Quotes About Empowerment

I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.

What does scare you?" "I scare me.

Many young girls make that mistake at one time or another—they lose themselves in a boy.

You can keep telling girls to be polite, to keep a level head and it'll all work out in the end. But don't be surprised when they figure out that you've been feeding them lies. Don't be alarmed when they grow tired of using their voices and playing by your rules. And don't be shocked when they decide that if they can't win a fair fight, they'll just have to fight dirty.

I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

Freedom comes from strength and self-reliance.

Think it. See it. Get it!

You are the designer of your destiny; you are the author of your story.

When your clarity meets your conviction and you apply action to the equation, your world will begin to transform before your eyes.

you'll learn how to recognize when you're living in the country called "Sad" in the town called "Victimville" on the street called "Hurt Lane" so you don't stay there longer than you need to.

Your story is important.

When you give yourself permission to have made mistakes in the past—when you begin to trust yourself about making new choices—that's when your intuition becomes reliable and trustworthy.

I have nothing to hide I have nothing to protect I have nothing to prove I have nothing to defend Now..who do I chose to be?

Learn how to ask for what you need in a way that leaves your community feeling not only empowered to give you what you ask for, but inspired to do so.

I was willing to be my own rescuer at the risk of your approval.

Just remember that people make their own choices, and then they live with them. We can try to change them, but we can't make their choices for them. If you do everything you can to help, you have to accept the outcome they bring on themselves.

They don't get to tell you who I am." His voice is a rough growl, low and tight. "I do. I tell you and I show you, so you get the truth—not their fabrication of it." A muscle in his jaw flexes. "Understand?

You can embrace who you really are, and we can be whoever we want to be together.

Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me. —Al Capone CHAPTER

it should be, but you're still hesitating. Why?" "I'm afraid of losing who I am, and being only what he lets me be.

True confidence means you're prepared to work hard enough and smart enough to make your own thunder. You don't need someone else's.

I'm going to have to grow my own teeth.

I know, deep in my heart and soul, that I have to own how I allow myself to process life, how I allow events and people to affect me. I define my character. They do not.

I want you to be there." "Why, Faith?" "Because that painting was the first one I painted for me in a very long time. And you're the first thing I've done for me in a very long time.