Quotes About Empowerment

Nothing leveled a man quite like being unable to protect his woman.

I wish I could make a better job of my clothes. My mother taught me about weather and tides, she taught me eight languages and how to make various medicines, but she never thought to teach me to spin and weave and sew, because I was a boy. It seems silly now.

This time I felt my own face redden. Talking with this woman was like sitting still for a series of slaps, delivered arhythmically so you couldn't know when the next one was coming.

Better to embrace what lies within yourself than search for happiness in another,' she says. 'Don't be feared to discover your own power.

A broken heart is not the same as sadness. Sadness occurs when the heart is stone cold and lifeless. On the contrary, there is an unbelievable amount of vitality in a broken heart.

The world wold have been different - and better - if women had had an equal say in the development of literature, medicine, chemistry, physics, peace and economics. Better, not because women are better, but because they are more than half of humanity, representing more than half of what it means to be human.

Your lesson in this lifetime is to find and trust your own precious voice.

every catastrophe can hand us exactly what we need to awaken into who we really are.

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

My advice is, the next time you see someone you think you need to rescue, walk quickly away on the far side of the street.

She did not want to be Bilong's mother, or her grandmother. She had done with these roles, with being a good child, a good wife, a good mother. She had put seventy-odd years into it; she had worked hard at it; now she wanted to be that Ofelia who painted and carved and sang in an old cracked voice with strange creatures and their stranger music. The

my nature does not lend itself to the meekness required of a wife in our society. I could not endure a man who would let himself be ruled by me, and I would not endure a man who tried to rule me.

When, oh when will justice and reason prevail, and Woman descend from the pedestal on which Man has placed her (in order to prevent her from doing anything except standing perfectly still) and take her rightful place beside him?

could not endure a man who would let himself be ruled by me, and I would not endure a man who tried to rule me. However

Submission to what people call their 'lot' is simply ignoble. If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another.

One loved being with Lotty. With her one was free, and yet befriended.

This separate life, this freezing loneliness, she had had enough of it. Why shouldn't she too be happy? Why on earth—the energetic expression matched her mood of rebelliousness—shouldn't she too be loved and allowed to love?

There came a moment, she imagined, in the lives of most unmarried daughters, and perhaps in other people's too, when they must either bolt or go permanently under.

There is no help, except what you dig out of your own self; and if I could make you see that I would have shown you all the secrets of life.

I also learned an essential truth: When you have no real power, go public—really public. The public is where the real power is.

Pick your own act of defiance, something that says to you—and to others—that you won't go along with the hate.

You can't fix a problem you can't see. Simply saying that the laws (or the economy, or the rules that govern policing, or anything else) are racially blind doesn't mean that reality is racially blind. To attack problems head-on--to be anti-racist--begins with asking questions about race.

FLY THE PLANE, MADDIE.

But people need lift, too. People don't get moving, they don't soar, they don't achieve great heights, without something buoying them up.