Quotes About Empowerment

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Children, I grant, should be innocent but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

Of women I do not wish them to have power over men but over themselves.

And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.

I will eat what I want and look as I please and laugh as loud as I like and use the wrong fork and lick my knife.

Why must the power of the female body cancel the power of the female mind? Are we so afraid of having both?

For all its God language, the Twelve Step program isn't actually an attempt at religious conversion. Really, it just tries to bring us to a place of new spiritual understanding that allows us to live differently in this world.

I have a word. Now it will be better. Now it has a name, and if it has a name, it's a real thing, not merely my imagination gone wild. If it has a name, if it isn't merely an utter failure on my part, if it's a disease, bipolar disorder, then it has an answer. Then it has a cure.

I relish my life. It is a life of which I am fiercely protective. I have wrested it back from madness, and madness cannot take it from me again. I will not throw it away. So what if it isn't a normal life? It's the one I have.

We deserve more. Vastly more. Sufficiency, plenty, abundance. Not the denial of body that is no more than a metaphor for our denial of self.

We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.

He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath. And he let go of my arm and walked back down the hall.

Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.

Control yourself and no one else And you will see the Truth my brother

Marybeth Gasman

we also discover that much of our most potent creative energy arises from the flames of past injustices and inhibited creative efforts.

A smart girl leaves before she is left

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.

Complaining doesn't butter the biscuit" -Agatha Swanburne

Agatha Swanburn - "Never underestimate a Swanburn girl, for a Swanburn girl never underestimates herself.

If you keep having these positive thoughts all the time, miraculously you will naturally be able to do as your thoughts predicted.