Quotes About Empowerment

It's all about how he saves her — not from the dragon but from herself.

Put on your big girl panties and deal with it.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

Scars tell us more about the future than the past, about how we can live strong despite any pain we've been through.

Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you are stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.

There are plenty of people holding flashlights casting shadows, offering directions. Perhaps it's best if you light your own way.

Do not fear a life without the presence of those who gave up on you. Instead, fear a life where you have abandoned yourself.

Decorate yourself from the inside out.

Knowing who you are is the best defense against who they think you are.

A smile is the best defense against this offensive world.

Diamonds may have been a girl's best friend in an era when a woman's only hope of having a high family income was to marry a man who was well-off, but today, marketable skills that will enable a woman to command a good income over her lifetime are a better investment.

Work is not peripheral to women's sense of Mastery, it is central. Women do not fully develop their capacities if they function primarily in the sphere of feelings and emotion; the idea that a man is what he does and a woman is what she feels is archaic. If work per se is important to a woman's well-being, so too is the quality of her work life.

The more a woman likes her job, the better her self-image and the more she enjoys her life.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Our challenge, as we enter the new millennium, is to deepen the commonalities and the bonds between these tens of millions, while at the same time continuing to address the issues within our local communities by two-sided struggles that not only say "No" to the existing power structure but also empower our constituencies to embrace the power within each of us to crease the world anew.

We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We urgently need to bring the neighbor back into our hoods, not only in our inner cities but also in our suburbs, our gated communities, on Main Street and Wall Street, and on Ivy League campuses.

If we want to see change in our lives, we have to change things ourselves.

A revolution that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.

In the 1950s I rarely went to a community meeting without Jimmy and would usually just listen or ask questions. Now, having worked in the city and socialized with Jimmy's friends and Correspondence readers for years, I felt I had something to contribute. I was beginning to feel comfortable with the we pronoun, so comfortable that in FBI records of that period I am described as Afro-Chinese.

I was a Chinese American, an ethnic minority so small as to be almost invisible. He was an African American who was very conscious that the blood and sweat of his ancestors had made possible the rapid economic development of this country and who had already embarked on the struggle to ensure that his people would be among those deciding its economic and political future.

Transform Yourself to Transform the World

Grace Lee Boggs

You do not know what you can do with God's help, or rather what God can do with your help.