Quotes About Empowerment

You've lost your mind. -Yes, and it's so liberating.

The rights of the homeless would be protected, as long as they could find us. And their voices would be heard through ours.

Everybody wanted a better life away from the streets and drugs and violence and hopelessness.

It was now up to Mary herself to see if she could reshuffle their discarded hand.

Within a week, six thousand men rallied to her cause.

and perfectly capable of bearing children if only she chose to marry.

God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind" (2 Timothy 1:7).

We are not forced to accept the things that grieve us

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.

Racists will always call you a racist when you identify their racism. To love yourself now - is a form of racism. We are the only people who are criticized for loving ourselves. and white people think when you love yourself you hate them. No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.

Every single thing that touches your life, religious, socially and politically, must be an instrument of your liberation or you must throw it into the ashcan of history.

Les autres [leaders de l'époque] suppliaient qu'on nous laisse entrer dans la maison de l'oppresseur, Malcolm [Malcolm X], lui, nous disait de construire notre propre maison

never underestimate the cool of your elders. They might be a kickass pair of lesbian superwomen who lived exactly the fuck the way they wanted to, even in what we now consider to be less enlightened times.

They put us low, and then blame us for being down there and say that since we are low, we can't deserve our rights." Others

It is an important distinction to note that she looked not only as if she had taken good care of herself, but that she had good reason to have done so. (...) She looked to be in such total possession of her life that only the most confident men could continue to look at her if she looked back at them. Even in bus stations, she was a woman who was stared at only until she looked back.

In this dirty-minded world you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore, or fast on your way to becoming one or the other.

She was convinced that women were as often victims of themselves as they were of men.

The day women stop reading—that's the day the novel dies!

As for Jenny, she felt only that women - just like men - should at least be able to make conscious decisions about the course of their lives; if that made her a feminist, she said, then she guessed she was one.

I'm just a woman with a penis! she would say, her voice rising.

DON'T GIVE ME THE SHIVERS,' Owen said.

Hello, my name is Beth. I'm an Ellen Jamesian. And Garp would give her this: Hello, my name is Garp. I have a broken jaw.

Women readers kept fiction alive—here was another one.

In this dirty-minded world, she thought, you are either somebody's wife or somebody's whore—or fast on your way to becoming one or the other. If you don't fit either category, then everyone tries to make you think there is something wrong with you.