Quotes About Empowerment

Girls who land broken are easy prey.

Sephie finding three boys picking on me on the playground and pushing them down, fierce as an Amazon.

I have two options in this world. I can allow what is happening around me to control me, to break me, to destroy me and make me a twisted, angry shell of a person, as it has done to so many others. Or I can rise above it. There is ugliness around me, but there is beauty, too. I will find whatever I seek.

I think he came to believe it was better to choose your life, and that even choosing your death was better than letting someone else choose your life.

With all due respect, sir," she said, "I do not believe justice will ever be truly possible, economic or otherwise, for any human being, until we have once and for all emancipated the vagina.

I never wanted to fall in love. Only stupid girls compromised themselves that way, and I was too smart to sell myself short.

I was just another stupid girl waiting for Prince Charming to give me true love's first kiss, and I hated myself for it.

That's the thing about music. You get to make it mean whatever you need it to mean.

We run through the remnants of our pain, and more importantly, we run for our present and for our future. Together we kick heartbreak's ass.

You don't get to pick which parts of me you find acceptable and throw away what you don't.

You have taught me that I am allowed to like myself as I am, at whatever stage I am in. I can change, I can stay the same, or I can be whoever it is that is right for me; but I can be satisfied. No, more than that. I can be proud. I can celebrate. That is what I am going to do.

We are not goddamn statistics. We will never be. We are the exception, and we are exceptional. Got it?

She's fragile because you let her be fragile.

We'll listen to old-school Kelly Clarkson power songs and sing until we lose our voices." "That is not a good plan." Celeste turned and peered into the back of the car.

We refuse to let the past wreck our today. That's why we're the team that we are.

You will be his pillar of strength!" Julie prompted. "That is a vile cliché, and I will not say that.

Your choice comes from strength, not from dependence. - Justin

You need songs that make you feel. Some make you strong, some make you weak. Some build determination, some tear you apart. But you need all of those.

At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now I feel like they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory.

I will shrink myself no longer to make any human feel secure

We all need to demand the happiness for ourselves we desire. Fight for it. Wrestle it out of the clenched fist of the world you live in

And believing that we are broken is the same as being broken. It means we experience ourselves that way. That perception shapes our reality. It is an illusion we must strive to avoid, as great misery comes from such a belief.

love yourself,.,.,.,for the sake of your better future

Books are the best means—private, discreet, reliable—of overcoming reality.