Quotes About Empowerment

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

the threat of adversity is a necessary factor in stimulating self-reliance.

Girls can do anything these days.

I have extremely little courage myself, much less than you; but I have found that whenever, after a long struggle, I have screwed my courage up to do something I always felt much freer & happy after it.

I was able to liberate Soon-Yi from a terrible situation and provide her with an opportunity to flower and realize her potential, and she would never have to eat a bar of soap or long for a hug or get hit with a phone again.

The world is filled with people who are no longer needed -- and who try to make slaves of all of us -- and they have their music and we have ours.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. Poetry depends upon intellectual freedom. And women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.

Whenever you meet someone or walk into a room or consider taking on a new project, it is Who-You-Think-You-Are who walks into the room, who introduces himself, and who considers the new project. Who-You-Think-You-Are determines how you stand, whether you hold yourself proudly erect or whether you slouch.

In all circumstances, what you believe determines your actions. Your actions determine your future. The choice of how you live and what becomes of you is in your own hands.

Los senos son como el dinero, ninguno acepta que los necesita pero ninguno deja de pensar en ellos. Un mujer con el escote en su lugar tiene todas las armas para mover el mundo.

Los tímidos somos capaces de cualquier cosa

Una no aprende a ser puta en los bares, ni en las fiestas, ni en la calle. La putería se aprende en soledad.

Because to suffer and do nothing is to be nothing, while to suffer and do something is to become someone.

I am magical: I can bleed for five days and not die.

Her fear was something useless that only hampered her.

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?

MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty . She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction.

If you as a woman don't have respect for yourself don't expect for a man to respect you.

Whisper to the flashing water your real name, write your signature in the sand, and shout your identity to the sky until it answers to you in thunder.

The end comes to all of us...but the end comes quicker to those who do not live their lives as they choose. If your life is not your own, then in what way is it living?

We've got a motto here-you're tougher than you think you are, and you can do more than you think you can.

Sometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man.