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Quotes About Empowerment

If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I took a deep breath, 'I took the nahlrout because I didn't want to faint. I needed to let them know they couldn't hurt me. I've learned that the best way to stay safe is to make your enemies think you can't be hurt.' It sounded ugly to say it so starkly, but it was the truth. I looked at him defiantly.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
A woman who goes around wearing a knife is obviously looking for trouble." She reached deep into her pocket and brought out a long, slender piece of metal, glittering all along one edge. "However a woman who carries a knife is ready for trouble. Generally speaking, it's easier to appear harmless. It's less trouble all around.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. Some might take offense at this way of seeing things, not understanding how a trouper views his music. They might think I degrade women. They might consider me callous, or boorish, or crude. But those people do not understand love, or music, or me.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
She was not vain enough to work her will against the world. But she could use the things the world had given her.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Todos mis pupilos deben ser capaces de defender sus ideas. Hagas lo que hagas en la vida, tu ingenio te defenderá más a menudo que una espada. ¡Cultívalo!
~ Patrick Rothfuss
You couldn't fight the tide or change the wind. And if there was a storm? Well, a girl should batten down and bail, not run the rigging. How could she help but make a mess of things, the state that she was in? She'd strayed from the true way of things. First you set yourself to rights. And then your house. And then your corner of the sky. And after that . . .
~ Patrick Rothfuss
But there's a better way. You show her she is beautiful. You make mirrors of your eyes, prayers of your hands against her body. It is hard, very hard, but when she truly believes you…" Bast gestured excitedly. "Suddenly the story she tells herself in her own head changes. She transforms. She isn't seen as beautiful. She is beautiful, seen.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
This isn't the hand of some swooning princess who sits tatting lace and waiting for some prince to save her. This is the hand of a woman who would climb a rope of her own hair to freedom, or kill a captor ogre in his sleep. And this is the hand of a woman who would have made it through the fire on her own if I hadn't been there. Singed perhaps, but safe.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
My mind was learning to work in different ways, becoming stronger. It felt the same way your body feels after a day of splitting wood, or swimming, or sex. You feel exhausted, languorous, and almost godlike. I could feel my mind starting to awaken.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
A woman who goes around wearing a knife is obviously looking for trouble. However, a woman who carries a knife is ready for trouble.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
We all good word do. We make you do word good too!
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Each woman is like an instrument, waiting to be learned, loved, and finely played, to have at last her own true music made. Some
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Hay dos cosas que debéis recordar. La primera es que nuestros nombres nos dan forma, y que nosotros damos forma a nuestros nombres.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
un hombre sin el beneficio de la educación es poco más que un animal
~ Patrick Rothfuss
when the lights are out all women are the same height!
~ Patrick Rothfuss
This isn't the hand of some swooning princess who sits tatting lace and waiting for some prince to save her. This is the hand of a woman who would climb a rope of her own hair to freedom, or kill a captor ogre in his sleep." I looked into her eyes. "And this is the hand of a woman who would have made it through the fire on her own if I hadn't been there. Singed perhaps, but safe.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Para qué voy a llevar un puñal? —replicó ella—. Soy una dulce y delicada flor, ¿no? Una mujer que se pasea exhibiendo un puñal solo busca problemas. —Metió una mano en un bolsillo y sacó un largo y delgado trozo de metal con uno de los bordes reluciente—. Sin embargo, una mujer que esconde un puñal está preparada por si surgen problemas. En general, es más cómodo aparentar que eres inofensiva. Menos problemático.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Inherent power you possess as part of yourself. Granted power is lent or given by other people.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Om man säger till henne att hon är vacker tycker hon att man är snäll, men hon tror en inte. Hon vet att skönhet finns i betraktarens ögon...Men det finns ett bättre sätt. Man visar henne att hon är vacker... plötsligt förändras den historia hon berättar för sig själv, inne i huvudet. Hon förvandlas. Hon är inte sedd som vacker. Hon är vacker och sedd". (s. 384)
~ Patrick Rothfuss
This isn't the hand of some swooning princess who sits tatting lace and waiting for some prince to
~ Patrick Rothfuss
What does our story need? What vital element is it lacking?" "Women, Reshi," Bast said immediately. "There's a real paucity of women.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
No tienes las manos de un princesa frágil que pasa las horas haciendo encaje y que espera que llegue algún príncipe a salvarla. Son las manos de una mujer capaz de trepar por una cuerda hecha con su propio cabello para alcanzar la libertad, o de matar al ogro que la ha capturado mientras duerme.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.
~ Patrick Roy