŸas?na dair büyük sorunu çözümsüz b?rakmakta.

La libertad intelectual depende de cosas materiales. La poesía depende de la libertad intelectual. Y las mujeres siempre han sido pobres, no sólo durante doscientos años, sino desde el principio de los tiempos.

All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point — 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.

Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote

Virginia Woolf

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.

que una mujer necesita dinero y una habitación propia para dedicarse a la literatura;

Y denota estrechez de miras por parte de sus semejantes más privilegiados el decir que deberían limitarse a hacer postres y hacer calcetines, a tocar el piano y bordar bolsos. Es necio condenarlas o burlarse de ellas cuando tratan de hacer algo más o aprender más cosas de las que la costumbre ha declarado necesarias para su sexo.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt, that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Perché se siamo sufficientemente decisi possiamo sbattere fuori casa questa sgualdrina, la Memoria, e tutte le sue carabattole.

Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.

All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment.

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.

Agnes Smedley also knows what the century knows: that we become what is done to us.