Quotes About Empowerment

Women, like teeth, should be strong but not prominent.

Just as a woman's heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth.

Rise to the occassion which is life!

If you dont like me, Walk away , Matter of fact Run Away

You ever laughed so hard nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute, no matter what they tried to do to you?

Many women have become teachers who never should have, because it's more appealing than working in the mills or in the fields. Yet, their students suffer." "Because

she had realized she could waste energy with anger and frustration, or simply accept what was and do the best she could to make a difference. If

There are many times you are going to find it difficult to believe in yourself. When you run into those times, try and believe in those who believe in you.

A people afraid were a people trapped in bondage. Break that fear and people would spring forward into freedom and liberty.

But you remember this, boy. Ain't nothin' better than bein' a leader. Ain't nothin' better than knowin' somethin' you done has made life better for folks.

When Beatlemania happened, it was as if the massed multitudes of projected wives-and-mothers of the world had screamed out, with one voice, 'We have been held captive too long, and WE WANT TO BE FREE!

To see and hear what is here, instead of what should be, was, or will be. To say what I feel and think instead of what I should. To feel what I feel instead of what I ought. To ask for what I want instead of always waiting for permission. To take risks on my behalf, instead of choosing to be safe and not rock the boat.

Each morning when you wake up, bow three times before the mirror and say, "The world is a better place because I am here.

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? - not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

Mais, à ce moment précis, je me suis sentie femme, salement femme, comme je ne l'avais jamais senti, comme je ne l'ai plus jamais senti. Défendre ma propre peau ne me permettait pas de blesser un homme.

Je suis plutôt King Kong que Kate Moss, comme fille. Je suis ce genre de femme qu'on n'épouse pas, avec qui on ne fait pas d'enfant, je parle de ma place de femme toujours trop tout ce qu'elle est, trop agressive, trop bruyante, trop grosse, trop brutale, trop hirsute, toujours trop virile, me dit-on.

El feminismo es una aventura colectiva, para las mujeres pero también para los hombres y para todos los demás. Una revolución que ya ha comenzado. Una visión del mundo, una opción. No se trata de oponer las pequeñas ventajas de las mujeres a los pequeños derechos adquiridos de los hombres, sino de dinamitarlo todo.

I know that what girls do with their own clitorises in private isn't exactly my business, but this indifference to masturbation does bother me: if they don't touch themselves when they're alone, when do women connect with their own fantasies? How familiar are they with what really turns them on? And if you don't know that about yourself, what exactly do you know? What relationship can you have with yourself if you systematically hand your genitals over to someone else?