Quotes About Empowerment

The phrase "working mother" is redundant.

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.

I began to listen to myself more... Trusting myself, I discovered, meant giving up control over my decisions. The choice came from me, but not from the part of me that used to decide—the mind that weighed, the mind that projected scenarios, the mind that controlled.

I don't want to spend my time rescuing you from awkward situations.

Giving birth should be your greatest achievement not your greatest fear.

no-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when you've survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity.

I reckon that blaming people fixes nothing. You're the only person who is going to sort you out. No-one else really can - or really cares, enough. That's what Nepalis know - better than anyone. That's our Western disease. Don't take responsibility. Take on a lawyer!

Touch magic. Pass it on.

I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.

When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup.

Change will happen slowly, however, unless women refuse to submit to conventional practices and begin to trust their own bodies.

Someone can always take your money or belongings from you, but no one can ever steal your education.

Half a lifetime ago, I was forced at knifepoint to a grabage dump and gang-raped.

She was not able to return to the beginning, of course, and remake her life more to her liking, but now she was free to go on with the life she did have.

freeing one satin breast

I did not know my own identity. I was burgled of body and hung in the sky like a woman of straw.

If you can put fear aside, you're unstoppable.

Slut: a person who celebrates sexuality and erotic love with an open mind and an open heart.

Understanding the fundamentals of accounting is a form of self-defense.

Grab reality by the balls and squeeze.

No feminist whose concern for women stems from concern for justice in general can ever legitimately allow her only interest to be the advantage of women.

When you read you can have every adventure. In the pages of a book you can be anyone you ever dreamed of being... They can never tell you you're too young to slay the dragon -- because it all happens right here, where it's safe.

Happy is entirely up to you and always has been.

Life gave you problems. It was your responsibility to rise above them.