Quotes About Empowerment

I bet if you go through the rest of your life telling yourself, I'm sparkling, you'll have a whole different energy and experience.

When I was your age I knew nothing about the world or my place in it. I figured I'd be someone's wife, then someone's mother. It never occurred to me to be someone myself.

I've learned that everyone can do their part to repair the world

If being a girl is a frontier all its own, what is the manifest destiny?

The ivory girl had stepped down from her pedestal and stamped her foot. The foundling had found her voice.

You are not a pawn in the chessgame of life, you are the mover of the pieces.

I would love to teach every kid to say fuck. Hang on, now, hang on, listen to why. The reason is because to me, that is a word that doesn't have any effect. But stupid and dummy? You can say it to someone who is six and you can say it to someone who is a hundred and six and they will hunch their shoulders and it will be like somebody kicked them in the stomach because they are harsh, ugly words.

The most important thing is that you have to listen to your truths, desires and wants. And you have to believe you deserve all of it.

I can do anything. I can be anything. No one ever told me I couldn't. No one ever expressed this idea that I was limited to any one thing, and so I think in terms of what's possible, not impossible.

We are all here for a reason.I believe the reason is to throw little torches out to lead people thru the darkness.

When a woman wants me to do anything (my daughter, or not, it doesn't matter), I always insist on knowing why. The oftener you make them rummage their own minds for a reason, the more manageable you will find them in all the relations of life. It isn't their fault (poor wretches!) that they act first and think afterwards; it's the fault of the fools who humour them.

But it is a maxim of mine that men (being superior creatures) are bound to improve women—if they can.

No man under heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace—they drag us away from our parents' love and our sisters' friendship—they take us body and soul to themselves, and fasten our helpless lives to theirs as they chain up a dog to his kennel. And what does the best of them give us in return?

we will leave this place, and go into other lodgings - you as the mistress; and I as the maid. I should be found out, ma'am, interposed Louisa, trembling at the prospect before her. I am not a lady. And I am, said Magdalen bitterly. Shall I tell you what a lady is? A lady is a woman who wears a silk gown, and has a sense of her own importance. I shall put the gown on your back, and the sense in your head.

You musn't talk of a young lady *belonging* to anybody, as if she was a piece of furniture, or money in the Three per Cent, or something of that sort.

Let us trust to ourselves, see all with our own eyes; Let these be our oracles, our tripods and our gods.

To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and to rule one's self.

Democracy is a luxury of disseminated intelligence, security, and peace.

Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free. Some

He gave the human mind a great impetus; he prepared us for freedom.

Truth will not make us rich but it will make us free.

Nor must I forget to tell of the liberty and equality of the two sexes in relation to each other….

Who makes you Storyteller? You do. You are . Go play.

Until a person has discovered and dares to follow his own inner gleam, we may be sure of one thing: he will be leaning in either negative or positive dependence on someone outside himself!