Quotes About Empowerment

I've been told my whole life that I've got all the power. But it's only now that I'm beginning to believe it. My days of selling junk food and perfume are over. If the world is going to listen to me, I better start saying things that are worth hearing.

We help others only as much as they let us.

I pray that it will be different when they're our age. I pray for a cure to the Virus so they can choose not to share their bodies before they're ready. I pray that they will have the power to choose when and how they will marry, make love, make babies. And I pray that they will not be judged if they choose not to do those things in the "right" order.... My sister and I close our eyes. We dream of a better world. We imagine what we can - and will - do to make it possible.

Would That All Yahweh's People Were Prophets!"(Numbers 11:29)

All my life they had made choices for me, and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine, and once it was made, I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege, to blame others, unexpectedly stung.

I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights.

when women acquire critical skills and start weighing their options, they soon wise up to the fact that they're not getting enough recompense for their labors.

I decided to take the love I'd have for a child and give it to myself instead.

Without answers, at my most desperate, I came to feel (in some unarticulated way) that if I could just tell the right story about what was happening, I could make myself better. If only I could figure out what the story was, like the child in a fantasy novel who must discover her secret name, I could become myself again.

It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.

True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak. It is born of strength and understanding.

A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand!

Archimedes once said that 'Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.' There is a much more difficult task than this: To try to lift an ignorant up from where he stands, because he is heavily chained to the stupidity!

Be like a flower, give hope to the world!

Carry your bag by yourself; carry your umbrella by yourself; open your door by yourself; light your own candle! Do your job by yourself! Don't use others! Don't behave like a king, don't behave like a queen! Be humble!

Courage refuses frontiers!

Do not give little man big power and do not give big man little power!

Educate the children in your country well, and then sit and watch the rise of your country like a Sun on the horizon!

Freedom gives you the air of the high mountains.

Help is not in the sky, help is within you, in your mind; help is your reason! Turn your face to your reason not to the sky!

Here is a good reply of a clever horse to the man who tries to ride and control it: Throwing him into the air!

Leave your fears; you will then have a better life!

Let the people discover you! You might have the key of the locked doors in their lives! Open yourself to the world; you might be the magic the world needs!

Life gives us clay; it is we to make a pot out of it! But sometimes it gives us pot; it is again we to keep it in one piece, as a pot! All jobs are ours! Life only gives things and it has no other responsibility!