Quotes About Empowerment

Philosophy wants us to get ourselves out of trouble by utilising our own resources,

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.

Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.

I pity you. All your life you are going to be paralyzed by What Is Done, by what people tell you you should think or do... The best thing that could happen to you would be for you to be uncomfortable once in a while.

Cleaning women: You will get a lot of liberated women. First stage is a CR group; second stage is a cleaning woman; third, divorce.)

Good teachers are door openers in to that wisdom you already have inside

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

the lost women I need to know their names those women I would have walked with, jauntily the way men go in groups swinging their arms, and the ones those sweating women whom I would have joined After a hard game to chew the fat what would we have called each other laughing joking into our beer? where are my gangs, my teams, my mislaid sisters? all the women who could have known me, where in the world are their names?

I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people's craziness has not managed to make me crazy.

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

If someone gives you permission, they can take it away. I give myself permission.

i am rejuvenated bones rising from the dear floor where they found you

these hips are big hips. they need space to move around in. they don't fit into little petty places.

America made us heroines not wives. We hid our ladyness to save our lives

you have your own story you know about the fears the tears the scar of disbelief you know that the saddest lies are the ones we tell ourselves you know how dangerous it is to be born with breasts you know how dangerous it is to wear dark skin

Here's what I advise any young struggling actress today: The important thing is to develop as a woman first, and a performer second. You wouldn't prostitute yourself to get a part, not if you're in the right mind. You won't be happy, whatever you do, unless you're comfortable with your own conscience.

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

There's so many other things to write about than unrequited love.

La suerte de las instituciones libres, el porvenir de la democracia y de la libertad serán siempre inseguros mientras la masas populares permanezcan en la ignorancia y atraso.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

A great step toward independence is a good humored stomach.