Quotes About Empowerment

The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.

Not every skin-teeth is a smile 'Massa' if you see me smiling when you pass if you see me bending when you ask Know that I smile know that I bend only the better to rise and strike again

Let her live in the air,' said Peter. 'I bet you do. Let her love her body.' 'Let her,' said Anna sadly.

Women should stick together. Didn't you learn anything yet?

Dressing femme to the nines and then hanging on the arm of another woman all night—a fuck-you to straight men—can feel electrifying. And butch confidence, the grit to invert every traditional way a woman is supposed to look is wholly contagious.

God, how much easier it would be, I felt, if coming out were something that just happened to me . For queerness to seek me out, and not the other way around. To be a passive observer in my personal journey than to participate in my own life.

Os livros idiotas animam a gente. Se não fossem eles, nem sei quem se atreveria a começar.

Bad spellers of the world, untie!

Why can't our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?

she hadn't realised how much she missed the company of women who laughed, women who spoke their own minds, women who didn't give a shit for anything.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

You have given them an ideal to aspire to, embodied their highest aspirations. They will race, and stumble, and fall and crawl....and curse....and finally.... They will join you in the sun, Kal-El. They will stumble, they will fall. But in time, they will join you in the sun. In time you will help them accomplish wonders.

This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress becomes manageable.

Changing our diet is something we choose to do, not something we are forced to do. Instead of dreading it, try saying, Here's another thing I get to do to help myself. Great!

To see the awful things is to see life as it really is. It makes you sharper, stronger, superior. You can stand it when others cannot.

You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don't need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.

You picked a lemon, throw it away lemonade is overrated. Freaks should remain at the circus, not in your apartment. You already have one asshole. You don't need another. Make a space in your life for the glorious things you deserve. Have faith.

I'm tired of seeing great women in bullshit relationships.

You need to own your feelings. Get more comfortable expressing yourself." "How about I express you out the nearest window?

There was still hope. I still had a chance to resurrect myself. I'd just have to do it consciously, every step of the way.

This was her last chance at the closest thing to freedom: her will, her actions, and the outcome in the world could all be in harmony.

I want you to gain power over what happened to you instead of letting it have power over you.

Even a slave may rise from the dust, and whet his gaze into a knife, and tell his master, "You will never own me.