Quotes About Empowerment

Here we are, women who have been the beneficiaries of education, resources, reproductive choices, travel opportunities, the Internet, and a longer life expectancy than women have ever had in history. What can and will we do?

Jean Shinoda Bolen

Para las mujeres Atenea (como señalaba el exsecretario de estado Henry Kisinger) "el poder es el mejor afrodisíaco".

Because what were older women meant to do with themselves, besides prop up everybody else's lives and drink too much wine at book club meetings? No one, Laura was convinced, was as invisible and as easily dismissed as the tribe of women like herself, with short gray hair and glasses.

to create true equality of opportunity,

I met a woman— Much that I am I owe to her, For she was going where I was going

you could well be right. But surely the answer is for women to become more assertive and not let themselves be subjected?

When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.

To love someone is to reveal to them their capacities for life, the light that is shining in them.

The weak and the poor are for us a source of unity. Jesus came into the world to change and transform society from a "pyramid" in which the strong and clever dominate at the top, into a "body", where each member of society has a place, is respected and is important.

In a relationship of communion, you are you and I am I; I have my identity and you have yours. I must be myself and you must be yourself. We are called to grow together, each one becoming more fully himself or herself. Communion, in fact, gives the freedom to grow. It is not possessiveness. It entails a deep listening to others, helping them to become more fully themselves.

But every child, every person, needs to know that they are a source of joy; every child, every person, needs to be celebrated. Only when all of our weaknesses are accepted as part of our humanity can our negative, broken self images be transformed.

when we women get our rights, you men will have to look alive in order to keep yours.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

La liberté, pensait-elle, c'est le choix de ce qui va vous asservir.

N'ayons pas peur des mots. Ils n'ont pas peur de nous.

Art saved me it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.

Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child.

So Lydia grew up with a mother who emphasized the importance of being independent and saving for the future.

Amor en los tiempos del cólera, first in Spanish, then again in English. No one can take this from her. This book is hers alone.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.