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Quotes About Empowerment

Don't date a woman who gives you a pager number instead of a home number (she's looking for control).
~ Vantile Whitfield
There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls.
~ Miriam Makeba
Someday America will have its very own commercial-free TV and radio station devoted to only one thing: to teach people, in their homes, all the essentials of personal achievement.
~ Napoleon Hill
I thought about all the things I was suddenly able to do—like fight with a sword and summon a magical shell of armor. Those were not things I covered in home school.
~ Rick Riordan
It's the end of the day where wives stay home and raise the kids and all that. That demeaning stuff? No more. Country club memberships, that's what you shoot for! To hell with that.
~ Rush Limbaugh
I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace.
~ Malala Yousafzai
It is very creditable when a woman gets into politics. She does this at the expense of responsibilities toward her home and family and should be lauded for this.
~ Preneet Kaur
I feel most at home when I'm alone. That's not sad. It's just I feel closest to source and connection when I'm by myself.
~ Tituss Burgess
Honesty makes me feel powerful in a difficult world.
~ Cher
You better not compromise yourself, it's all you've got.
~ Janis Joplin
Don't condemn me to the prison of your bullshit.
~ Steve Maraboli
They will call you crazy once you stop living someone else's dream and start living your own.
~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz
A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home.
~ Ida B. Wells
Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
~ Robert Kennedy
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed.
~ Étienne de La Boétie
If God is going to use us for His honor and glory, if His power is going to rest upon us, if He is going to bless our soul-winning ministry, then our lives must be places absolutely at His disposal.
~ Oswald J. Smith
It's great to know that young black girls are seeing themselves on TV as leading ladies, and I'm part of that. It's just such an honor.
~ Candice Patton
As we renew and honor our covenants, our burdens can be lightened and we can continually become purified and strengthened.
~ Linda S. Reeves
I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.
~ Eve Ensler
The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present in your own presence. Give yourself the gift of your own Self.
~ Nirmalananda
An opportunity to honor the legacy of the lives drawn into the lines in my face, the broad of my nose, the dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.
~ Aisha Hinds
Honor your daughters. They are honorable.
~ Malala Yousafzai
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
~ Alexander Hamilton