Quotes About Empowerment

You are a woman in the prime of your life! You should march into a room with your head held high! Like you are walking onto a stage, a battlefield!

Sometimes a girl has to stop waiting around and come up with her own fairytale ending.

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. He loved her so much, he made her seem even more lovable.

She enjoyed being told off by them. She could hear the rhythms of her own voice, her mother's voice, her grandmother's voice, every relieved cranky woman from the beginning of time.

Anyway, weren't women allowed to be sexist for the next two thousand years or so, until they'd evened up the score?

You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it Rumi

There was something pathetic about the rejected wife bravely pulling herself together, joining a tennis club, doing a photography course, cutting her hair, venturing timidly back out onto the single scene.

Jane walked into the playground feeling a strange sense of calm. Perhaps she needed to learn from Madeline's example. No more avoiding confrontation. March up to your critics and bloody well tell them what you think.

Madison rolled her eyes. "No. I won't care if people say mean things to me, because I'll be grown up. I can just say, 'Who cares? I'm going to France.' " Ah.

Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

The cycles of dysfunction and mental illness did not have to carry over from generation to generation. You just had to educate yourself. Erika

A woman would be more intelligent, obviously.

It's starting, Cecilia had thought sadly. She wished she could give Isabel a shield, like the ones riot police held, to protect her from male attention, that feeling of being scored each time you walked down a street, the demeaning comments yelled out of cars, that casual sweep of the eyes.

They probably felt like it was the end of the world. But it turned out to be the making of them. The lowest point of your life can lead to the highest.

It's no big deal. It is a big deal. They have no right to make you feel that way. Or, just ignore it, one day you'll turn forty and you'll slowly realize you don't feel the eyes anymore, and the freedom is a relief, but you'll also sort of miss it, and when a truck driver whistles at you while you're crossing the road, you'll think, Really? For me?

now her voice was loud and clear. "This can happen to anyone.

You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it Rumi Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it. George Carlin

She was twenty-five before it occurred to her that she could have insulted him back, but the rule of life was that the boys got to decide which girls were pretty; it didn't really matter how ugly they were themselves.)

But each time she didn't leave, she gave him tacit permission to do it again. She knew this. She was an educated woman with choices, places to go,

Doing this always calmed her. It was like imagining the protective walls of an impenetrable fortress. She

Don't let your heart be a casualty of your head." She wanted Masha to understand that her state of mind was just as important as the state of her body.

She might have lost a husband, but she'd got herself a wife. An efficient, energetic young wife. What a bargain. What an upgrade.

Change your own tyre, ya big fucken' pussy!' Then he'd closed the window, grinned sheepishly, and said, 'Don't tell your mother.

Come on. We're not going to let her bother