Quotes About Empowerment

You must use what you have,' he says, the advice of a good man to a whore for time immemorial. 'You must use what you are allowed.

You too might find that your women friends are your truest friends, your sisters are the keepers of your memories and hopes for the future.

She is a being not of this world," my great-aunt says quietly. "She tried to live like an ordinary woman, but some women cannot live an ordinary life. She tried to walk in the common ways, but some women cannot put their feet to that path. This is a man's world, Jacquetta, and some women cannot march to the beat of a man's drum.

A ficção como sempre, ocupa um lugar secundário face à História; as mulheres reais são sempre mais complexas e mais contraditórias do que as heroínas de um romance, tal como as mulheres reais dos nossos tempos, como as de então, são muitas vezes maiores do que o retrato que delas se faz, por vezes maiores do que o mundo quer que sejam.

There is no freedom for women in this world, fight or not as you like. See where Anne has brought herself.

might be that marriage was not the death of a woman and the end of her true self, but the unfolding of her. It might be that a woman could be a wife without having to cut the pride and the spirit out of herself. A woman might blossom into being a wife, not be trimmed down to fit.

And nobody in this world will ever call me Mrs. Fool.

Militant might in women is named as unfeminine aggression; scholarship in women is diminished into a domestic art. Religious life is viewed as sexual chastity rather than spiritual awakening to an international philosophy.

I'm not a girl, afraid of the unknown, I am a woman; I can face fear, I can walk towards it.

This is how women are treated: when they act on their own account they are named as sinners, when they enjoy success they are named as whores.

We teach our boys and girls to know their fear and step towards it as their friend. To use it as a warning. Far braver to face it than go away.

Nu vreau s? m? gândesc la faptul de a fi o femeie care nu poate tr?i în noua lume pe care o construiesc b?rbaÈ›ii. Nu vreau s? m? gândesc cum s-a ridicat Melusina din fântâna ei artezian? È™i s-a închis într-un castel, cât timp sunt refugiat? în sanctuar È™i noi, toate fiicele Melusinei suntem captive într-un loc, unde nu putem fi pe de-a întregul noi însele".

Every scholarly history that was written before 1920 was written by a man who had been taught by a man, whose thesis would be examined by a man, and whose book would be published by a male publisher and reviewed by a male critic. This could not change until women were admitted to universities and colleges. When women could train as historians in the universities, they could for the first time research, write, and publish scholarly history.

Really, if it were not for Joan of Arc, I would think that girls are completely useless

You must learn that you do not have to be angry just because you have the right to be.

For women not to fear rape because we can successfully defend ourselves against it is not anachronistic but revolutionary. For women to be considered as potential warriors (in every sense of the word, including its physical representation) is not anachronistic but revolutionary. If realized, it might imply a radical change in modern life.

Women must convert their love for and reliance on strength and skill in others to a love for all manner of strength and skill in themselves

A woman needs to be economically independent more than she needs a lover or a child.

If you need to be rescued by someone, become that someone yourself. Become Princess Charming. She is you.

If we are not strong, our offers of help are minimally useful.

You have a responsibility to see that your wounded selves do not get in the way of your warrior selves.

For your information, Lester, there are at least five wonderful parts of the female body that can be viewed by the owner only with a hand mirror.' And as they stared after me, I went regally back down the hallway and up the stairs to Dad's room.

The feminist movement taught women to see themselves as victims of an oppressive patriarchy....Self-imposed victimhood is not a recipe for happiness.

The best thing we can do for our adult children is to get into recovery for ourselves and set them free to find their own way to recovery.