Quotes About Empowerment

Once, the thing I am wearing was a sundress, with fluttery sleeves. A diaphanous white gown that flowed around me when I spun. I found it in a shop late one night. I'd stripped off the clothes given to me in the Court of Teeth, left them behind, and put that on instead. I liked the dress so much that I wove myself a crown of hellebores and danced through the night streets. I stared at myself in puddles, convinced that as long as I didn't smile, I might even be pretty.

If you hurt me, I wouldn't cry. I would hurt you back.

What could I become if I stopped worrying about death, about pain, about anything? If I stopped trying to belong? Instead of being afraid, I could become something to fear.

Amanda was in the forefront of my

To see a player dunk in women's college basketball is just amazing. It's great to see that the game has reached that level now.

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

Be willing to turn your attention to that which serves you.

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever.

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

My lesbianism is not linked to sexual preference. For me, it is part of my world view, part of my passion for women and central in my objection to male domination.

Do these two things every day for Huck: number one: make him feel good about himself, and, number two: allow him to figure out how to do things on his own. Those two simple steps. Every day. It's all he needs to plow forward and grow into a strong, happy man.

She was not a Respectable Married Woman but fully a human being.

I am for the largest liberty for the poor man -- for the oppressed.

Just let your light shine! That's about all you have to do. One of the things that this far-out righteous cat named Krishnamarti says is that you don't change the world, you change yourself. The world is a projection of yourself and you change the world around you.... That's how the world gets changed. (Gridley)

'I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.' This is the dream of the African girl.

We go into rural communities, and all we do — like has been done in this room [at TED] — is create the space. When these girls sit … you unlock great leaders.

I gravitate toward women.

Why do women have to suffer this way? Why don't we have the freedom men have?

I lost interest in the condition of humans, but I never lost interest in the human condition.

It was great fun to think of myself as a doll I could bring to life.

All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.

He got Alice, the way we did, or maybe even more so than us. He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light.

Women and their bodies! The most abusive and toxic of relationships.