Quotes About Empowerment

Islam was no longer a straitjacket into which I forced myself, nor a nonnative language I learned from others around me, but a grammar through which I vowed to write my own stories.

You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change. -Atticus Finch

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

I [Topsy] 'spect I grow'd. Don't think nobody never made me.

A woman's health is her capital.

To him, it is the right of a man to be a man, and not a brute; the right to call the wife of his bosom his wife, and to protect her from lawless violence; the right to protect and educate his child; the right to have a home of his own, a religion of his own, a character of his own, unsubject to the will of another.

If it comes to that, I can earn myself at least six feet of free soil.

They will rise, and raise with them their mother's side

Women are the real architects of society.

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

Actually, I don't ever think there will be a men-only team of leadership in the Labour party again. People would look at it and say, 'What? Are there no women in the party to be part of the leadership? Do men want to do it all themselves?' It just won't happen again.

Remember that women have a long legacy of assuming responsibility for other people's feelings and for caring for others at the expense of the self. Some of us may care for others by picking up their dirty socks or doing their "feeling work"; some by being less strong, self-directed, and competent than we can be so as to avoid threatening those important to us. Changing our legacy is possible but not easy. Think small to begin with, but think.

Neden sorunlar?m?z? ve seçeneklerimizi belirleyip konumumuzu aç?kl??a kavuÅŸturmak yerine, kronik kavgac? ve ÅŸikayetçi kiÅŸiler oluyoruz? Hay?r, kad?nlar kurban edilmiÅŸ, altta kalm?? konumlar?ndan mazoÅŸist bir zevk alm?yorlar. Tam tersine; tahterevalli evliliÄŸinin alt ucunda oturan kad?n, pes etme ve özveride bulunma düzeyiyle doÄŸru orant?l? bir öfke biriktiriyor içinde.

When a woman loses her resolve to speak up and stand firmly behind her position, she may be vulnerable to depression, anxiety, headaches, chronic anger, and bitterness.

We begin to use our anger as a vehicle for change when we are able to share our reactions without holding the other person responsible for causing our feelings, and without blaming ourselves for the reactions that other people have in response to our choices and actions. We are responsible for our own behavior.

But what is courage? In a world saturated with images of action-figure bravado, we may mistakenly believe that courage is the absence of fear. Instead, it is the capacity to think, speak, and act despite our fear and shame.

Ama eski modelde Sandra tüm gücünü Larry'i deÄŸiÅŸtirmeye yöneltmiÅŸ olduÄŸu için kendi ba??na hareket edip seçim yapma gücünü kullanam?yordu -ki bu da asl?nda, sahip olduÄŸumuz tek güçtür.

At the simplest level, "being a self" means we can be pretty much who we are in relationships rather than what others wish, need, and expect us to be. It also means we can allow others to do the same. It means we do not participate in relationships at the expense of the "I".

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash.

I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

You can stand tall, without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.