Quotes About Empowerment

To pursue the thing she needed to do, Virginia Woolf wrote, "a woman must have money and a room of her own. ...." I needed money and a backpack.

She is free not by disobeying the rules but by obeying them.

The woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts, her special calling which bears her up into perfect freedom, into the will of God.

so the woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts...

If she had been born a hundred years later, she would very likely have been encouraged to be angry, told she had a right to express her anger and her sorrow and her bewilderment and her rage, and generally to disintegrate. These were not the expectations of her friends and family. Nothing could have been further from her expectations of herself. Instead, she threw herself into serving others.

The same God who urges us to obey also furnishes the desire as well as the strength to do so. Our part is to exercise our wills.

The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

I want to be free of self-pity. It is a tool of Satan to rot away a life.

No se puede sanar al mundo sin sanarse primero a sí mismo.

El conocimiento va muy bien -le dije- pero el conocimiento solo no va a sanar a nadie. Si no se usa.

Dios mío, dame la serenidad para aceptar las cosas que no puedo cambiar, el valor para cambiar las que puedo cambiar, y la sabiduría para discernir entre ambas.

Dios mío, dame la serenidad para aceptar las cosas que no puedo cambiar, el valor para cambiar las que puedo cambiar, y la sabiduría para discernir entre

Al águila le entusiasma sobrevolar el mundo desde las alturas, no a fin de contemplar con desprecio a la gente, sino para animarla a que mire hacia lo alto.

The minute you supply a person with the answers, by that very action you block them, once and for all, from the opportunity of inventing those same answers for themselves. If you want to go on an ego trip, to show how smart you are, give the answers. But if what you want is action to be taken, then you must refrain from giving the answers.

Mrs. Arbuthnot said she did see, but nevertheless she thought it rather silly to have everything taken out of their hands. I love things to be taken out of my hands, said Mrs. Wilkins.

Human beings. They are the ones with the most important job. They are supposed to make what they want out of what they are given.

wear a hat and some old lady shoes, and you can do whatever you want.

For all that we might be, if only we'd let ourselves.

Always pick the thing that is not a chain, is one way to try to save the world.

We're all trapped in a body with limitations, even the most able-bodied among us! And we're all guided by minds with limitations of their own. You want to know my philosophy? It's this: Our job, regardless of our bodily circumstances is to rise above what holds us down, and to help others do the same.

I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay.

There's always hope when a kid—or an adult, for that matter—likes to read.

some of us create our own prisons for ourselves, we fall into ways of being that we feel we can't change.

women of a certain age who still want to fight the good fight, as Gretchen sees it. She has