Quotes About Empowerment

As a backup, I intended to get a quart of defense spray. I wasn't much good with a gun, but I was bitchin' with an aerosol can.

I'm done with men. I have a hamster. That's all I need.

God bless YouTube," Lula said. "You don't even need to go to college no more because you could learn how to do everything on YouTube.

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.

Embarrassing as it was to admit, I was beginning to enjoy the role, thinking there was nothing like packing a pair of cuffs to put some spring into a woman's step.

You come from a long line of scary women Ranger finally said.

It's the twenty-first century," I told Tank. "Women drive." "Only in my bed," Tank said. "Never in my car." I didn't have a reply to that, but I thought it sounded like an okay philosophy. So I beeped the Escape locked, got into Tank's SUV, and we chugged off for my place.

This here's the twenty-first century. Just 'cause we're women don't mean we can't be sick as men.

Are you a feminist?" "You bet your ass," Lula said. "Unless I need something done that's man's work.

I kind of like being a slut," Grandma said. "It beats the heck out of being an old lady.

Why did you pick Ladies' Choice?" "It was the obvious one. I'm a lady. And I had to make a choice." "You think you're a lady?" "Fuckin' A," Lula said.

letting my skirt ride up to a couple inches below my doo-dah

I figure happiness is a choice that you make.

How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?

that was her edge. her secret weapon. she didnt give a shit.

The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

Never apologize, never explain.

Always learn poems by heart," she said. "They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay.

Time has taken on an utterly different quality for me. What difference does a year make? In a perverse way, I pity the women who are still a part of time, trapped by it, how many months, how many days. I have been cut free

You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.

There was power in me now, where there had been none.

She never seemed more complete, more sure of herself. Not trying to please anyone anymore. Page 292

Time has taken on an utterly different quality for me. What difference does a year make? In a perverse way, I pity the women who are still a part of time, trapped by it, how many months, how many days. I have been cut free, I move among centuries.

It's great we have a female Thor. It's great we have a black Captain America. But those are just optics; it's optics of change... Unless you have the structural diversity, the structural change behind the scenes - more women, more people of color actually calling the shots and editing these books - those optics won't last.