Quotes About Empowerment

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What makes a woman into a doormat? What makes her see some quite ordinary other person as a looming Goliath? And are not these relationships such an outrage to reality that they cannot last a lifetime?

El conocimiento es una riqueza que se puede transmitir sin empobrecerse". Sólo el saber-poniendo en cuestión los paradigmas dominantes del beneficio-puede ser compartido sin empobrecer. Al contrario, enriqueciendo a quien lo transmite y a quien lo recibe.

Whatever you believe in is what you become. A thing can only be possible if you make it possible.

We can only be what we give ourselves the power to be.

I am what I am because I have made myself so.

You can be only what you give yourself the power to be.

Leven Thumps, you are incredibly more than you believe yourself to be." - Colver

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you.

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

Freedom is dangerous but it's precious, too. You can't just throw it away or let it slip away. You can't sell it for bread and pottage.

It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching.

Let them see that you trust them & let them solve their own problems, make their own decisions.Do that & they will commit their lives to you. Bully the, control them out of fear or malice or just for your own convenience, & after a while you'll have to spend all your time thinking for them, controlling them, & stifling their resentment.

The Self must create           Its own reasons for being.           To shape God,           Shape Self.

She means it doesn't come off, Dana... The black. She means the devil with people who say you're anything but what you are.

It's better to teach people than to scare them, Lauren. If you scare them and nothing happens, they lose their fear, and you lose some of your authority with them. It's harder to scare them a second time, harder to teach them, harder to win back their trust. Best to begin by teaching.

What are you?" I whispered."What are we to you?" She lay still, rested her head on her topmost coil. "You know me as no other does," she said softly. "You must decide.

I'm Valerie Rye,' she said, savoring the words. 'It's all right for you to talk to me.

There was no shame in raping a black woman, but there could be shame in loving one.

Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.

I began writing about power because I had so little.

Sometimes writing about a thing makes it easier to stand.

Partnership is giving, taking, learning, teaching, offering the greatest possible benefit while doing the least possible harm.