Quotes About Empowerment

figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one. —Calamity Jane

everything within our control is a choice. I

Independence, she's discovered, feels just as good as codependence once did. She's as surprised as anyone to realize this.

conditioned women to eat their own likenesses so they didn't realize that if they banded together, they'd be unstoppable.

Cleo didn't want Bowen, or even Gaby, to tell her how to stay safe in a storm. She didn't want Matty to ask who looked out for her. She did. That was just how it had been since she was seventeen. Besides,

Most little girls in England grow up wanting to marry a prince. Bex grew up wanting to kick James Bond's butt and assume his double-0 ranking.

What is a Gallagher Girl? She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy... a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.

Your memory is your first and best weapon, ladies. Learn to use it.

Hey No one makes me do anything. Not my family. Not your family...not even you.

If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one.

All these years I'd thought being a spy was challenging. Turns out, being a girl is the tricky part.

What is a Gallagher Girl?" Liz asked one final time. "She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy. And now we are at the end of our time at school, and the one thing I know for certain is this: a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.

And yet, she knew she could be.

As Buckingham talked, I couldn't help but remember that there's a reason they call us Gallagher Girls. It's not just because the youngest of us are twelve. It's also because our founder was under twenty. From the very beginning we have been discounted and discredited, underestimated and undervalued. And, for the most part, we wouldn't have it any other way.

And I remembered with a pang what had happened to me the previous summer - that even Gallagher Girls aren't always as strong as they need to be.

If you don't want to be a victim, don't act like one." It was fairly safe to assume that that was the first time anyone had ever spoken to W. W. Hale the Fifth in that manner. Kat was also fairly certain it wouldn't be the last. "I might lose my grandmother's company." Kat gave a smile and held Hale tight. "You won't lose me.

You know, it's okay to admit a little weakness now and then, Cammie. It won't kill you. In fact, I hear it makes you stronger.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words from stupid Russian kidnappers can never hurt me.

Maddie shrugged at that. She actually looked like she might start chanting, Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words from stupid Russian kidnappers can never hurt me .

What is a Gallagher Girl?" Liz asked one final time. "She's a genius, a scientist, a her**ne, a spy. And now we are at the end of our time at school, and the one thing I know for certain is this: A Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be." Thunderous, raucous applause filled the student section. Liz smiled and wiped her eyes. She leaned close to the microphone. "And, most of all, she is my sister.

I didn't run away," I said, louder than I intended. "I left… I knew that I wasn't in danger." I looked down at my hands. "I was the danger

Strapless bras? Well let's just say, I'm the kind of girl who likes things sufficiently strapped.

Knock 'em dead!" I was already inside when Liz yelled after me, "But not literally!

Sometimes the sexism in this country amazes me, but then I remembered that society's tendency to underestimate women is a Gallagher Girl's greatest weapon...