Quotes About Empowerment

Think about this: What positive changes in your life could happen if you relied on God's unlimited power instead of your limited willpower.

hand God a blank sheet with your name signed at the bottom and tell him to fill in the details. The Bible says, "Give yourselves completely to God — every part of you … to be tools in the hands of God, to be used for his good purposes."21

Amazing things happen when we put our minds to it. There is a saying that seeing is believing. But believing is seeing, as well. And touching. And hearing. Connecting.

One thing I'd learned growing up was that no matter who claimed you, you had to first claim yourself.

Hey, if you don't believe in yourself, then who will?

Not all leaders are elected, Finn. Some just rise to the occasion.

Tolerating is the gift from God to women!

BELINDA'S PETITION (Boston, February 1782) To the honorable Senate and House of Representatives of this Country, new born: I am Belinda, an African, since the age of twelve a Slave. I will not take too much of your Time, but to plead and place my pitiable Life unto the Fathers of this Nation. Lately your Countrymen have severed the Binds of Tyranny. I would hope you would consider the Same for me, pure Air being the sole Advantage of which I can boast in my present Condition.

We must not try to become large in order to become powerful. We must become powerful in order to become large.

High heels were invented by a woman who had once been kissed on the forehead.

Put your money in your head, that way no one can take it from you.

If you can't raise consciousness at least raise hell

I don't care whether they like me or not. Everybody's stupid, that's what I think. I care if I like me, that's what I truly care about.

When I got my library card, that's when my life began.

Freedom means the right to choose how you want to live and it means the right to participate in governmental and economic decisions. You're right, there is a confusion between political freedom and material benefits. But, to me, freedom means being able to shape your environment, working with others. We're all responsible to each other in my concept of freedom.

I didn't want to walk into the pages of McCall's magazine and become the model housewife. I didn't even want a husband or any man for that matter. I wanted to go my own way. That's all I think I ever wanted, to go my own way and maybe find some love here and there. Love, but not the now and forever kind with chains around your vagina and a short circuit in your brain. I'd rather be alone.

She resented being told constantly that she was stupid, when she knew she wasn't.

She believed she could so she did.

Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall.

A witch is always a woman. I do not wish to speak badly about women. Most women are lovely. But the fact remains that all witches are women. There is no such thing as a male witch. (My own thoughts: I love women and I love witches)

The man had a way of making her feel that she was altogether a rather remarkable woman, a person of subtle and exotic talents, fascinating beyond measure; and what a very different thing that was from the dentist husband at home who never succeeded in making her feel that she was anything but a sort of eternal patient, someone who dwelt in the waiting room, silent among the magazines, seldom if ever nowadays to be called in to suffer the finicky precise ministrations of those clean pink hands.

The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers. She whips a pistol from her knickers. She aims it at the creature's head, And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.

People wrote these stories down because they found in them something that helped restore their dignity; the stories gave them a sense of identity; they helped give voice to their pain.

I have been told that I need to believe in Jesus. Which is a good thing. But what I am learning is that Jesus believes in me.