Quotes About Empowerment

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be. — James Baldwin

Be proud. Be proud you are a soldier. Be proud you are a woman.

Then Otulissa swelled up to twice her normal size. "Well, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!

I have redeemed myself by giving belief to the wings of the young. Blessed are those who believe, for indeed they shall fly.

Women need to become literary 'criminals,' break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality of their lives.

LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways. LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS have made a small world deep within and separated from the world. What has usually been called the world is the male world.

Glory be to those humans that are absolutely NOTHING for the opinions of other humans: they are the true owners of illusions, transformations, and themselves." NYC in 1979

Glory be to those humans that are absolutely NOTHING for the opinions of other humans: they are the true owners of illusions, transformations, and themselves.

glory be to those humans who are absolutely NOTHING for the opinions of other humans: they are the true owners of illusions, transformations and themselves

Give that bully that is history a bleeding lip.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." —Marie Curie (1867–1934)

Be self-confident. Don't let others take the bread

women enrich life.

Simone de Beauvoir: The day when it will become possible for the woman to love in her strength and not in her weakness, not to escape from herself but to find herself, not out of resignation but to affirm herself, love will become for her as for man the source of life and not a mortal danger.

But the break is still there, not visible but there, the break where you find in yourself the ability to walk away from everything you have known; the break is thrilling, liberating, and, as Alexis says, a little like dying. Alexis describes her mother as

I was also working on the question: Why hadn't I extricated myself sooner? Why had I not reacted for so long? Why couldn't I give up the idea sooner of marriage and at least entertained the possibility of being on my own sooner? The version of myself who was worrying about the correct way to press the elevator button was not actually me, so why had I allowed her to exist and walk around and go to playgrounds and sit in libraries and shop for dinner for so long?

In the light of day, it's hard to understand why I am derailed by a tiny thing like getting out of a taxi on a Sunday night. Of course, right behind the fear that I can't manage on my own is another more terrifying fear: that I can.

It is not for me to Judge the gifts I have to offer the world, but it is up to me to summon the courage to offer them.

The years from here on in will be what I make of them.

Violence, especially if you are a woman, is not something spoken about with ease.

the beast was best handled by turning it toward the sun.

before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful.

What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took?

With a strength I can be proud of, I live only for myself, and only die for myself. I'll never die for someone, cause I know the pain of who remains alive, this is my pride.