Quotes About Empowerment

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.

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A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

F-E-A-R has two meanings: 'Forget Everything And Run' or 'Face Everything And Rise.' The choice is yours.

I'm done with having a m-man tell me what to d-do." He could carry her out, force her to wait, but she was determined to test herself, see what she was capable of, and he had to give her that room.

You are finally the only person in control of your life. That does not mean it will be easy, but whatever mistakes you make, the injuries you suffer, and your victories are yours to own.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and a sword in my hands.

She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.

If you're silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.

We Afficans try raise our chillun right. When dey say we ign'nant we go together and build de school house. Den de county send us a teacher. We Afficky men doan wait lak de other colored people till de white folks gittee ready to build us a school. We build one for ourself den astee de county to send us de teacher.

Somebody got to think for women and chillun and cows. I god, they sho don't think none theirselves… When Ah see one thing Ah understands ten. You see ten things and don't understand one.

Besides she liked being lonesome for a change. This freedom feeling was fine. These men didn't represent a thing she wanted to know about.

It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual.

Janie, Ah hope God may kill me, if Ah'm lyin'. Nobody else on earth kin hold uh candle tuh you, baby. You got de keys to de kingdom.

John will never forsake the weak and the helpless, nor fail to bring hope to the hopeless. That is what they believe, and so they do not worry. They go on and laugh and sing. Things are bound to come out right tomorrow. That is the secret of Negro song and laughter.

She went on in her overalls. She was too busy feeling grief to dress like grief.

You got de keys to de kingdom.

Uh woman by herself is uh pitiful thing," she was told over and again.

De man dat built things oughta boss it. Let colored folks build things too if dey wants to crow over somethin'.

So I do not pray. I accept the means at my disposal for working out my destiny. It seems to me that I have been given a mind and will power for that very purpose.

Dis ain't no business proposition, and no race after property and titles. Dis is uh love game. Ah done lived Grandma's way, now Ah means tuh live mine.

Their Eyes is a bold feminist novel, the first to be explicitly so in the Afro-American tradition.