Quotes About Empowerment

Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it.

Someday, my young friend, you'll find out that girls are actually people too. Just like you and me.

There's nothing you can do, Sirus. No one can do this for me, and no one can swoop in and rescue me every time I'm challenged. I have to do this on my own.

I swallowed hard. It was my life. And it was my choice how I decided to live it.

People can only really bother you if you let them.

I wondered if that principle of renewal could be applied to a person. If you left a girl alone, she could learn to heal herself. She could consciously forget bad things, or at least learn to live with them.

Heather Dune Macadam

Ultimately, Laura found sufficient resources, both internal and external, to wean herself from the medications, and to see her emotions and moods as fundamentally human, rather than as problems to be solved.

You must grow strong. Pain must never cause pain.

tried to make her understand that she couldn't control other people, only her own reaction to them.

But here is what I tell my own daughters, when they start to place all of the magic outside of themselves, when they start to feel like some random dude owns the sun and the moon and the stars: The world has told you lies about how small you are.

I used to admire people who could hang with anything. Now the women I admire the most are women who never pretend to be different than they are. Women like that express their anger. They admit when they're down. They don't beat themselves up over their bad moods. They allow themselves to be grumpy sometimes. They grant themselves the right to be grouchy, or to say nothing, or to decline your offer without a lengthy explanation.

Truly believing that my ideas and words have a right to be taken seriously. And if I believed enough in my talents years ago to own them, who knows what I could've created?

Hold your own space and honor yourself and don't let that space shrink or collapse in the company of indifference. Don't ask indifference to love you. Indifference can go fuck itself. This is your life, and it's going to be big and bright and beautiful.

I feel by posing for Playboy I've discovered my own sexuality and beauty, and I feel more confident than ever.

You are the cradle to my sky when you hold me I am no longer afraid to fly.

Everything written by any woman was written by all women, because they all benefited from it. If one woman was a genius, it was proof that it was possible for the rest of them.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. MARY SHELLEY

There is choice. We can suffer or make miracles.

God-given right to live as they pleased.

The feelings are overwhelming, but they're not you. They're the feelings. You are separate, and you are strong and amazing and good.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Never say 'I can't.' 'I can't' is a limit, and life is about breaking through limits. Say 'I will' instead.

I'll have to figure it out for myself. That's thge problem with life. It's not really a spectator sport.