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Quotes About Empowerment

Just study," Hansu had said. "Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it's the only kind of power no one can take away from you." Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.
~ Min Jin Lee
Clothing was magic. Casey believed this. She would never admit this to her classmates in any of her women's studies courses, but she felt that an article of clothing could change a person... Each skirt, blouse, necklace, or humble shoe said something - certain pieces screamed, and others whispered seductively, but no matter, she experienced each item's expression keenly, and she loved this world. every article suggested an image, a life, a kind of woman, and Casey felt drawn to them.
~ Min Jin Lee
If the pastor doesn't give you money for the household, earn something and put aside savings for emergencies. Spend what you need but just throw even a few coins into a tin and forget that you have it. A woman should always have something put by.
~ Min Jin Lee
Just study," Hansu had said. "Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge – it's the only kind of power no one can take away from you.
~ Min Jin Lee
Baby, when you're scared, walk round like you own the joint,
~ Min Jin Lee
All her life, Sunja had heard this sentiment from other women, that they must suffer—suffer as a girl, suffer as a wife, suffer as a mother—die suffering. Go-saeng—the word made her sick. What else was there besides this?
~ Min Jin Lee
There are a lot of troubled young women in this world. We can't save them all.
~ Min Jin Lee
send some money home each month. "Just study," Hansu had said. "Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it's the only kind of power no one can take away from you." Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference. Learning was like playing, not labor.
~ Min Jin Lee
Men have choices that women don't.
~ Min Jin Lee
Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge - it's the only kind of power no one can take away from you.
~ Min Jin Lee
I'm a businessman. And I wat you to be a businessman. And whenever you go to these meetings, I want you to think for yourself, and I want you to think about promoting your own interests no matter what. All these people both the Japanese and the Koreans - are fucked because they keep thinking about the group. But here's the truth: There's no such thing as a benevolent leader. I protect you because you work for me.
~ Min Jin Lee
All her life, Suja had heard this sentiment from other women, that they must suffer- suffer as a girl, suffer as a wife, suffer as a mother- die suffering, Go-saeng- the word made her sick. What else was there besides this? Should she have taught her son to suffer the humiliation that she'd drunk like water? In the end, he has refused to suffer the conditions of his birth. Did mothers fail by not telling their sons that suffering would come.
~ Min Jin Lee
Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it's the only kind of power no one can take away from you." Hansu never told him to study, but rather to learn, and it occurred to Noa that there was a marked difference.
~ Min Jin Lee
Spend what you need but just throw even a few coins into a tin and forget that you have it. A woman should always have something put by.
~ Min Jin Lee
MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.
~ Mina Loy
It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different.
~ Mindy Kaling
People's reaction to me is sometimes "Uch, I just don't like her. I hate how she thinks she is so great." But it's not that I think I'm so great. I just don't hate myself. I do idiotic things all the time and I say crazy stuff I regret, but I don't let everything traumatize me. And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that's why you need to be a little bit brave.
~ Mindy Kaling
But it's not that I think I'm so great. I just don't hate myself. I do idiotic things all the time and I say crazy stuff I regret, but I don't let everything traumatize me. And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that's why you need to be a little bit brave.
~ Mindy Kaling
And these days, I find I'm caring less and less about what people think of me. Maybe it's my age, maybe it's my security in my career, maybe it's because I'm skrilla flush with that dollah-dollah-bill-y'all, but if I had to identify my overall feeling these days, it's much more "Eh, screw it. Here's how I really feel.
~ Mindy Kaling
And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves.
~ Mindy Kaling
I don't read them; I just hit "accept." iTunes may own my ovaries, for all I know.
~ Mindy Kaling
my secret is: even though I wish I could be thin, and that I could have the ease of lifestyle that I associate with being thin, I don't wish for it with all of my heart. Because my heart is reserved for way more important things. I will leave you with one last piece of advice, which is: If you've got it, flaunt it. And if you don't got it? Flaunt it. 'Cause what are we even doing here if we're not flaunting it?
~ Mindy Kaling
A not 100-percent-perfect-looking-in-every-way female? You might as well film a dead squid decaying on a beach somewhere for two hours.
~ Mindy Kaling
And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that is why you need to be a little bit brave.
~ Mindy Kaling