Quotes About Empowerment

Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart. The rest of it will take care of itself.

the great lack of parity between husbands and wives has always been spawned by the disproportionate degree of self-sacrifice that women are willing to make on behalf of those they love.

The women I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong and they handled it. They handled it a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes.

Anyway, at some point in a woman's life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is.

Well, child, you may do whatever you like with your suffering," Hanneke said mildly. "It belongs to you. But I shall tell you what I do with mine. I grasp it by the small hairs, I cast it to the ground, and I grind it under the heel of my boot. I suggest you learn to do the same.

But never delude yourself into believing that you require someone else's blessing (or even their comprehension) in order to make your own creative work.

A parent is inexcusable who does not personally teach her child to think.

I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.

Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart.

I think it's a mighty act of human love to remind somebody that they can accomplish things by themselves, and that the world does not automatically owe them any reward, and that they are not as weak and hobbled as they may believe.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Go be whomever you want to be, then. Do whatever you want to do. Pursue whatever fascinates you and brings you to life.

I'm choosing happiness over suffering.

At some point in a woman's life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is.

And what if people absolutely hate what you've created? What if people attack you with savage vitriol, and insult your intelligence, and malign your motives, and drag your good name through the mud? Just smile sweetly and suggest—as politely as you possibly can—that they go make their own fucking art.

you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong, instead. a

Never explain yourself, Alma. It makes you appear weak.

She was of the mind that people should make their own decisions about their own lives, if you can image such a preposterous thing.

I can only be in charge of producing the work itself. That's a hard enough job. I refuse to take on additional jobs, such as trying to police what anybody thinks about my work once it leaves my desk.

You do not need anybody's permission to live a creative life.

The sooner and more passionately you get married to this idea- that it is ultimately entirely up to you- the better off you'll be.

At no moment in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.

You are free, because everyone is too busy fussing over themselves to worry all that much about you. Go be whomever you want to be, then. Do whatever you want to do. Pursue whatever fascinates you and brings you to life. Create whatever you want to create—and let it be stupendously imperfect, because it's exceedingly likely that nobody will even notice. And that's awesome.

She stopped feeling like she was nothing more than a consumer, nothing more than the sum of her daily obligations and duties. She was making something