Quotes About Empowerment

Because she doesn't apologize for anything. She had a rotten start in life, but she's made the best of it. She lives on her own terms. She knows who she is and what she wants, and she does what she is good at. And she has a good time doing it.

Be brave. You have everything you need," I murmured to no one in particular. "Everything indeed." Excelsior!

I should never want a man to give up anything for me. I should want him to feel in winning me he has won the whole world.

ALIS VOLAT PROPRIIS. "'She flies with her own wings,'" I translated.

our motto is Audeo. I dare. Dare to take the life you want in your own two hands and do not let it go, do you hear me?

I have seen enough of the world to know that women can scratch and claw and fight just as fiercely as men for what they want. Perhaps more.

but I have clawed back some shreds of decency and dignity and I will not have them taken from me again.

I have traveled alone. I am unmarried, I live without a chaperone, and I work for a living. These are not the actions of a lady,

I've had my ass grabbed more times than I care to count, and there was exactly one Black field agent in the first twelve years I worked for them.

By the time she split from the third one, she'd given up entirely on marriage and decided to keep a string of what the kids call fuckbuddies.

St. Frideswide's seat before her intended, she will be master in her own house." "And if a woman does not wish to marry?" I asked archly. He grinned. "Then I believe she does not need St. Frideswide's help in the first place.

That's the trouble with women," she said. "We know what we oughtn't do, and yet we do it anyway. Nature has given us instincts, but when a man comes along, we hear only his voice, and not our own

A good teacher can change the course of a life.

An investigator has to have a defense arsenal. Heck, every woman alive should have one if she wants to stay that way.

You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.

A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.

The most true-love words are not the ones that grasp and hold and bind you, twisting you both up together in some black dance. No, they are ones that leave you free to stand alone on your own solid ground, leave him to do the same, a tender space between you.

I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn't working for me when it wasn't working. The world doesn't come crashing down when you speak the truth.

No one is ever quite as strong or as weak as you'd think.

Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter.

Sometimes that's all you need. To know it's not broken. To know you're still whole and that you'll heal.

You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.

He] made me feel…large, maybe. In a way I hadn't before. But he didn't know that. For all he knew, I was always that large. It felt good. Fun. Unexpectedly large is sudden, magic levitation—you're high, an impervious Balloon of Joy.

When you go looking for rescue, you end up trapped in your own weakness.