Quotes About Empowerment

Know your worth, girls. You're not lucky to be at the party; the party is lucky to have you. Apply as needed to relationships, jobs, and family.

I'm so smart now. Everyone's always like 'take your top off'. Sorry, NO! They always want to get that money shot. I'm not stupid.

There are so many young women who need to hear this story. I don't want them to learn from my mistakes; I want them to stop hating themselves for mistakes of their own. I want them to laugh and see that they do have a voice and their own brand of intelligence and, girl, fuck fitting in.

Don't waste energy living a life someone else designed for you. Life is one per customer. Let them do theirs. You do yours.

Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom.

I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.

My mother saw in 'Gone With the Wind' the text of liberating herself, ... She took 'Gone With the Wind' as the central book in her life, and made it the central book in her family.

I have yet to meet an English teacher who assigned a book to damage a kid.

Son, you can do more good at Yamacraw than you could ever do in the Peace Corps. And you would be helping Americans, Pat. And I, for one, think it's very important to help Americans.

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Leadership in a team environment is all about serving, facilitating, and releasing rather than taking charge and being in control.

Alignment is not only the source of team power, but it is also a prerequisite for team empowerment. In today's business environment teams and empowerment go hand in hand.

What writer Audre Lorde says to black men and women is true for all of us: If we do not define ourselves, we will be defined by others for their use and to our detriment. Our country and perhaps all human history is a pattern of oppression, repression, suppression, subjugation. Racism is part of our heritage, reminding us that not all aspects of a culture should be preserved.

women hold their councils of war in kitchens: the knives are there, and the cups of coffee, and the towels to dry the tears.

Oh...if you were older...It is not a bad thing, itself, but it is a bad thing to be used by men, to have them choose what you must be, and what you must not be, to have little choice in your life. If you were older, you could choose your own way.

Sophie von Hahn refused to be cowed, embarrassed, resentful, dishonest or passed over. [...] She intended to bewitch her straying childhood lover all over again, and free him from whatever noxious enchantment had induced him to be censorious and horrid. No fear, no guilt, no shame. She set out to win.

To be alone is to be free

You either let some event ruin your life or not. The decision is yours.

I think people's lives are there own.

Patricia Keelyn

There has never been only one religion of the goddess. Every continent, every culture, had its own vision of the way that divine feminine should be pictured. Each culture pictured her as one of their own. She was black in Africa, blonde in Scandinavia, round-faced in Japan, dark-eyed in India. For the goddess was the essence of woman's strength and beauty to each one of her daughters, so she had to look like them. When ancient women looked at their goddess, they saw themselves.

Rather than being a bleeding image of female disempowerment, Medusa may be read as... one of the most ancient European symbols of women's spiritual abilities... [and] an empowering image of feminine potential.

The Goddess has never been lost. It is just that some of us have forgotten how to find her.

The immanent goddess did not create the rose; she is the rose. She does not take care of you; she is you.