Quotes About Empowerment

History will have its say one day. Not the history they teach in Brussels, Paris, Washington or the United Nations but the history taught in the country set free from colonialism and its puppet rulers. Africa will write her own history and it will be a history of glory and dignity.

It's only fabric! Freestyle fabric cutting and sewing is a low-risk endeavor with a strong payoff of personal growth and empower- ment.

If it would benefit you, I would kill every wolf here. But there are things that you need to do -- and interfering with that is not protecting, not in my book. The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

Tim was dead. And he's always been a loser. I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.

The best way for me to protect you is to encourage you to be able to protect yourself.

She'd never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door

If I let them all treat me like I was broken, then how was I going to convince myself I wasn't?

Mercy: Then why didn't Marsilia just come herself? Andre: Marsilia is a lady. Women do not belong in combat. Mercy: So you brought me instead?

That which does not destroy us makes us stronger...

Have you ever sat around while someone held their breath? For a while, it doesn't bother you, but eventually you start holding your breath with them, willing them to breathe. it's one of those automatic reflexes. (Mercy)

Silvia was tough, smart, and could survive on herown - she didn't need a handsome prince to ride up and rescue her. But that didn't mean such a man might not want to protect her from everything he could, anyway.

It is proper that men listen to the counsel of women. (Coyote)

The problem was that she didn't need rescuing, except maybe from them. The force of their concern, of their knowing that she had been a victim made her feel like a victim again.

The thought of herself as decoration was absurd.

I'd be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser - or anyone else.

If Buffalo Singer ever came to her in a dream again, she would make sure he regretted it.

Only cowards torture women.

In short, if we wish to see anything sensible done about the situation, we will clearly have to do it ourselves.

Don't ever delude yourself into thinking that you should have the ability to stay serene no matter how you are treated. Your serenity comes from the knowledge that you have a fundamental right to a nurturing environment and a fundamental right to affirm your boundaries.

If the words or attitude disempower, disrespect, or devalue the other, then they are abusive.

In general, when you respond to verbal abuse, speak firmly and clearly, stand or sit straight and tall, hold your head high, look the abuser in the eye, and breathe deeply, letting your abdomen expand with the intake of air.

If the spell can't be broken, if you are with a Spellbound person who will not change, your spiritual, if not your physical survival may depend upon your escaping.

Now it is clear that breaking the spell not only preserves our freedom, but freedom itself. Becoming a Spellbreaker is a matter of conscience.

and by acting in her own best interests she relieves her feelings of inadequacy and regains her natural State of Personal Power.