Quotes About Empowerment

Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks.

In the bad old days, men kept women from choosing to work. In the bad new days, women keep women from choosing to stay home.

And those women with the camera looked loose. Excellent , Phin thought. At last, some good news.

I believe things will work out for us if we just believe in ourselves.

I'm a feminist," Quinn said. "We get irrational urges.

Breasts are very important for women. Their clothes just don't hang right without them.

Jennifer Crusie

Sexy is in your head and you don't feel sexy so you don't look it.

Laugh while you can, Monkey Girl

What she did speak of was freedom, the ability to come and go as she pleased and, most importantly, to climb. Jim, she felt, was the man who could give her the keys to that independence.

With barely two francs to rub together, she traveled alone and on a shoestring, living on the food she'd packed. While rejoicing in again finding herself independent and teetering thousands of feet above the valley floor, negotiating life-and-death moves on the rock walls and being responsible to no one but herself.

While rejoicing in again finding herself independent and teetering thousands of feet above the valley floor, negotiating life-and-death moves on the rock walls and being responsible to no one but herself.

Aye. And I can do without a viper-tongued wench.Wench? Wench? Lass is one thing, but did you just call me a wench? I'll have you know I'm a doctor. No one calls me a wench. I passed my boards with flying colors. I could take you apart and put you back together with my eyes closed.

Ultimately, we can never change someone else's behavior—we can only change our own.

You have to take care of yourself, your body, your mind, take care of your soul—be your own keeper.

Because you can't expect to be treated great if you don't first believe that you are great.

Because the truth is, nobody knows what's best for you better than you do. You have to really sit still and ask yourself: What do I want? Does this feel right? What should I do? I realized I had to go back and do what I had always done. Listening to my gut was just as important as listening to the advice of others, and only I knew what was best for me.

You have to be okay on your own before you can have a healthy relationship with another person.

If you keep hearing negative things about yourself, they start to seep into your consciousness and you start to feel like they're true. They cloud who you know you really are and you can lose yourself.

Through the kids, I had started to understand more about love and what it was to truly give love and receive it. I learned that there are certain things it's not okay to accept, and that was making me feel powerful and strong.

Write down everything that you accomplished today. Instead of a "to do" list, this is a "done" list. Include everything!

She wished she'd spent more time teaching her girls that women should forgive themselves, showing them how to take care of themselves with kindness. The world was hard enough, would beat them up enough without them adding to the pain.

I was going to eat to nourish myself, I was going to exercise to feel strong and healthy, I was going to let go of the idea of ever being thin, once and for all, and live my life in the body that I had.

You're allowed to want to use your education. You're allowed to want to be more than a mother.