Quotes About Empowerment

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist.

Such prizes and punishments are, if I may be allowed the expression, the bench of the soul, the instrument of slavery for the spirit.

I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.

Well-behaved women never make history.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

you are the leader you've been looking for

Forgiveness is letting go of the need to feel like a victim. Work on it. You'll lighten your load—the load of negativity you carry around.

we should look at the things he can do ...not at what he can't do.

Writing, and creativity in general, had been the domain of "great men" and would stay there until women stormed the arena, using words as their weapons.4

Look how we have made our broken hearts soar.

Preach Jesus and hold unto God until the signs follow. There is something wrong unless they do follow. Don't wait until you have any special gift. Believe you can do it and it will be done.

El que és segur és que hem guanyat la batalla contra la norma. Ja era hora. ("Ens fem imatges dels fets", Serra d'Or, 1981)

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.

No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.

Because what she disliked in men was not their eroticism, but their assumption that women had none. Which left women with nothing to be but housemaids.

Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.