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Quotes About Empowerment

If only there were a river of courage, - Rahel whispered. I would bend down, cup the water in my hand and drink.
~ Jane Kurtz
You can't make another person treat you with respect, but you can treat yourself with respect. Walking away is treating yourself with respect—and
~ Jane Nelsen
When parents continue to dress their children after the age of three, they are robbing them of developing a sense of responsibility, self-sufficiency, and self-confidence. They are less likely to develop the belief that they are capable. Instead they feel a sense of belonging when others do things for them.
~ Jane Nelsen
When Dad lost control of Mom, they both lost control of the children.
~ Jane Nelsen
I hope that this book will serve to release the deeply intuitive self within each of my readers, and to bring to the foreground of consciousness whatever particular insights will serve you most. As
~ Jane Roberts
You can change your personal world. You do change it without knowing it.
~ Jane Roberts
we human beings have the blessed creative capacity to do so much better. So why don't we?" 2.
~ Jane Roberts
If you dwell upon limitations, you will meet them.
~ Jane Roberts
When your parents don't like you, then you are free.
~ Jane Smiley
Farmers' Holiday Association.
~ Jane Smiley
Solidarity is the most important thing. The bosses and the bankers have it. We have to have it, too.
~ Jane Smiley
Dejé de ser la intermediaria entre el capataz y los peones, la responsable de todo. La mujer que acababa el día hecha jirones y que era remendada durante la noche con el único propósito de poder ser despedazada de nuevo a la mañana siguiente.
~ Jane Smiley
There were so many things Rosanna could have been besides a farm wife, she thought. But it was not a source of regret—it was a source of pride.
~ Jane Smiley
And the odd thing was, she was beautiful then. It was her awakening, her... recovery that made her beautiful. After that she just shone.
~ Jane Urquhart
Come, Ye Women: Oh, come, ye women of the Isles, And listen to my song, For if ye be but thirteen years, Ye've not been women long. And if ye be threescore and ten, No longer women be, Or so say all the merry men Who count so cruel-ly. But women we be from our birth, And will be till we die. Our counte is made so differently To give the men that lie. Oh, come, ye women of the Isles, And listen to my song, For we be women all through life, Where life and love are long.
~ Jane Yolen
Snow White Makes a Plea to the Witch Light a candle. Feed your scrawny cat. Polish your dark house. Buy a new hat. Write odes, darn socks. Repair your crumbling stoop. Put a smile on your face. Pour out that sour soup. Move away from the mines, Far out by the bay. And I beg you, please, Throw that mirror away.
~ Jane Yolen
Beauty Sleep Wake up, princess, time to rise. Open up your dreamy eyes. Never mind the prince or kiss. By no means were you raised for this. Take the plot back from the witch. Kick her spindle in the ditch!
~ Jane Yolen
Do not touch her!
~ Jane Yolen
If I gave you a pity position it wouldn't be in my office.
~ Janet Evanovich
I need mood music. I gotta get myself ready to kick butt. Lula - High Five
~ Janet Evanovich
Just because i know how to change a guys oil doesn't mean i want to spend the rest of my life on my back, staring up his undercarriage.
~ Janet Evanovich
Suppose something goes wrong? Suppose you need a big full-figure woman like me to help straighten things out? Lula
~ Janet Evanovich
Ranger removed my goggles Would you like to come home with me? I stepped away from him. Thank you for the offer, but no. I'm done with men. Ranger smiled. Forever? Until I figure some things out. And if you don't figure them out? If I can't figure them out on my own, I'll ask you to help me. Babe, that's like the blind leading the blind.
~ Janet Evanovich
It's not a good idea to mess with a woman who has a pimple
~ Janet Evanovich