Quotes About Empowerment

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

My body can't put anyone in jeopardy of not making money anymore - my body is just not on the table that way anymore.

Options. She can sleep with the door open, wander around freely, come and go without someone watching her every move. She hadn't realized how much of a toll the years of judgment and criticism, implied and expressed, have taken on her. It's as if she's been walking on a wire, trying to keep her balance, and now, for the first time, she is on solid ground.

I'm one of few children on the train who can read. Mam taught me all my letters years ago, in Ireland, then taught me how to spell. When we got to New York, she'd make me read to her, anything with words on it—crates and bottles I found in the street.

What she wants most-what she truly years for-is what any of us want: to be seen. And look. She is.

she knows from experience that tough and weird is preferable to pathetic and vulnerable, and she wears her Goth persona like armor.

No, I am Dorothy now.

Way beyond the calls for equal pay, self-sovereignty, choice, politi­cal, legal and educational equality, as woman we each need to search our souls, grieve the enormity of what has befallen us, then find new ways to step outside the shame, to channel the outrage into outlets for progress. We need to cease identification with our oppressors so that we may lift up other women and learn the powerful word that means "no.

Great minds think alike-especially when they are female.

I thought, well, you might see curves there, but that's just a bone - so even if I lose weight that's not going to change anything. That's how I look. That's my shape. Do the math.

I met a lot of young girls modelling and they were like, 'Oh, I'm running around town and people are taking my picture', while I was saving receipts and learning how to be self-employed.

I have women coming up to me and saying: 'I love your character! She's so empowered. She takes control she gets what she wants.' That's another side of her. And I respect that in Joan. She says and does things that I would never allow myself to do.

Perhaps in the pursuit of happiness, men and women take somewhat different paths. And, isn't it more than a little patronizing to suggest that most....women are not free? They're not self-determining human beings?

Around the world, a woman's body is still very much a battlefield and hundreds of thousands of women bear the invisible wounds of war.

Nothing hurts me if I don't want it to," she told him.

I'm an old woman, your mother's an old woman, so I'll be an old woman, and I'll do what I please.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what you need done and let them surprise you

A woman with a mind is fit for any task.

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper." ? Christine de Pizan She was the first woman in France to earn a living by her writing! Born 1364, she advocated for women's equality, wrote poetry, novels, biography, an autobiography, literary, political and religious commentary. She was the widowed mother of three and, perhaps, the first feminist!

Si las mujeres hubiesen escrito los libros, estoy segura de que lo habrían hecho de otra forma, porque ellas saben que se las acusa en falso.]

If women were the equals of men, men would no longer equal themselves. Why then should women resemble what men would have ceased to be?

La récupération d'une image positive de nous ne passe pas seulement ni principalement par la récupération d'une image positive de nos fonctions "procréatives". Elle passe aussi et surtout par la capacité de nous définir autrement que par ces fonctions : par la récupération, comme spécifiques des femmes - c'est-à-dire partie aussi intégrante et définissante de nous-mêmes - de nos organes et fonctions non-procréatives.

Toute démarche qui tend à nous faire mieux accepter les contraintes sociales est dangereuse, et ne peut en aucun cas être qualifiée de "libératrice". C'est pourquoi la "revalorisation du corps des femmes", sans autre précision, est un projet extrêmement ambigu.

Of course I can do this. I'm pregnant, not brain-damaged. My condition doesn't change my personality.