Quotes About Empowerment

meaningful, too, that the recently established Freedmen's Bureau paired impoverished whites and freed people not as cutthroat adversaries, but as the worthy poor. From its inception in 1865, shortly before Lincoln's assassination, the bureau was specifically empowered to extend relief to "all refugees, and all freedmen," black and white.

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

can acknowledge and recognize your feelings—to yourself and to others—but you have a choice of when, where, and whether to express your feelings or to act on them.

What we believe about ourselves determines how we live. If we believe and act on lies, we will end up in bondage

It's only through facing the truth that you will be able to fulfill your potential and live the life you were meant to live. It's only by jumping that you will be able to fly.

High" net worth is a feeling of wholeness. In other words, I don't just want you to have more money, I want you to be free to create the life that makes you happy—whatever that means to you.

If you don't like what you see, stop looking.

Tea no more! Down with bustles!

Instincts are given to us by God to guide us. It takes a strong woman to listen to those instincts and ignore what the world says to do.

Allowing others to decide for us does not guarantee a better decision but almost always guarantees a fuller regret, and regret is a poison I wish on no one.

Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.

The truth is, it's impossible for any parent to know what his or her child will be like as an adult. But we can tell you that the sensory smart child of sensory smart parents is a person who is empowered to take responsibility for himself, for his body, and for his behavior. That's an outstanding quality any parent would be proud to see in a child.

There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise.

A woman is like a teabag. It's only when she's in hot water that you realize how strong she is.

I had been conditioned to down play my own abuse,

There's nothing you can do about your mother, but it's high time you took care of yourself. Do whatever is necessary for you to be okay. Don't let your mother pull you down any longer.

To forgive without expressing anger or disappointment is to forgive from a position of weakness. •?Forgiving from weakness only invites more hurt. It never quite catches up with the pain.

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. —Frank Tyger

I hope instead she rages!

Even late marriage and childbirth didn't seem to deter this new young population of women from continuing to hold down paid jobs.

Modern woman have discovered that living through another's reflection is simply not human enough.

A young woman's ability to read beyond the bible had little practical value.

Women did not yet have the vote, but suffrage was clearly in the wind

To some "housewife" has become a dirty word.