Quotes About Empowerment

You do not need to wait for the world to become sane, or for somebody else to become conscious, before you can be enlightened

With the seeing comes the power of choice...

The fact is: Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world. You are withholding it because deep down you think you are small and that you have nothing to give.

I've just come to the conclusion that all women should wear whatever they want to wear and that all men should wear whatever they want to wear. If they have a problem with that, they should take it up with United Nations.

I'll just borrow confidence from a future version of myself.

Give them what you wish of it, what you think will not harm them, but do not feel aggrieved if they laugh at you.

Love with her would be a field of action, not a need. She was complete whether she won or lost the world. She was her own fortress and her own sanctuary.

It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?

Two ways to be a light for all, is to be a flaming candle or the mirror that reflects it

Women ought to be free—as free as we are

Algumas mulheres são fortes o bastante para acreditarem nelas mesmas, mas eu precisei da sua ajuda para acreditar em mim. Talvez eu tenha resistido a uma grande tentação, mas foram as pequenas que acabaram me derrubando.

Women ought to be free—as free as we are, he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

There are 2 ways of spreading light: to be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.

she did not suffer from her geographic isolation.

Las mujeres deberían ser libres..., tan libres como nosotros —declaró, descubriendo algo cuyas terribles consecuencias estaba demasiado irritado para medir.

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to acomplish, both in the natural and moral world.

It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will . . . than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of a political benevolence.

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor.

lie together in one short sentence: namely, that we have acquired a right 1. To choose our own governors. 2. To cashier them for misconduct. 3. To frame a government for ourselves. This new, and hitherto unheard-of bill of rights

Taking responsibility means you don't blame anyone else for your difficulties. It also means that you don't blame yourself.

Any black or red man who could win admission to "the fellowship of the doers" was superior to the white man who failed. Roosevelt's long-term dream was nothing more or less than the general, steady, self-betterment of the multicolored American nation.

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.