Quotes About Empowerment

Lord Palmerston and John F. Kennedy proudly broadcast the Latin phrase Civis Romanus sum ('I am a Roman citizen') as a slogan for their times.

A woman did not take her husband's name or fall entirely under his legal authority. After the death of her father, an adult woman could own property in her own right, buy and sell, inherit or make a will and free slaves – many of the rights that women in Britain did not gain till the 1870s.

Temos de pensar melhor acerca do que é o poder, para que serve e como é medido. Por outras palavras, se as mulheres não são encaradas como estando completamente dentro das estruturas de poder, decerto é o poder que tem de ser redefinido e não as mulheres?

Mary Beth Williams

You can't catch a creature like that anymore than you can catch a person. You can only create an environment they might want to live in. The rest is up to them.

Why do some women feel their only value is in their body? Why do they continue to stuff their shapes into too-tight dresses, their feet into stilettos, their brains into closed vaults that can't breathe and subsequently suffocate? Why do they tuck and nip and smooth when the ultimate beauty isn't on the surface at all? And why do they not see this?

Would you like a menu in Braille?

She didn't think she was better than hearing people, simply equal. She didn't want more rights than they had, she wanted the same. She didn't want to change the way they led their lives, she just wanted to be left alone to live hers. It was draining to constantly be looked at as deficient, handicapped, in need of fixing. Other people's opinions—that was the handicap she faced, not her hearing loss!

I'm probably a little more like my dad. But because of my mom, I never saw being a woman as being an impediment to being able to do something. She had her Ph.D. before I was born.

While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach.

As the brains of colored women expanded, their hearts began to grow. No sooner had the heads of a favored few been filled with knowledge than their hearts yearned to dispense blessings to the less fortunate of their race.

I will not shrink from undertaking what seems wise and good, because I labor under the double handicap of race and sex; but, striving to preserve a calm mind with a courageous, cheerful spirit, barring bitterness from my heart, I will struggle all the more earnestly to reach the goal.

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave.

The woman born to physical subjection and degradation can never seek or use knowledge as her birthright. Never till she holds her sex in honor, as man holds his, can she be his equal, even in her own realm.

There is no end of good that comes from being married to a smart woman.

I leave before being left. I decide.

Trust your husband, adore your husband, and get as much as you can in your own name.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to become.

Love is louder than the pressure to be perfect.

A woman is truly beautiful only when she is naked and she knows it.

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.