Quotes About Empowerment

Back in those days I was stoned almost twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. The difference today is that there is nothing you or anyone else could say to persuade me to inhale enough even to fill a flea's lung with cannabis. It's actually impossible to measure how fantastic I feel.

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

She had to do something. Anything. She had to focus, think, fight. She wasn't anybody's point to prove. She was fucking Batgirl. Her body was broken and her mind jagged and fractured by trauma, but she was still alive, and she wasn't going down without a fight.

I ask myself what gives a person, what gave that woman, the right to confront us with decisions that we are not equal to making, decisions that tear us apart and leave us feeling inferior, incompetent, guilty.

Sie sagt, nach ihrer Beobachtung gehöre zum Leben der Frauen mehr Mut als zu dem der Männer. Wenn sie von einer Frau höre, die diesen Mut aufbringe, verlange es sie danach, mit ihr bekannt zu sein. Es sei nämlich dahin gekommen, daß die Frauen, auch über Entfernungen hinweg, einander stützen müßten, da die Männer nicht mehr dazu imstande seien.

You're blindly following a tradition that says because women didn't leave behind voluminous records of their thoughts and deeds, then they didn't have any thoughts and deeds - they were just standing on the sidelines while history was made by men. Just because a woman didn't have a vote doesn't mean that she didn't have an informed opinion. It doesn't mean she was incapable of thinking or acting.

Nature intends all men and women to be mental and spiritual giants, and does not intend that any one should follow the will of another.

To give so much time to improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

Depend only upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Thus you call forth the best that is in yourself and secure the best that external sources have to give.

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.

When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorbed in the better. He will then forget his old mistakes, his old faults and his old desires, and will give all his life and power to the building of that better which has engaged his new interest.

When a woman puts on a heel, she has a different posture, a different attitude. She really stands up and has a consciousness of her body.

become the physical embodiment of your soul so that you discover the woman you were always meant to be.

The essence of everything you will learn in these pages comes down to this: To live an easy life, you have to align with the Divine part of yourself. In fact, you have to let it lead your life. This is not the same as waiting for some kind of Divine force outside of you to come swooping in to rescue you from your life. That's not how it works. You have to make an effort to make changes. But when you align your personal will with Divine will, then you can move mountains. Much

becoming an ageless goddess means letting go of the fear that you aren't smart enough, educated enough, or intuitive enough to make the right decisions for yourself.

Somewhere deep inside many of us is an apology for our very existence. As Anne Wilson Schaef writes, "The original sin of being born female is not redeemable by works."3 No

rid myself of what was no longer serving me. I stood up for myself and my own worth. I declared that I deserved to be treated better, and that had to start in the only place I have any control over: how I treat myself. The fact that you are entitled to your hurt, grief, and defensiveness doesn't mean it's working for you.

The world at large is finally waking up to the fact that we can no longer ignore the victims of intimate violence and the link between intimate violence and international violence, including terrorism.

my favorite chapter in Cheryl Richardson's book The Art of Extreme Self-Care (Hay House, 2009) is the one titled "Let Me Disappoint You.

I don't let someone else's idea about what "40," or "50," or "60," or any other number means inform how I see myself.

the sooner you give up on them and choose you, the healthier, happier, and more effective you will become.

with a woman's life expectancy at eighty-four years, it is reasonable to expect that she will not only live thirty to forty years beyond menopause, but be vibrant, sharp, and influential as well. The menopause you will experience is not your mother's (or grandmother's) menopause.

she is now dedicating her life to helping women truly flourish by learning how to enhance all that can go right with their bodies. Dr. Northrup is a leading proponent of medicine that acknowledges the unity of mind, body, emotions, and spirit. Internationally known for her empowering approach to women's health and