Quotes About Empowerment

You do not need a recipe plan," said Masha. "You are intelligent woman. You know what to do to lose weight, if that's what you want. You are not especially fat. You are not especially thin. You want to be thinner. That is your choice. I find this not so interesting.

that beautiful woman held themselves differently; they swayed like palm trees in the breeze of all that attention. Cecilia wanted her daughters to run and stride and stomp. She didn't want Polly to bloody sway.

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.

Anyway, men don't rule the world. We have a female prime minister. And you rule your world. You rule the Fitzpatrick household.

C'est à la mère de surveiller son enfant. Et tant pis pour le féminisme. Pam était capable de hurler sur les toits pour défendre l'égalité des salaires, mais toutes les femmes savaient qu'on ne pouvait pas compter sur les hommes en société. Il était scientifiquement prouvé qu'ils étaient incapables de faire deux choses à la fois!

The suffragettes didn't starve themselves for the vote so that you girls could starve yourselves for a man.

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

matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." His eyes gleamed in the shadows from the candlelight. "That's, ah, from Nelson Mandela's favorite poem, 'Invictus.

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

Fuck it, maybe she'd even get her hair cut.

Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. —The classic conscious auto-suggestion created by the famous French psychologist and pharmacist (the "father of auto hypnosis"), Émile Coué (1857–1926)

Conversations with women about work could be so fraught.

Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?" Nicole asked. "You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it's longer than three sentences or she's expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, 'Sorry for the rant' or 'That may be dumb, but that's what I think.

I had never thought much about being the first woman to win the race. I thought of myself as just a sled dog racer, not a woman sled dog racer. But there was no denying that if my winning encouraged other women not to underestimate themselves, then I was happy to have helped.

Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself.

Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

When we rise above our temptations and resist them, we exercise self-control. And that's when we experience true freedom and emotional health.

Freedom is the crux of self-respect. It is difficult to feel good about ourselves when we are unnaturally dependent on someone or something.

Im a boss, your man is just an employee mami. Let me upgrade you.

I think positively, you cant harm me mentally, not physically, not spiritually, youll never get rid of me.

I want that freedom to move around outdoors, to do so without always feeling watched, threatened, restricted, or accountable to someone. To not be a babe—innocent or lusty. To just be in the woods.

Many women who become mothers continue to alpine climb, surf big waves, ski steep remote slopes, fight wildfires, and more. And why shouldn't they?