Quotes About Empowerment

I am beautiful as I am. I am the shape that was gifted. My breasts are no longer perky and upright like when I was a teenager. My hips are wider than that of a fashion model's. For this I am glad, for these are the signs of a life lived.

You need to forgive yourself. You need to believe what you did is not more powerful than what God can do from this point forward.

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

STAY WEIRD, DON'T LET OTHERS DEFINE YOU"

When pockets were first added to women's clothing in 1913, a Paris reporter wrote, "It's all over with men's superiority over women." Pockets are indeed indispensable, and they come in two types: patch and set-in

You have to stop looking for someone else to save you. Only you can do that for yourself.

We tell our daughters we don't trust them in a thousand ways. We don't consciously mean to, but we steal their confidence in their own strength by stealing their pain. And their confidence in our strength by saying we aren't strong enough to see them struggle.

Accountability is not about blame, it's not about being wrong, it is about owning the choices you've made, or are making, that create the results you have in your life. And you do create everything in your life.

For so many years, she'd followed a prescription that she'd trusted would result in a beautiful life. Girls don't fight back. They don't get angry. They don't demand things—especially not from men. They are loyal and faithful and quiet and trusting. But slowly, surely, all of those rules had unraveled. It was time to release. To let go. This was why she'd come here.

I don't think you should shape yourself for a boy, or anyone else. I didn't. You need to know deep down, in your own truest self, that you are more powerful when you're not lugging around all that flab. You are in control. You are strong. You are glorious.

Call me the stereotype, then, but what you don't know is that there's more to me than meets the eye. I can be reasonable-girl. I can be reliable-girl. I can be contented-girl, even. I refuse to fit into any set category, so don't even try to stick a label on me because it'll never fully describe who I am. You

At first, I struggled with some of the bigger words, but Kinsella kept his fingernail under each, patiently, until I guessed it or half-guessed it and then I did this by myself until I no longer needed to guess, and read on. It was like learning to ride the bike; I felt myself taking off, the freedom of going places I couldn't have gone before, and it was easy.

Who is he who walks always beside you? No-fucking-body, thank you very much. I walk alone.

I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough.

While other girls were reading teen magazines and romances, you found The Story of O, and it was like a homecoming." "Yes," she breathed. Oh god, yes. "You

You were born for this. Please stand up and remove all your clothes." "I'm

Kurogane, to Fai: You, shut up!! If you want to die that much, I'll kill you myself! But until that day, you're going to live!

The princess is strong. And because she's strong, she's fragile. If somebody doesn't teach her that fact, she'll break.

Knowing what I know today about how deeply the word feminist threatens the existing social compact, to say radical feminist now seems to me almost redundant. (Robin Morgan)

Hand-dyers are never in competition with each other. Rather, we push each other to expand our worlds.

You are the boss of your knitting and can do what you like; there is no "wrong" in knitting as long as you are pleased with the results.

In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.