Quotes About Empowerment

Contacting and living from our True Self is the central task of personal growth.

Everything lovely in you for a perpetual companion, so that you'd never be frightened or disappointed or ashamed any more. There are tales that can give you yourself completely and the world could never treat you so badly then that you wouldn't neglect it. One can get everything by listening or looking in the right way: there are all sorts of turns.

But the experience of Asians in America isn't just a scaled-back or dialed-down version of the Black experience. Instead of co-opting someone else's experience or consciousness, he must define his own.

Being slagged off is good for you. It thickens the skin and strengthens the backbone.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

So, at least from my perspective of stability and longevity, what you're looking for in representation, labels, agencies, or record producers is people who believe in you, and sometimes the smaller entities are where you'll find them.

I can hold my own with any man." "Now, don't be modest, sis, you could thrash any man I know.

If we really wanted to be cool, and everyone in the world had Pro Tools, we could just put it up on the internet and everyone could make their own record out of it.

I'm not a concept. Too many guys think I'm a concept or I complete them or I'm going to 'make them alive'…but I'm just a fucked up girl who's looking for my own peace of mind. Don't assign me yours.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman.

My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.

Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

The idea of just adding women to things as they are is not nearly as likely to excite people as the idea that society as a whole could be different. To believe that the degradation of sexism and racism, the violence in our lives that we have today is not inevitable moves people to action.

The initial tenets of feminism have already been established--the idea that power is based on gender differences and that men's illegitimate power over women taints all aspects of society, for instance. But now we face the arduous task of systematically working through these ideas, fleshing them out and discovering new ones.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy our existence challenges its life.

Codependency is women's basic training.

There is no education but self-education.

Let children alone... the education of habit is successful in so far as it enables the mother to let her children alone, not teasing them with perpetual commands and directions - a running fire of Do and Don't ; but letting them go their own way and grow, having first secured that they will go the right way and grow to fruitful purpose.

A lifted world lifts women up," the Socalist explained. You cannot lift the world at all While half of it is kept so small," the Suffragist maintained. The world awoke, and tartly spoke: Your work is all the same; Work together or work apart, Work, each of you, with all your heart- Just get into the game!