Quotes About Empowerment

It was a rare moment in American history—unprecedented—when educated women were not only wanted but competed for.

I have just gotten sick of always being called intense, you know?" "Intense is good", Maria saya. "Not for little girls" "For little girls who want to be the first female fighter pilots?

didn't it ever occur to me that what got me here could be the same thing that would make me do well?

While I may hate that I was once fat, I am absolutely thankful that I grew up relying on something other than beauty.

Learn how to be your own heroine, so you too can find your own hero." Right, because why would you want to spend time learning how to be your own heroine if not for the sole purpose of ensnaring a hero?

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

you cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames. For me. Matilda, Great Expectations is such a book. It gave me permission to change my life.

Women are women and can't help themselves.

A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the night in, If that's what you plan to enjoy.

I'd rather be pissed off then pissed on.

I don't need no PMS. I can bitch under my own steam.

Generally, men are superior in the areas of heavy lifting, where there's a past only by pachyderms and building cranes. Beyond that, I believe any right-thinking thinking will see that women have the indisputable advantage.

I ain't taking no more rides on the stupid train.

There is a subtle difference between being a prisoner and being a slave. I don't mistake either for being free.

I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

As Freya Stark herself had put it: 'To be treated with consideration is, in the case of female travellers, too often synonymous with being prevented from doing what one wants.

The great and only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

To be treated with consideration is, in the case of female travellers, too often synonymous with being prevented from doing what one wants.

The whole secret may be summarized in these four words: "Inflame thyself in praying." —ALEISTER CROWLEY38

My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?

When I face myself, I go, "You have a fear of really being on your own. So you know what? That's what we're gonna do right now."