Quotes About Empowerment

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.

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. -Ben

I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.

The point of books was to combat loneliness

Female choice about when, where, with whom, and under which conditions they consent to sex is the deepest and most fundamental component of women's sexual psychology. It is a fundamental human right. Although men have coevolved strategies to undermine it, that freedom of choice should never be compromised.

Women who make more money than their husbands tend to leave them.

For women, more economic freedom translates into more sexual freedom.

I have long since stopped caring what others think, he said. --- Of me or of anything else.

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.

your a nobody, an it

One of the laws of consciousness is: We are only subject to a negative thought or belief if we consciously say that it applies to us. We are free to choose not to buy into a negative belief system.

For our purposes, it is really only necessary to recognize that power is that which makes you go strong, while force makes you go weak. Love, compassion, and forgiveness, which may be mistakenly seen by some people as submissive, are in fact profoundly empowering. Revenge, judgmentalism, and condemnation, on the other hand, inevitably make you go weak.

The truth is liberating—but only when you have the courage to live it.

Weak people are destructive; powerful people are constructive. Powerful people create, facilitate, and make things happen.

Autonomy and independence involve taking care of yourself—not doing things that diminish you.

It means 'female dog,'" I'd explained to my sisters, "but it also means 'a woman who's crabby and won't let you be yourself.

Back off, world. It's time for me to be good to me.

If you think I'm putting my bra back on for this bullshit, you are so sorely mistaken.

When shit brings you down, just say 'fuck it,' and eat yourself some motherfucking candy.")

If you think I'm putting my bra back on for this bullshit, you

When shit brings you down, just say 'fuck it,' and eat yourself some motherfucking candy.

It made me realise that nothing comes easy; nothing is given to you. In Africa I realised you have to make things happen for yourself.

Augustus" (from the verb augeo "to make to grow or to increase")