Quotes About Empowerment

I love myself enough-not in a schmaltzy garbage sense, Hallmark stuff, I'm talking respect myself-I respect my life-force enough to no longer waste it.

I was particularly talking with respect to aid, because that to me is one area that can make people so dependent, and unfortunately, that dependency starts with the government.

I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.

Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

The future of Haiti must be linked to the respect of the rights of every single citizen.

When you start really respecting yourself, those you love, and your money, the result is that you start having control over your money. What follows from that is control over your life.

Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.

I respect my boundaries, and I insist that others respect them, too.

After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you.

To me, liberation doesn't mean that I can think just like a man. Real liberation means that I can think, act, and be like a woman and receive equal respect, honor, and compensation.

The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety.

Respecting yourself is key - physically and mentally.

You are greater than you can possibly imagine, if you would only free yourself up to imagine.

Happiness is the highest form of self-respect. A person who allows himself to be happy shows his self-respect.

People treat you with as much, or as little respect as you allow them to.

Why should I take my clothes off (...) when there are, already, so many other woman doing it for me?

I would never forbid you. I can't forbid you. It's not in my power to, and it never should be.

Teach people how to treat you

Empowered Women 101: A confident woman doesn't have to talk a man into loving her. He either loves her completely, not enough or not at all. Regardless, she doesn't settle for less than she deserves.

I may not be a king or a queen, but I'll be damned if I'm not treated like royalty.

While it is best to believe in oneself, a little more from others can be a great blessing, a thing to be thankful for.

If you're so far down the totem pole that someone considers it a favor to you just to have you in their circle (no matter how far outside the ring you are), you should probably cut them out of yours.

Oooh you think I'm cute when I'm angry?? Well get ready, cause I'm about to get GORGEOUS!