Quotes About Empowerment

Wow, brains as well as boobs.

DON'T BE FRIGHTENED! Inigo screamed. I'M NOT, I'M NOT! Fezzik screamed right back.

the friends of humanity once more appear, in their zeal to help somebody, to be trampling on those who are trying to help themselves.

To be a perpetual victim is always to have your life named, claimed, and determined by the victimizer. It is to give the perpetrator of injustice power over who you are and what you mean.

The power of an individual lies in the ability to accomplish goals — either alone or with the help of others.

IN A WORLD STILL RULED BY KINGS, President George Washington's decision to not seek a third term clearly signaled that the United States would be governed by the people, not any ruler-for-life.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.

I will act as if what i do makes a difference.

Act as if what you do makes a difference, it does.

I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.

What the King conquered, the Prince formed, the Field Marshal defended, the Soldier saved and unified

I'm glad you've seen the part played by our women in our movement, Gandhi beamed. The world has never seen such a magnificent spectacle. They were as brave as our men.

The good news of the gospel is that who we are is okay. Our best is good enough. The Savior came for us--just as we are.

Be spiritually independent enough that your relationship with the Savior doesn't depend on your circumstances or on what other people say and do.

I never had a biological sister, yet the more closely I work with women in the Church, the more surely I know there is a spiritual sisterhood.

Comrades, let me remind us again that our union cannot be stronger than we make it; and a weak union serves no useful purpose.A weak union is a terrible disaster!

Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye … I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.

You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?' Aunty Ifeka said. 'Your life belongs to you and you alone.

UnLondon would have to look after itself. She wasn't the Shwazzy. She was just someone. How could just someone be any help, whatever was going on?

We are sick and tired of living in debt and slavery,' the Rakalovsk peasants had their chairperson write. 'We want space and light.

Maria Spiridonova

Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me.

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.