Quotes About Empowerment

Never love something so much it can be used to control you.

There's so much proscription in the lives of young people, and it's so vital to have a place that says, look, here are the doors onto the world and amazingly, you're free to choose any one you like. - Patrick Ness on Libraries

Know yourself, he thinks, as they sail past his house. And go in swinging.

It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.

You did this to me," I say, still trembling. "You put it in my head and made me–" "I did no such thing," he says. "I merely showed you the path. You walked down it all by yourself.

The Mayor's wrong- He's wrong forever and ever- It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled.

It was almost over. He was almost there. He had never, not once in his life, felt this powerful.

But there are harder things than being invisible, it said

Enfádate lo que tengas que enfadarte –dijo ella-. Que nadie te lo impida. Ni tu abuela, ni tu padre, nadie. Y si tienes que romper cosas, por Dios, hazlas añicos.

A woman my age, living alone," she said, at least once a day, "if I don't keep on top of things, who will?

You needed to know it, but for the rest of this, I'm choosing my own story. Because if you can't do that, you might as well just give up.

Usually when a man calls a woman a bitch," a voice calls over from a cart pulling up near us at the edge of camp, "it's because she's doing something right.

There's peace to be found in doing something for yourself.

It's not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness– It's your best strength

She ain't my girl, she's her own girl, she don't belong to anyone.

I'm choosing my own story. Because if you can't do that, you might as well give up.

And now it's time to hand the baton to you. Stories don't end with writer, however many started the race. So go. Run with it. Make trouble.

You be as angry as you need to be," she said. "Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.

None of us, not any one of us, wants to be defined by the worst day or the worst hour or the worst moment of our lives.

Why did you not fight back?

It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one.

There are so many men, all endlessly attempting to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you, trying just the opposite. Making sure my feet are firm beneath me, lest I fall.

This story is for all the slightly broken people out there. I am one of you. You are not alone. You are all beautiful to me.

Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made.