Quotes About Empowerment

One only has to read interviews with outstanding women to hear them apologizing

The women address the young men in these terms, now you understand that we have been fighting as much for you as for ourselves.

There is no possible fight for someone deprived of an identity, no internal motivation for fighting, since, although I can fight only with others, first I fight for myself.

What does "feminist" mean? Feminist is formed with the word "femme," "woman," and means: someone who fights for women. For many of us it means someone who fights for women as a class and for the disappearance of this class. For many others it means someone who fight for woman and her defense – for the myth, then, and its reenforcement.

The women say that it may be that the feminaries have fulfilled their function. They say they have no means of knowing. They say that thoroughly indoctrinated as they are with ancient texts no longer to hand, these seem to them outdated. All they can do to avoid being encumbered with useless knowledge is to heap them up in the squares and set fire to them. That would be an excuse for celebrations.

Elas dizem que aprenderam a contar com a própria força. Dizem que sabem o que significa estarem juntas. Dizem que aquelas que reivindicam uma nova língua primeiro se deparam com a violência. Dizem que aquelas que querem transformar o mundo primeiro se apoderam de fuzis. Dizem que começam do zero. Dizem que um novo mundo está surgindo.

The information is now in your hands for you to enjoy in the way that suits you best. Learn it all, or learn a little -- the choice is yours. Have fun.

If you are not a feminist, you do not deserve to live. Do you think you grew out of the ground?

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.

Resist the temptation to think of yourself as useless. It will only lead to depression.

Literacy, the most empowering achievement of our civili- zation, is to be replaced by a vague and ill-defined screen savvy. The paper book, the tool that built modernity, is to be phased out in favor of fractured, unfixed information. All in the name of progress.

everybody deserves to have something good in their life at least once.

In future, every time I was tempted to sit back and ask God to solve my problems, I'd be able to roll up my sleeve and be reminded of what I'd learned at the zoo. That God gave us heaven and earth and loving hearts, and the rest is up to us.

I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.

You know what I want you to do? I want you to blow out the candle and curse the darkness.

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across.

What you dont want to do can be a tool for what you want to be.

Don't wait for others to celebrate you. Sometimes you need to arrange a party and celebrate yourself.

On the brighter side of life, Kiddawalime opened doors for Nakyambadde

The success we knew was only by achieving. But girls, today you celebrate success by being achieved..