Quotes About Empowerment

The burden isn't on me to explain it, Rich. The burden's on y'all to fix it. Good luck.

Now, I never got married. No, no, no, I ain't one of those funny ladies. I just won't fold myself up tiny so as not to put off no man.

She roller-set Lizette's hair before she went out on her "money dates" (You're for sale—just fucking say it…).

The girl threw up a Black Power fist and bounced.

Know why I have nice skin? No man stressing me out

I like being single," Eva continued quietly. "I don't want anyone to have to really see me.

And I remember that I'm not lonely. I'm alone. When I'm comatose from writing and mothering, when I'm hurting too badly to cook, talk, or smile, I curl up with 'alone' like a security blanket. Alone doesn't care that I don't shave my legs in the winter. Alone never gets disappointed by me." Eva sighed. "It's the best relationship I've ever been in.

Women don't get to be bad boys.

But part of her calm was also knowing that those abysmal final years of their relationship could never happen to the person she was now. There's no way she could let a man make her feel so unseen for so long. Now she knew what it was like to be seen.

This new Eva, the free Eva, was tired of being rattled by life. How long had she lived being rattled by life. How long had she lived being too terrified to show her real self? There was power in showing the messiness of her life and what it took to hold it together.

So instead of writing about Gia, a witch who uses her powers to fight for a man, I'm fighting for myself.

I just won't fold myself up tiny so as not to put off no man.

Men don't define our journey. It's about honoring our queendom. Vibrating at our divine plane.

No one's coming to save you. You have to do it.

She understood it was her job to be whatever he needed—if he wanted to take his time, she was Slow-Mo Flo. If he wanted it fast, she was Quickie Chickie. He fucked her how and when he wanted to.

But what fully realized person doesn't? No one expects men to be flaw-free. Women are expected to absorb traumas both subtle and loud and move on. Shoulder the weight of the world. But when the world fucks with us, the worst thing we can do is bury it. Embracing it makes us strong enough to fuck the world right back.

Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.

Grown women knew better than to attach themselves to time bombs. Teenage girls couldn't wait to be ruined.

By virtue of being a woman, she's stronger. Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down.

Her teenage fury had morphed into something else: power.

Today there is help all around—articles abound on these subjects, 12-step rooms are around the corner, and help is down the hall in many schools and workplaces. But we have to reach out and take hold of the help. And we have to stick with it until we can create meaningful change in our lives.

This ability makes us more available to all of life. It builds self-confidence and inner strength.

Nothing is better, no reward greater than our true connection with ourselves, and through that we can reach out and really touch another. Working through trauma pulls us from the surface of life into the wellspring from which we learn who we really are.

I know that if I ever have the audacity to blame fate or God for holding a gun to my temple, I also have the wherewithal to remind myself that if I end up with a hole in my head, I was the one who pulled the trigger.