Quotes About Empowerment

Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

I don't like the way my arms jiggle.

I learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, that it's O.K. to be pluggish.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.

I've been trying to arrive at a person who is self-defined and able to make my own mistakes rather than having other people make them for me.

Black people, too, are capable of being culturally arrogant.

I really believe that women run the art world.

Peggy Guggenheim is a real hero to have done what she did in a man's world, as the art world still is.

I think it's great when girls are artistic.

I'm grateful for the ascendancy of women in business and politics, which may yet advance the humanity of those callings.

I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.

I've got nothing to be ashamed of.

I'm not ashamed of who I am.

I'm not ashamed to be gay.

I have never been ashamed of whatever I do.

I'm not ashamed of myself.

I do not let anyone make me feel ashamed of being who I am.

She put all her pride and self-love into making him superior to herself, and not in ruling him. Hearts without tenderness covet dominion, but a true love treasures abnegation, that virtue of strength.

Clarissa Harlowe

Pour un pauvre être écrasé par les différents despotismes qui, peu ou prou, pèsent sur toutes les jeunesses, le premier usage du libre arbitre, exercé même sur des riens, apportait à Tâme je ne sais quel épanouissement.

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have knowledge. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion. The present mincing horror at free womanhood must pass if we are ever to be rid of the bestiality of free manhood; not by guarding the weak in weakness do we gain strength, but by making weakness free and strong. —W. E. B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil

Henry Louis Gates's edited The Classic Slave Narratives, which include Jacobs's as well as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, continue to be so important to me.

The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have knowledge. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion. The present mincing horror at free womanhood must pass if we are ever to be rid of the bestiality of free manhood; not by guarding the weak in weakness do we gain strength, but by making weakness free and strong. —W. E. B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil The Debate In the City, my mother had been a nuisance.

But I think Hillary Clinton is one of the most amazing women of this time.