Quotes About Empowerment

She might not do it tonight, and she might not do it with that French boy, but she was going to get laid, and soon, because she was forty-three years old and she damn well needed it.

A divorcée empty nester who didn't regret her solitude? She was a goddamn unicorn of selfishness.

In his eyes was everything she'd ever wanted as a girl, everything she'd given up on years before. Emma had grown weary of waiting for rescue. She'd had to rescue herself and she would never forget that.

I was excited because getting to know oneself was exciting. I was beginning to believe that I had the power to influence my own personality.

But you know you don't have to mirror that attitude, right? I mean, wouldn't it be better to be your own dazzling portrait rather than someone else's reflection

For coffee-stained girls in libraries.

In a world where men have always been in charge, it was hard for women to break through. But Ka'ahumanu was different. She was born to rule (Kneubuhl 27)

And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.

Idealizing Daddy is grand when you're five; it's crippling when you're twenty-five or thirty-five. For if you still believe in Daddy's miracles, you may not believe that you can make your own dreams come true. Worse, you may not even be able to formulate them without his guidance

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.

The good father does not have to be perfect . Rather, he has to be good enough to help his daughter to become a woman who is reasonably self-confident, self-sufficient, and free of crippling self-doubt, and to feel at ease in the company of men.

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

I'm forty-six years old and I don't care who knows it, but what I will tell you is that when a woman is forty-six and has lived her life the way she's wanted to live it, she knows everything there is to know about what to do in the sack.

Are you going to be the kind of person who always pays the asking price?" my mother demanded. "Or the kind who fights to find out what something's really worth?

Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything

give a woman the chance to reject something else besides me

W]ho would have thought that by the mid-twentieth century the darker nations would gather in Cuba, once the playground of the plutocracy, to celebrate their will to struggle and their will to win? What an audacious thought: that those who had been fated to labor without want, now wanted to labor in their own image!

The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Just be to yourself.

Think of many things. Never place your happiness in one person's power. Be just to yourself.

A person who is not ashamed will do whatever he wants.

A woman has either something to put on or nothing to take off.

Be strong and capable. Do whatever you set your mind to. Fill yourself with strength and confidence.