Quotes About Empowerment

With a stranger's hands, you can tie a string around a cat's neck." In other words: If you care about the results, do it yourself.

One of the most important things to learn in life and love is that I can be responsible only for what I can control. While I can't control my husband (or anyone else), I can control me.

If we haven't chosen what we are living for, we're living life by default, acting out the scripts handed to us by family, other people's agendas, and the pressures of circumstances. This is not living as a woman who knows the meaning and purpose of life.

When does a woman become an adult? Perhaps it's when she stops comparing her life to other women's.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

I was looking very much for a career. My second marriage to Stan Herman had ended, and I wanted very much to be independent, not take alimony from him, be on my own, do the right thing.

Stay strong. Know you are not the first woman to be duped by a man. You won't be the last. But from now on, you'll be a lot wiser in your choices.

Give your fear to God and you'll discover that oftentimes, by changing your reaction, the other person will change their behavior.

We are no longer kidnapped, for we walk with God and his spirit lives inside us.

Think of the miraculous ways God could use you if you were able to hold on to who you are in Christ.

I'm tired of being Scarlett O'Hara. In my next life I'm going to come back as Melanie Wilkes, fragile and helpless.

Battaglia gagged her. Told her to take the high road. Fuck the high road, I said. It's usually a dead end. --Mike Chapman to Lee, Crime Scene Photographer.

More focus and less stress? Sounds like a good thing for women who want to do it all!

No One Needs You That Much

Helena Rubinstein, captures this concept perfectly: "There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

No person, whether she is a scientist or a cook, can find success if she doesn't first believe that she holds power in her hands— not to use over people, but to use for the good of another.

The real question isn't "Why aren't you strong enough?" It's "Why do you keep doubting that you already are?

The real question isn't "Why aren't you strong enough?". It's "Why do you keep doubting that you already are?".

Mothers are strong enough to let their daughters find out who they really are, and daughters are stong enough to realize that mistakes or no, every mother has done the best she can ... and if she's lucky, her own daughter will one day give her the same gift of understanding.

In order to cultivate a set of leaders with legitimacy in the eyes of the citizenry, it is necessary that the path to leadership be visibly open to talented and qualified individuals of every race and ethnicity,

Do you want to know why men name their penis? So the most important decisions in their life aren't made by a stranger.

Do you want to know why men name their penis? So the most important decisions in their life aren't made by a stranger.

I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of a man.

Although I was terribly let down after that, there was one good side to the experience. The more that decent people became interested in me for decent reasons, the stronger I became.