Quotes About Empowerment

I'm worth more," she told him, wiping the back of her hand across her mouth. "Affection, respect, tenderness, I'm worth all of that, so don't you dare come near me again until you're ready to offer it.

Vas a volar, Sienna. Más alto y más fuerte que aquellos que te enjaularon podrán nunca imaginar.

Fuck fear. I won't allow it to steal my life from me—and you shouldn't either.

Fly free, my daughter. Be what I could never be and leave the cage forever.

That didn't mean she didn't still fear loneliness. She always would, the scar too old and too deeply set into her psyche—but she was no longer held hostage to her need.

Dropping the saccharine-sweet tone, she glared. "I don't sleep with men who think I'm a brainless twit.

Never allow the words of others to steal your worth—always remember that it is the weak and cowardly who attempt to devalue others. The strong uplift without fear, share their knowledge to help others grow.

Don't hide. Don't pretend. Confront what hurts you, know the shape and form of it so you can conquer it.

Men who call strong women shrews," she said in a tone formed of sugar syrup and molasses, "are often men scared of a woman's strength.

Yet instead of drowning in the darkness that had threatened to suck her under, Brenna had said "fuck you" to the monster who'd hurt her, and she'd chosen to live. She'd not only wrenched back control of her own life, she'd taken on an Arrow and claimed him as her mate.

Strength doesn't mean never relying on anyone.

I'm alive. I fucking made it. No one has the right to take that from me.

We don't choose our parents. And their mistakes aren't our own. You are what you make yourself—don't ever forget that.

The idea of ever again being caught unarmed and vulnerable was her worst nightmare.

Pathetic, Charlotte. You are a pathetic excuse for a woman.

You can't simply blame another." It was lazy and absolved one party of responsibility in a circumstance that both'd had a chance to influence. "I say that as a woman who so long blamed Aegaeon for what I became. But I" — she slapped a hand over her chest — "made choices along the way.

Fear is an intruder in your life, child. You must cast him out." -Bebe to Kaia

He finally got it: he was in charge of whether or not he lived a life that made him happy.

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I remembered to keep my body inclined low, to shrink myself smaller than he. He was sensitive about my greater height.

Chief Gray of the Osage Nation said, "Today, our neighbors are beginning to understand that when tribes are strong, everyone benefits. A rising tide lifts all boats. This has been done, not on the white man's terms, but on our own. It's not revenge, it's rebirth, and as our elders say, it is good." This

The story of Sita lifting the Shiva dhanushya, which it takes 5000 servants to fetch for Rama to break (Bala Kanda, sarg 66), signifies the onset of puberty. Yet, if we are to take this literally, we have to ask what happened to this strong woman after marriage that she let herself be abducted by Ravana without a fight.

a woman who seems to be a passive character in major portions of the Ramayana, following her husband through thick and thin, insistent in her demand for the suvarnamrig, finally emerges as a strong woman with a will of her own. However, that is not what she is worshipped for.

She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. —Proverbs 31:25