Quotes About Empowerment

Mothers need to know what they are feeding their children. They need the freedom to make educated choices at the market.

I think I am a good role model, and a lot of mothers come up to me and they're really happy, and I think if any girl follows their dreams then anything can happen to them.

In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else's mother was staying at home.

You are far less likely to soil your pants and cry for your mother if you're prepared to defend yourself.

I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period.

Re-examine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, and dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem.

I like my body so much better after I had kids. Is that a crazy thing to say? I'm more womanly. I feel sexier.

My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.

My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised.

I love the idea that it doesn't take one person only to achieve your potential. It takes a village, it takes a community, a street, a teacher, a mother.

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

Before I was married to Martin and became a King, I was a proud Scott, shaped by my mother's discernment and my father's strength.

When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.

My mother never said to lose weight. Diets were never a big deal. My mom was always beautiful and voluptuous and curvy, and I always thought she was gorgeous.

I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

All limitations are self-imposed.

It is not in our stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The hard days are what make you stronger.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!

I got my start by giving myself a start.

Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Every human being is an artist, a freedom being, called to participate in transforming and reshaping the conditions, thinking and structures that shape and inform our lives