Quotes About Empowerment

He called me an asshole and said, "I'll bury you!" like some comic book villain. I wanted to fucking scream my head off—I'm not your toy! Your puppet! Your whore! I'm a human goddamn being and I expect to be treated as such! Instead I told him I didn't want to be buried, I want to be cremated. And I want my ashes stored in a disco ball he can hang over his desk.

All my life I waited for someone who would say things like that to me. And for someone I didn't feel alone in the presence of. Someone who understood. Someone who would make me feel like it wasn't just me against the world.

I heard a voice in my head. It said: I would rather be alone than ever be my mother. I will leave before I am left.

Happiness as a consequence of choice.

Oh my God, that would be just like An Officer and a Gentleman," Kat cried. "Pick her up, Grace! Do it!

Kat's idea of self-improvement is a good bikini wax.

Believe it or not, I have boundaries.

I was taught at a tender age that Bullying had nothing to do with me; instead it had everything to do with the heartache of the person doing the bullying.

You don't want to be in a relationship with someone who's scared of you.

But one look at the business of champagne tells a very different tale. In the boardrooms and wine cellars, champagne is a man's world. Today, there are only a handful of women in senior positions in the French wine industry, and only one of the elite and internationally renowned champagne houses known as the grandes marques is run by a woman—the house of Champagne Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin, headed since 2001 by Madame Cécile Bonnefond.

Women are traditionally trained to place others' needs first… their satisfaction to be in making it possible for others to use their abilities.

Only help her to know—help make it so there is cause for her to know—that she is more than this dress on the ironing board, helpless before the iron.

And you will know the truth and the truth will make you free.

The task is to become church for them, among them and with them, and under Spirit of God to lead them to become church in their own culture.

There is nothing that God expects you to do that you cannot do. The sin that defeats you need not defeat you. The fears that consume you need not consume you. The people who terrify you need not terrify you. You have the Spirit of life within you empowering you to know God and follow Christ.

know this, that when you cannot pray, Christ prays for you, and he prays that you may pray.

People don't want to be projects.

Phiona Mutesi is the ultimate underdog. To be African is to be an underdog in the world. To be Ugandan is to be an underdog in Africa. To be from Katwe is to be an underdog in Uganda. To be a girl is to be an underdog in Katwe. When

For the most part, the girls of Katwe need to be told who these people are and once they learn, they want to be just like them. For Phiona Mutesi and the other teenage girls of Katwe, there are no true female role models to follow. Nothing realistic. Nothing attainable. No solid businesswoman or stable homemaker. There is no in-between for Phiona to grab onto during a very impressionable time in her life, a time when she needs a lot of guidance about becoming an adult.

Plenty of Ugandan men believe that women shouldn't even compete in sports.

Don't you understand? The answer is inside each of you! Don't follow anyone else! Be your own leader! Lead yourselves!

the key to achievement in life is not letting others define your towers.

That's the key to love: Never explain yourself. If a woman attacks, and your response is explanations, then strap on a helmet.

Beyond these shores, whenever two or more Irishmen are gathered together, everything almost can be done.