Quotes About Empowerment

Don't let anyone make you feel like you don't deserve what you want.

I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one, either.

well, LOVE and gay rights - three cheers for straight girls who max out on helping gay guys)

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.

Every time two boys kiss, it opens up the world a little bit more.

Dude, nobody puts baby in a corner.

You are here for the headstrong girl who will grow up to be president or something more important, like an English teacher

Everything--the section of comfortable chairs in the middle, the long colourful chains that dangled lights from the ceiling--seemed designed to make you feel like you were part of something larger, without actually being made to feel small.

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that is how it is, this is how it will be.

But we haven't been there for you. We've been here. Watching as you become the role models.

I guess it's a choice we make, she said. What's a choice? I asked. And she said, How much of the world we let it.

Are you going to be someone who takes charge of her feelings and her actions, even if the outcome might hurt, or someone who lets herself be unhappy simply because she won't ask for what she wants?

But this is what losing most of your friends does: It makes you unafraid.

I am in control of the body, and as long as I am in control of the body, I will not allow it to hurt itself.

I have to let go of some other things in order not to crash right into the ground. I no longer give a fuck. I mean, I didn't think I gave a fuck before. But that was amateur not-giving-afuck. This is stop-at-nothing, don't-give-a-fuck freedom.

i don't want my body to be a temple. i don't want it to be worshiped or congregated.

And what is a girl without curves if not, well, a boy?

Freedom isn't just about voting and marrying and kissing on the street, although all of these things are important. Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possibly. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be -A

It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow from shadow, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there...and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him, you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you. -Ben

It's just nice to see you out from his shadow. Because things don't grow in shadows, you know? So it was frustrating to see you standing there... and really cool to see you step out of it. I don't know who this new guy is, but make sure when you're with him you're not standing in his shadow. Stand where everyone can see you.

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you loves sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.

They beat the shit out of me," he told people, soon after. "But you know what? I didn't need that shit inside of me. I'm glad it's gone.

En este sitio, en este momento, somos quienes queremos ser. Soy afortunado porque yo no necesito mucho coraje. Pero otros, en cambio, necesitan una valentía enorme para estar aquí.