Quotes About Empowerment

You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.

Anyhow, the golden rule in my family is this: If you're supporting yourself financially and you're not bothering anyone else, then you're free to do whatever you want with your life.

when women are gathered together with no men around, they don't have to be anything in particular; they can just be.

I'm too old to hide who I am, Frank. And I'm too old to be made to feel ashamed of myself by anyone—

you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every day. This

of the 1950s. It was on the rooftop of our little bridal boutique that I learned this truth: when women are gathered together with no men around, they don't have to be anything in particular; they can just be.

Every time a diminishing thought arises, I repeat the vow I will not harbor unhealthy thoughts anymore.

Never learn to type, kiddo. And if you do learn to type never te anybody you can type, or they'll make you do it forever. Never learn shorthand, either. It'll be the death of you. They'll put a steno pad n a woan's hand and it'll ever come out.

You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you're gonna wear every day. This is a power you can cultivate.

It also never occurred to me to go ask an authority figure for permission to become a writer. I'd never seen anybody in my family ask anyone for permission to do anything. They just made stuff. So that's what I decided to do: I decided to just go make stuff.

When you insist on your limitations, you are stuck with them.

I want you to figure out a way to stop that from happening.

That s what her mother said 'Stop your weeping and carry on

Oh, Lord—responsibility. That word worked on me until I worked on it, until I looked at it carefully and broke it down into the two words that make its true definition: the ability to respond.

As the saying goes, Argue for your limitations and you get to keep them. Why would I want to keep my limitations?

She was making something of herself, making something with herself.

All of which is to say: You do not need a permission slip from the principal's office to live a creative life. Or if you do worry that you need a permission slip—THERE, I just gave it to you. I

It was during the war, too, that I learned how to be comfortable sitting alone in a bar or restaurant. For many women, this is a strangely difficult thing to do, but eventually I mastered it. (The trick is to bring a book or newspaper, to ask for the best table nearest to the window, and to order your drink just as soon as you sit down.) Once I got the hang of it, I found that eating alone by the window in a quiet restaurant is one of life's greatest secret pleasures.

The thing about fashion, my dears, is that you don't need to follow it, no matter what they say.

Si quieres controlar tu vida, tienes que controlar tu mente. En lugar de intentar controlar todo lo demás, céntrate en eso. Olvídate de todo lo demás. Porque, si no aprendes a dominar tu pensamiento, nunca vas a levantar cabeza».

There is something magnificent about encouraging someone to step forward into his own self-respect at last—especially when it comes to creating something brave and new.

I've watched far too many brilliant and gifted female creators say, "I am 99.8 percent qualified for this task, but until I master that last smidgen of ability, I will hold myself back, just to be on the safe side.

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

I can't be the only ancient woman still tottering around New York City, absolutely refusing to abandon either her life or her real estate.