Quotes About Empowerment

I don't mean this in a stuck-up way, but I needed an attitude song.

Before, I was really passive, all I cared about was being in love with my boyfriend. I didn't have any creative power, nothing. I don't know that person any more.

What shall I give my children? who are poor,Who are adjudged the leastwise of the land.

Big Bessie's feet hurt like nobody's business,but she stands—bigly—under the unruly scrutiny, stands in the wild weed.In the wild weedshe is a citizen.

He opened us—who was a key,who was a man.

Live and go out. Define and medicate the whirlwind.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. It matters what you think of yourself and what your children think. So if anyone is going to ask my advice, I'd say, do what is right for you and don't give a shit what anyone else thinks

Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick

my main goal is to help my team

No, I have no desire to be a feminist, I just want to be a female,

We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.

She alone dares and wishes to know from within, where she, the outcast, has never ceased to hear the resonance of fore-language. She lets the other language speak—the language of 1,000 tongues which knows neither enclosure nor death. To life she refuses nothing. Her language does not contain, it carries; it does not hold back, it makes possible.

To fly/steal is woman's gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.

Every woman has known the torment of getting up to speak. Her heart racing, at times entirely lost for words, ground and language slipping away – that's how daring a feat, how great a transgression it is for a woman to speak – even just open her mouth – in public.

I would like so much to be the freest of free women: so free that I would even be liberated from the painful sensation of being liberated. I would like to be so freely free that I would never even think to say to myself: "How free I am!

The author of what I describe is not myself, it is the Other. First of all it is you, it is the woman, it is the queen, it is the Child, it is a person who is greater than I and who surpasses you as well, whom you do not know. I am your scribe.

Beauty will no longer be forbidden.

And why don't you write?Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it. I know why you haven't written (And why I didn't write before the age of twenty-seven). Because writing is at once too high, too great for you, it's reserved for the great - that is, for "great men"; and it's "silly". Besides, you've written a little, but in secret.

Men have committed the greatest crime against women (...) They have led them to hate women, to be their own enemies.

And I want to become a woman I can love. I want to meet women who love themselves, who are alive, who are not debased, overshadowed, wiped out.

And why don't you write? Write! Writing is for you, you are for you; your body is yours, take it.

Women should break out of the snare of silence. They shouldn't be conned into accepting a domain which is the margin or the harem.

Woman must write herself and bring woman into literature