Quotes About Empowerment

I think it's funny when people assume that I have to put up with their insulting shit to my face. Rude awakening, table for one please.

and I decide to stop inwardly composing the feminist world court's prosecutorial summation to the jury.

What couldn't I do now, having already committed such a breach of fashion logic and lived to tell the tale? Why couldn't I pretend to be a woman with a solid core of self-worth, who likes herself no matter what the nearest handsome man or evil mother thinks of her?

God forbid the wife should have prior knowledge of sex, let alone enjoy it.

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

It's difficult because we live in a world that doesn't really respect the creative and intellectual contributions of women. It's more like "Oh, you're so cute. Be quiet. Shhh, don't talk too much.

When women take off their corsets and heighten their skirts it always means high inflation and low morals.

My mother] believed we could each change the world, but what convinced me this was possible was music.

It seems you are the kind of squaw those Indians would like to have, but make sure they don't! One who keeps her men in line!

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles.

David Ogilvy: "If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.

The investment in the education of girls may well be the highest-return investment available in the developing world.

Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

just want to read more books and be a knowledgeable female.

Mama is beautiful," I said. "Mama is strong," he said. "Beauty comes and goes. Strength, you keep forever.

Assume full responsibility for the dream. For "through the dream the man makes the matter his own; it is in his will, and he is responsible for it."19

The aim of any literacy, and this literacy in particular, is to "empower people to choose the appropriate language for what they need to create or express.

I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind of fantasies do feminists have?

A cosmology that admits of only one male god limits women's capacity to envision their full potential as human beings.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.