Quotes About Empowerment

I know it's important to do more than just complain when there's something you don't like. You need to try to do something about it, or you're nothing but a whiner.

Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

It isn't freedom from. It's freedom to.

Es kommt nicht darauf an, was man aus uns gemacht hat, sondern darauf, was wir aus dem machen, was man aus uns gemacht hat.

On peut toujours faire quelque chose de ce que l'on a fait de nous. »

Get up, girl, and dress yourself. Woman must have spunks to live in this wicked world. Christophine to Antoinette

Bertha is not my name. You are trying to make me into someone else, calling me by another name. I know, that's obeah too.

We're slaves, not idiots. That's all you have to understand.

There are times when it will go so wrong that you will barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone else's terms.

If I let them take away my demons, I'll have to give up what I've found.

I realised something important: whatever is on the outside can be taken away at any time. Only what is inside you is safe.

Her suffering was her armour. Gradually it became her skin. Then she could not take it off.

Love is an intervention. Why do we not choose it?" (205)

The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

Saddest of all are the woman who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue.

There are voices and they must be heard.

I wrote my way out.

Six books… my mother didn't want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

We were to be the lightest of things, he and I, lifting each other up above the heaviness of life. If was because we knew that gravity is always part of the equation that we tried to defeat it.

And if you have found your voice, you can be heard

I can change the story. I am the story.

When I see a word held hostage to manhood I have to rescue it. Sweet trembling word, locked in a tower, tired of your Prince coming and coming.