Quotes About Empowerment

Ahora saben que son ellos los que no deben salir de casa solos de noche. Son ellos los que deben tener miedo —grita una mujer a la cámara

She could run. There's her dad's voice in her head, saying, Take care of yourself, sweetie. And there's her mon's voice in her head, saying, You're a hero, act like it.

It doesn't matter that she shouldn't, that she never would. What matters is that she could, if she wanted.

It's not what I've done, Allie thinks to herself, it's what I'm going to do. And the voice says: It's what Eve's going to do.

The younger women can wake it up in the older ones; but from now on all women will have it.

People make what they need for themselves.

Vi è stato insegnato che siete immonde, che non siete sante, che il vostro corpo è impuro e non potrebbe mai essere la sede del divino. Vi hanno insegnato a disprezzare tutto ciò che siete e ad aspirare solo a essere un uomo. Ma vi hanno insegnato menzogne. Dio

All girls born from now on will have the power—all of them. And they'll keep it throughout life, just like the older women do if it's woken up in them. It's too late now to try to cure it; we need new ideas.

Jews: look to Miriam, not Moses ... Muslims: look to Fatimah, not Muhammad. Buddhists: remember Tara, the mother of liberation. Christians: pray to Mary for your salvation.

We are modern. We live modern lives. All we demand is that women keep to their allotted areas; a woman is private, while a man is public. The correct mode for a man is speech, while the correct mode for a woman is silence. I've spent a long time proving that this isn't so. I've spent a long time insisting that no one else can tell me when to speak and when to remain silent. So much so that it's hard for me to tell when I want to be quiet.

Remember, if you're going to stay here, you're going to need to own the place so they can't take it from you. The only way you're safe, honeybun, is if you own it.

So I went walking, like the independent woman I am.

Behind almost every woman you ever heard of stands a man who let her down.

They're trying to tell us that we're not right, so we have to buy their products. The number one cause of mental illness is not knowing who you are and you can't know who you are if you don't spend time honoring yourself, and living in the present.

Your body hears everything your mind says.

Bruce Lipton (The Biology of Belief)

Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

It could be verified that no princess was ever asked whether she wanted to be rescued and carried off by a dragon-slayer to a fate (no doubt) worse than death.

Naomi Mitchison,

Tomoe Gozen was among the rarest of historical figures, a woman samurai,

He would only shrug and look at me expectantly again, waiting for high magic: magic that came only when you made some larger version of yourself with words and promises, and then stepped inside and somehow grew to fill it.

In the secular world, it was impossible to find a man who had not been infected by the worst accomplishments of feminism: the idea that women should be treated as men not only in their paychecks but also in their physical strength. Yes, she could open her own door, carry her own packages, lift heavy objects. But what woman wanted to be treated like that, unless you were a brainwashed Soviet comrade?

Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.

You can't break my heart. It's made of water.