Quotes About Empowerment

Asta n-o vor înÈ›elege ei niciodat?: c? nu eÈ™ti dator s? ajungi ceva, c? nu trebuie s? parvii nic?ieri, c? ceea ce import? în primul rând este s? fii tu È™i s? poÈ›i r?mâne tu însuÈ›i în orice împrejurare a vieÈ›ii.

Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.

Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.

Just be yourself, because on the inside, that's what counts and that is what makes every person beautiful inside and out.

I have seen many beatings Set your heart on books! I watched those seized for labor There's nothing better than books!

Rise against what is before you!

No sleeper whom you have wakened, None downcast whom you have roused, None whose shut mouth you have opened, None ignorant whom you gave knowledge. None foolish whom you have taught.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.

No, Ernie, says Agata, there's no plot, we're only women talking.

None of us have ever asked the men for anything, Agata states. Not a single thing, not even for the salt to be passed, not even for a penny or a moment alone or to take the washing in or to open a curtain or to go easy on the small yearlings or to put your hand on the small of my back as I try, again, for the twelfth or thirteenth time, to push a baby out of my body.

By leaving, we are not necessarily disobeying the men according to the Bible, because we, the women, do not know exactly what is in the Bible, being unable to read it. Furthermore, the only reason why we feel we need to submit to our husbands is because our husbands have told us that the Bible decrees it.

On, narode, sve?e, mu?eni?e! Zašto putuješ u tre?oj klasi? I zašto uop?e putuješ? Zaustavi vlak! Okreni ga da te vozi kamo ti ho?eš. A ne kamo on ho?e. Skreni ga sa kolosijeka - nek' te vozi k sre?i! Što se mu?iš i patiš?

Courage, her mother had once told her, was not simply the fact that you weren't scared of anything.. it was being scared, and doing whatever it was anyway. Courage was dealing with your fears, and not letting them rule you.

Whateva!! Whateva!! I do what I WAUNT!!!

There's something about putting words on a page in private that makes me feel powerful in public.

Good humor pokes fun at the powerful — not the weak.

Thanks, Ms. Liberty! Is that a sari you're wearing? I hope not.

Libraries. How I love them. My source of stories. And solitude.

Nothing makes you feel more beautiful than a sari.

Modest women have rights too, Coach,' I can't help adding.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And you have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it. Create your own. Most people can't do it.