Quotes About Empowerment

If you have a good community behind you and a good family supporting you, then, when the buck stops with you, there is the strength of that community and that family to draw upon.

Nobody can give you freedom, nobody can give you equality or justice. If you are a man, you take it.

Always Try And Be Kind To Other People - Especially Women And Children.

I am not the girl the guy gets at the end of the movie. I am not a fantasy. If you want me, earn me.

If you don't define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

I have a lot of fantasies about being tied up and spanked. I suppose it isn't very liberated, is it? What kind of fantasies do feminists have?

Pick up your clothes. I am not your maid. How do I know this? A maid cannot kill you with a tube sock. I can.

Love her enough to let her live.

I'd gone from living alone in New York as a lowly shoe clerk to becoming a shieldmaiden with a family to come home to. It didn't get much better than that.

If he came back in and ventured just a step too close to me, I would do it. I had been tempered in a furnace of Stickings' making, and I had come out stronger.

There is no shame in being afraid.

All it takes is one small voice to make a difference." ~Artum Keogh~

It was my father who taught me to value myself.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.'

It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.

The white fathers told us: I think, therefore I am. The black goddess within each of us - the poet - whispers in our dreams: I feel, therefore I can be free.

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.