Quotes About Empowerment

Listen, I'm bossy. I can't help it. It's who I am and what I do. I'm pushy and I like to take over. But I'm going to work really hard not to do so much and your going to try and accept me the way I am. Flaws and all. Because I'm good in bed and I can carry heavy things and reach all the high shelves.

Bull. Look, sometimes certain kinds of pain bring important lessons. Those lessons harden you, prepare you for your life and the only way to learn them, the only way to be a better, stronger and yes, harder person to survive the world outside is to learn those lessons first hand. Pain forges strength.

Facing the fear helped. Most days. But the thing about fear was that it ate away at your reason, made you smaller. It was her mini dare each day to come home to this place. To embrace normal and live her own life on her own terms, even if she was afraid. Her life was her own. She made it, and no one would take it from her again.

You know, El, you're so much more than the time you were with Bill and the attack. You took something shitty and you made a new future. Most people don't do that. They hang on forever. It's easy to stay in that pit of despair. Or let it be your excuse for not moving on.

I don't need protection." Not that she minded, of course. She always protected. It's what she did every moment of the day, and that small span of time when he'd protected her had been, well like a present. "Don't need it, no." He gave her the coordinates, and she got moving. "Deservie it, yes.

We're your safe place, El. Me and Elise. The guys. We're your family. You don't need to pull lattes. You have your degree, you have a great job and you'll take the crappy part of your past and use that to help people get to the good part of their future.

I want to hold you and shelter you, but I don't want to dim your light, angel. Do you understand the difference?

My position on what other people think of me is, fuck what other people think.

They don't like you because they can't own you. You're not after all the things they think are important.

Women need to give themselves permission to be a bitch as often as necessary. Being nice doesn't move mountains.

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

You are enough even if you don't see or know it

Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up who they won't come to.

Lauren Myracle

Even so, I was proud of myself for taking action at all. I didn't hide or run away or pretend the ugliness didn't happen. I stood up and said something that was true. I said it out loud, and by doing so, I was standing up for lots of people, not just me.

It's not what the universe gives us that matters. It's what we give the universe.

You've got this light about you. You make people feel special like maybe there's a light in them too.

am Winnie's pee! I thought. Hear me roar!

WE'RE the ones who make things happen. and when crappy things happen anyway, WE choose how to respond.

Tears burned in my eyes as I got to my feet. My face scrunched up and a sound came out of my throat, but even then I didn't leave. I stood there, waiting for her to stop me, and only when she looked away did I realize she already had.

I'd rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I'd rather die loving Alex than live without him.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

We wanted the freedom to love. We wanted the freedom to choose. Now we have to fight for it.

Always remember, you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.