Quotes About Empowerment

I cannot stop anyone from making wrong choices. I can only help them make the right ones." There was deep sadness in Ruwach's tone, rooted in love, as if he would have done anything to prevent Brianna from suffering the consequences of her choice.

Because you've got guy parts, you're automatically a better mechanic than me? I don't think so, Eve said, and bailed out of the passenger side.

Don't play his game. Play yours.

Her eyes burned, her muscles ached, but in some strange and secret place, she was happy to finally be doing something that wasn't just protecting herself, but protecting other people, too.

Of course, I thought I was badass at sixteen, too. Wait, I was badass at sixteen. Oh, yeah.

Oh, try not to sound so much like Mom—you don't have the ovaries (Monica Morrell - Last Breath)

So, I guess you're there at your new place. Hope it's awesome. If it's not, you'll make it awesome, because that's what you do. It's your superpower.

I'm still alive. And I'm still fabulous.

It's not the hair. You just--you're something else, Claire. It's like when all the rest of us don't know where to go, you ... just go. You're not afraid.

I've bowed to you for too long, and if I continue to do it, we will all suffer.

You shouldn't have to tiptoe around your own home

You are strong in spite of him. Not because of him.

Dear girls, I can let anyone get hurt because in my world, my safety and well-being come first.

I am not the Library's child! I must acquire my own information, build my own knowledge, and, through experience, transform it to the treasured gold of wisdom.

When all the world is a lock, boy, you don't make a key. You become a key.

She needs you for more than just protection. It's how it works. You want the strong girl, you understand that she's with you because she wants to be. Not because she has to be. You know that, right?

His divine wisdom can kiss my common arse. We blind and hobble half of the world through such ignorance, and I will not have it. Women shall study at the Serapeum as they might be inclined. Let him execute me if he wishes, but I have seen enough of minds wasted in this world. I have a daughter. My daughter will learn.

This one is named Eve, I said. And don't check my teeth like I'm your livestock. I bite back.

One thing you learn early growing up a girl—people always talk, whatever you do," Glain said.

I'm not that woman anymore. In fact, I can hardly recognize her now, that weak creature who'd submitted, pretended, smoothed over every ripple of trouble that rose.

When I'm feeling uncomfortable, I attack. It makes people step off and gives me time to find my way.

Woman, I spend my days hammering nails and building strong walls. I'm plenty manly enough.

He also knows that a gun can't protect you unless you protect yourself mentally, emotionally, and logically. It's the punctuation at the end, not the paragraph.

Some say that women should not read, for they may be led astray into impurity, as if our women are not fit guardians of their own worthiness.