Quotes About Empowerment

choice increases the likelihood of compliance. It's not the choice itself that's important, it's the feeling that the person has a choice that makes a difference in behavior.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

The cure for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

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Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist.

Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

To read is to empower, To empower is to write, To write is to influence, To influence is to change, To change is to live".

Men are trained to discount women in any number of ways, Lydia.

Most women run from danger like mice from a cat. You turn into a lion and take whatever comes. [Aurelia as seen by her brother.]

A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring.

We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2 000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750 000 girls per year.

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.

In this country, the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken

The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.

You don't have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.

My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.

When I'm single, I'm this fabulous, independent, confident woman, and then I get involved with one disastrous man after another and I turn into this needy, insecure, fearful girl who becomes frightened of her own shadow.