Quotes About Empowerment

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

Many people in the village wanted her to be more of a girl, and Peter had wanted her to be large and brave but a little less large and brave than him. But Pine Sap was sure enough to want her to be exactly who she was.

The only way someone can leave you is if you let them.

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.

The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.

She became whoever she needed to be to survive,but she never let anyone else define her.

The best parenting advice I ever got was from a labor nurse who told me the following: 1. After your baby gets here, the dog will just be a dog. 2. The terrible twos last through age three. 3. Never ask your child an open-ended question, such as Do you want to go to bed now? You won't want to hear the answer, believe me. Do you want me to carry you upstairs, or do you want to walk upstairs to go to bed? That way, you get the outcome you want and they feel empowered.

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask How high? She goes out and buys a pogo stick.

You could only save someone that wanted to be saved; otherwise, you'd be dragged down for the count, too.

We could all be lucky. We could all be what we want to be, instead of who someone else told us to be.

being a woman has meant being someone who gets talked over in conversations or ignored; someone who gets judged as a body instead of as a sentient soul; someone who, no matter who you are or what you are doing, always has to be on guard, lest someone else decide that you're going to be his victim.

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

The ability to find sparks may be buried so deep in you that you stop believing there's a God. Until someone comes along, with so much light in her that you can't help but see your own, and when you're together,that light grows even brighter.

I had not asked to be rescued, true, but that did not mean I didn't need saving.

Eric understands that the world is rarely the way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.

Wondering why white people named girl babies things like Hope and Faith and Patience - names they could never live up to - and black mothers called their daughters Mercy, Deliverance, Salvation - crosses they'd always have to bear.

The whole point of this examination is to make me feel lesser than... but I have spent 20 years seeing how beautiful women are. Not because of how they look, but because of what their bodies can withstand.

Arise and do thy sacred work.

Throw away the rule book and create your own.

The only job a parent has is work themselves out of a job.

So, a word to all you Femin-Idi-Amins: Stop "liberating" moms by trying tomake them join the workforce. They're already doing the job that God putthem here to do: Everything.

I have learned that as soon as you introduce controls on human behavior, you lose the game, particularly when those controls are at odds with the work.

Work gives us access and opportunities.