Quotes About Empowerment

If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.

Love means more to me than being sexually compatible. It means being an important part of your life as you'll be in mine. It means encouraging you to be everything you've ever wanted to be, sharing in your triumphs and comforting you in your failures. It means giving you the courage to try again. That's what love is all about.

it takes a hell of a man to replace no man.

If you don't take care of yourself, no one else will.

God takes each one of us exactly where we are and so do I. Instead of focusing on the past, I prefer to look at the potential God has given each of us.

Her life was her own now and if there was happiness to be found, it was up to her to seek it. She couldn't, wouldn't rely on anyone else ever again.

I've lived most of my life trying to please others. I don't think I can do that anymore.

you need to take the initiative.

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You are created to be your husband's helper, not his conscience, not his vocation director, and certainly not his critic.

it made her angry, and since she could do nothing with her anger, it made her sad.

All girls [should read] THE BREADWINNER by Deborah Ellis. ~ Malala Yousafzai

Which do you think is more important, Binti- jobs of freedom of speech?' Binti thought for a moment. 'It depends on how poor you are.

It was beyond frustrating to have circumstances always dictating her life. When would she ever get to make a choice about how her life looked?

True confession: My dad wouldn't leave for Haiti until I proved to him that I could change a tire. According to him, that's like the one life skill you must know for human survival. That, and how to fry bacon.

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open. —Muriel Rukeyser

As ambitious women, we need to tell one another our stories. We need to tell the truth about our lives.

how getting into the habit of feeling comfortable turning to her network to ask for help has made her more effective:

There is, in fact, a primary driving force behind women's reluctance to see their ambition as a virtue.

She is focused on living her own full life, following her own agenda and cultivating her actual self, rather than reinventing herself or pining away to be someone she's not.

harness your own power though what you keep to yourself

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you. —JEANNE MOREAU

Bring your own body.