Quotes About Empowerment

They were prisoners, trapped by old ways of life, jailed within the imperial palace. He was no more free than she was. Yet only she could do what she would. If she said she would be Empress, then none could hold her back.

Never reproach him with his own weakness, for then he will become wholly weak. Never let him feel that but for you he would be useless, for then he will indeed become useless. You must search for the few strong threads in him and weave your fabric with those, and where the threads are weak, never trust to them. Supply your own in secret.

When there were none but these two left in the hall, Wang the Tiger leaned forward out of his carven seat and he said in a hard, hoarse voice, Woman, you are free. Choose where you will go and I will send someone to take you there. And she answered simply, with all the boldness gone out of her, except that she could look at him in the eyes while she said it, I have chosen already. I am your bondswoman.

I am never better pleased than when I know a book of mine can be bought for fifty cents or, better still, for twenty-five. No people can be educated or even cultivated until books are cheap enough for everybody to buy.

Yes, you paid money for me, she answered, but that does not make me yours. A human creature cannot be bought whole.

want to go where my children never hear that a man's color dooms him and that because a woman is black, she is not a woman but a female.

Heaven in its mercy says when a woman is forty, 'Now, poor soul and body, the rest of your life you shall have for yourself. You have divided yourself again and again, and now take what is left and make yourself whole again

Hay tantos niños que van a nacer con una alita rota Y yo quiero que vuelen compañero Que su revolución les dé un pedazo de cielo rojo Para que puedan volar

They too struggle with the expectation to look sexy but not to feel sexual, to provoke desire in others without experience it themselves. Our daughters may not be faced with the decision of whether to strip for maxim, but they will have to figure out how to become sexual beings without being objectified or stigmatized.

Young women today are sold the idea that sexiness is the same as sexuality, that being desirable is more important than understanding their own desires.

We've raised a generation of girls to have a voice, to expect egalitarian treatment in the home, in the classroom, in the workplace. Now it's time to demand that "intimate justice" in their personal lives as well.

Whereas discussion of male puberty includes the emergence of a near unstoppable sex drive, female puberty is defined by periods and the possibility of unwanted pregnancy. When do we talk to girls about desire and pleasure?

If we start with that, with wanting girls to see themselves from the inside out rather than outside in , we will go a long way toward helping them find their true happily-ever-afters.

Rather than freedom from traditional constraints, then, girls were free to choose them. Yet, the line between get to and have to blurs awfully fast.

It's just, honey, Cinderella doesn't really do anything.

We are learning to support girls as they 'lean in' educationally and professionally, yet in this most personal of realms, we allow them to topple. It's almost as if parents believe that if they don't tell their daughters that sex should feel good, they won't find out. And perhaps that's correct, they don't. Not easily anyway. But the outcome is hardly what adults could've hoped.

Some chains are the result of things done to us. Some chains are the result of what we needed that we did not have. Although many are due to our own choices, there is hope. - Peggy Park

With the global economy in chaos and the environment of the planet at risk, with war raging and suffering escalating, it is time for each of us in our own lives to take the leap and do whatever we can to help turn things around.

We can make ourselves miserable, or we can make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same. Right

I hold my teachers, beginning with Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, so dear to me because of how they've been able to show me—and model for me—my own potential. It's like meeting a part of yourself that you didn't even know was there.

When we find ourselves in a mess, we don't have to feel guilty about it. Instead, we could reflect on the fact that how we relate to this mess will be sowing the seeds of how we will relate to whatever happens next. We can make ourselves miserable, or we can make ourselves strong. The amount of effort is the same. Right now we are creating our state of mind for tomorrow, not to mention this afternoon, next week, next year, and all the years of our lives.

Any experience can be made into a further blockage or can become a way of freeing ourselves.

Taking refuge is the way that we begin cultivating the openness and the goodheartedness that allow us to be less and less dependent.

Beginning to realize how precious life is becomes one of your most powerful tools.