Quotes About Empowerment

Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful.

I'm not gonna change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know, I'm one of those people.

There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

Athletes, we were supposed to just be there, and in class I made it a point that I was prepared for every exam, that I got on that Dean's List. Because I wanted them to see that there was a black person on the Dean's List who was an athlete. I accepted the challenge, because I want you to know that we bleed just like you do. We have feelings just like you do. Let us read the same books and we'll understand it just like you do!

We want our children to have a childhood that's magical and enriched, but I'll bet that your best childhood memories involve something you were thrilled to do by yourself. These are childhood's magic words: "I did it myself!

The phrase learn how to walk on bound feet was what struck me the hardest. I suddenly realized that I would never walk naturally again.

Traditionally the strongest weapon that a Chinese woman had was suicide.

What are we going to do in the face of what we remember? (Langston Hughes)

Eine Hure wird niemals eine Hure, wenn sie nicht dazu gemacht wird.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance

The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

You are all you have. Therefore, make yourself the most beautiful, tender, wonderful, fantastic person in the world. And then you will always survive.

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.

A mulher é privada de direitos porque ela é privada de instrução, e a falta de instrução provém da ausência de direitos. Não esqueçamos que a escravidão da mulher é tão antiga que muito frequentemente somos incapazes de compreender o abismo legal que a separa de nós.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.