Quotes About Empowerment

Eine Hure ist eine Dame, die es für Geld macht, was mir viel mehr einleuchtet, als es umsonst zu machen.

Before she left, she said, "Just remember one thing: Going along with something doesn't mean you give in to it.[...]

Du får aldrig ett eget ansikte förrn du lär dig att slåss.

You'll never have a face of your own until you've learned to fight. (Little My to Ninny the Invisible Child)

There's no need to imagine that you're a wondrous beauty, because that's what you are.

I'm extremely blessed to have the extraordinary mother that I have, and I don't mean Diana Ross, I mean the mother. My mom paved a road that didn't exist, as did Oprah.

Particular stories call us to accountability," feminist social ethicist Sharon Welch explains.50

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I think it's important that folks feel useful and know the value of working. We do no good to any man by giving him everything." "I agree. I saw the damage done

My father used to say that opression isn't a finite state. It's a weight that is carried until it becomes too heavy, and then it is thrown off. Not without struggle, not without pain, but he believed the weight would always, always be fought and overcome.

oppression isn't a finite state. It's a weight that is carried until it becomes too heavy, and then it is thrown off.

No.» A Nomi si spezzò il cuore. «Non è una scelta se non si ha la libertà di dire no. Un sì non ha valore quando è l'unica risposta concessa!»

Nothing seems to fit anymore. I can't be Aristos, but I don't think I'm Aris either. I don't know who I am." She was lost. Dianthe grabbed her knee. "You are a woman who gave up everything to defend her dominion. You are a flyer." Aris

Dianthe cleared her throat and said softly, "I do this because I believe a woman should have the right to fight and die for her dominion, just like any man. We are no longer a population in danger of extinction. There's no reason for our leaders to ban women from making this choice. So I help them make it anyway. Even if it means giving up who they are. Even if it means joining Military as ghosts.

Accepting that you can't control the outcome is not the end of action—it is the opening for the boldest and most daring action. You can accept total responsibility for your choices and actions. You are free to play full-out in creating and implementing an extraordinary future for yourself and your organization.

The American leaders could only bring this new realm of possibility into existence by making a declaration—a form of conversation. Once human rights were declared, actions that would never have been conceived before came naturally to mind.

You shift the way you are being by creating a new context from which to relate to reality.

Committed Speaking and Listening A series of speech acts that move what's not possible or impossible to a possibility, and a possibility to a reality.

Philip Amato, Hubert Dreyfus, Charles Wesley Emerson, Werner Erhard, Fernando Flores, Buckminster Fuller, Michael Goldstein, Martin Heidegger, Joan Holmes, Randy MacNamara, Jim Selman, William Shakespeare, and Constantine Stanislavsky.

But it wasn't running the project that threatened to do him in; it was the unwanted, persistent condition—the racket—of not being able to say no, or fully commit to yes.

Following that declaration, you would make whatever bold promises are suggested to you by the imperative of your declaration.

Then let me ask you something, Terry. In terms of the whole situation, if you could miraculously have your relationship with your boss altered, what would you have it be?

You are shifting from … … "what's possible" occurring as "what's predictable," bound by the limits of past experience … … to … … "what's possible" occurring as what you say is possible and what you commit to make happen, based on nothing.

Remember, to transform something is to alter how it occurs (how it exists, and how you are being in relation to it): from occurring in a way that constrains or limits you to occurring in a way that frees your actions.