Quotes About Empowerment

Mieux vaut allumer une petite lanterne que maudire les ténèbres

Ike was like a giant umbrella. He absorbed what was coming down from above, shielded his commanders from higher authority, and about them to fight the war without excessive second-guessing.

The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology.

Nothing is ever so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

Un livre est un outil de liberté.

What happened to perfectly capable kids who'd been so bombarded with help that they felt helpless to do anything on their own? Or the kids who'd been so driven at home, they'd never had to find their own drive? It couldn't be good, she thought.

This body is yours. No one can ever take it from you, if only you will accept yourself, claim it again--your arms, your spine, your ribs, the small of your back. It's all yours. All this bounty, all this beauty, all this strength and grace is yours. This garden is yours. Take it back. Take it back.

The best way to keep from being a victim is to write your own terms." It

G.U.R.U - Gee, you are you!

If you keep telling the same sad small story, you will keep loving the same sad small life.

If you keep telling the same sad, small story, you will keep living the same sad, small life.

Being guided is not being manipulated. Being exploited is.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself — like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.

It is very annoying, when people notice your weak moments but never see your strong ones.

No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Trust Anne to turn a disadvantage into an asset!

Yo siento que, en lo más hondo de la conciencia colectiva, se está fraguando un tercer movimiento que va cobrando ímpetu. Puede que se convierta en "el movimiento de las mujeres por la paz" esta tercera vez; su meta: detener la violencia mediante la participación de las mujeres en su prevención, en la resolución de conflictos y en la restauración de la paz. La

halves of a spiritual whole; each completed the other. She realized that "feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality

There is a potential heroine in every woman.

but until a feminist consciousness emerges, it is easy to be blind to misogyny and its far-reaching implications

When we have rigid theories about what makes people the way they are and we project our theories onto patients and clients, insisting that our reality is their reality, we do the same thing their parents did. This is the wounding shadow of authority that says, 'I know what your story is and I know its meaning,' and it robs the person of the opportunity to discover this. This is a risk for anyone in a leadership role.

Once caught, the jig is up; whining is conduct unbecoming a crone.