Quotes About Empowerment

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent than the one derived from fear of punishment.

Love is not something that becomes your weakness, love is something that becomes your strength. Let's not just fall in love, let's rise in love"

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

The key is this: When people are more numerous and living fuller lives, they become more difficult to regiment and control.

New information technologies are tools—and to have an impact, tools need users, who in turn need goals, direction, and motivation.

necesitamos partidos políticos más fuertes, más modernos y más democráticos, que estimulen y faciliten la participación.

Loin d'être aux lois d'un homme en esclave asservie, Mariez-vous, ma soeur, à la philosophie.

That was the truth sometimes. Sometimes, a woman's freedom all came down to money.

She'd shown me her fierceness. I worshipped at the feet of her ferocity.

Salvation is the insurrectionary and revolutionary process of challenging the status quo and demanding equality and inclusion.

Nothing that ever happens in life can take away the fact that I am me. So I have to go on being me.

Here you will never learn anything just because girls do it. But it's a pity not to do things just because girls do them. Work must be done for its own sake.

I'll always be damaged in a way. I had hoped that I could completely heal those cracks, but I'm starting to think the real trick is learning to live a full life in spite of them. Cracked people are everywhere, and so I can forgive myself for being overly anxious or easily frightened. But I will no longer allow myself to be swallowed by my past. I insist on having the happiest life I can muster, and I am in control of that now.

Knowing there is no cavalry is much better than hoping for a cavalry that never comes. I am strong because I have to be. I am the cavalry. (314)

He offered her the world. She said she had her own.

She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing "yes" in the sky.

There was a time when you were not a slave, remember that. You walked alone, full of laughter, you bathed bare-bellied. You say you have lost all recollection of it, remember . . . You say there are no words to describe this time, you say it does not exist. But remember. Make an effort to remember. Or, failing that, invent.

I am with fire between my teeth and still nothing but my blank page.