Quotes About Empowerment

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

Go fuck yourself. Or get spayed. Either would an improvement.

Lilith Saintcrow

Lilith Saintcrow

But when a girl's motivated, miracles are possible.

Mi sento dire spesso: «Eh, ma ormai siete dappertutto», come se fossimo una specie di epidemia. Facciamo qualsiasi mestiere, possiamo conquistare ogni carica, in fondo. Siamo protagoniste delle pubblicità e dei film. Ma se è per questo, di immagini femminili è piena da sempre anche la pornografia. Non è la quantità a fare la visibilità. È la considerazione, è l'autorevolezza, sono i ruoli che ricopriamo.

Certain people bring out certain traits in each other. Don't you think? If I had a husband, for example, who said, 'Your typing makes my brain work batter,' I would not be so ashamed of my impulse to work.

I've met ambitious women, driven women, but no woman has ever told me that greatness was her destiny.

I have no fears today,' I scribble...I'm stunned by the truth of it.

I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.

I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.

To me, 'sexual freedom' means freedom from having to have sex.

I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. And then I realized I was somebody.

Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man

always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. And then I realized I was somebody.

It seems this time being a grass widow has been good for you; this temporary emancipation from my domination is allowing you to develop your own identity.

Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women access to the mainstream of society.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Of all the rights of woman, the greatest is to be a mother

Each man shall do precisely as he pleases with himself, and with all those things which exclusively concern him.

You can't give people pride, but you can provide the kind of understanding that makes people look to their inner strengths and find their own sense of pride.

Choose something big that you think it's really not okay to want, something you think would make you seem greedy or selfish if you asked for it. And make sure it's something you really do want. Then ask for it. Whether you get it or not, fight your impulse to apologize or feel bad. Tell yourself it's okay to want what you want. Combat the impulse to scale back out of fear that you're overreaching.

for women. These results suggest that men are asking for things they want and initiating negotiations much more

Presenting her case calmly and positively, even in the face of his angry outburst, won the rest. "His first instinct was to bully me," she said. "But when he saw that that wasn't going to work, he settled down and we mapped out a plan to get me started with my own clients.