Quotes About Empowerment

Women help one another survive much in this world

consuming fresh, nutrient-dense food that is additive-free is one of the most empowering steps parents can take to enhance their own health and at the same time, protect the health of their children.

Holding on to resentments and anger can ruin your quality of life. The only person who suffers from your failure to forgive is you—it is not the other guy. When you stay hostile or resentful, it tears down your immune system and increases your risk of disease.

When Shaundelle turned and looked back at Nonie she had her lips pursed. "The man say wear whatever you want. Wear black, girl. It's slimmin', not that you need any slimmin' with your skinny self, but it makes me look like I've been dietin' for a week. I don't want to be the only one wearin' black, so wear black, okay?

Yes, there had been many times I called my daughters back to zip up their coats. All the same, I knew they would rather be cold and free.

we do not have to conform to the way our life has been written for us, especially by those who are less imaginative than ourselves.

She knew she never wanted children or to serve his breakfast or run his errands or pretend she was not intellectually engaged with the world to make herself more loveable to him.

I want to get away from the kinship structures that are supposed to hold me together. To mess up the story I have been told about myself. To hold the story upside down by its tail.

It was hard to accept that the first man in my life would do things that were to my disadvantage if they were to his advantage. Yet it was a revelation that somehow set me free.

Cuando una mujer tiene que encontrar una forma nueva de vivir y rompe con la historia social que ha borrado su nombre, se espera que se odie a sí misma atrozmente, que enloquezca de dolor, que llore arrepentida. Son las joyas reservadas para ella en la corona del patriarcado, siempre a su disposición. No faltan las lágrimas, pero es mejor atravesar la oscuridad negra y azulada que quedarse con esas joyas que nada valen

In her view, this is because a man's love of a woman is not what gives him his self-worth. I was no longer interested in exploring this kind of dynamic in

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly. Deborah Norville

Women are like tea bags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water. — ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

It is the power of a girl with a book that is the best weapon for progress

It is the power of a girl with a book that is the best weapon for progress. (...) Because with educated women comes prosperity. And with our voices comes mercy. And with our strength comes change.

Precisamos fazer as coisas que achamos que não conseguimos.

So that is why the extremists try to keep girls from going to school? That is the reason we are poisoned and beaten, and our teachers threatened and killed?

Don't let fear of other people's reactions or rejection paralyze you from moving forward. You are more valuable than you think. Besides, you have powerful friends in high places—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit!

B]y not standing firm and by not exercising tough love, we often cause the figurative "death" of others and sometimes ourselves, our goals, our destiny.

to be an artist is to assert one's will, but to be a woman is to relinquish it.

The characteristics of a good man and a good candidate are the same, but a woman has to choose between coming across as a strong leader or a good woman. If a man appears forceful, logical, direct, masterful, and powerful, he enhances his value as a man. If a woman appears forceful, logical, direct, masterful, or powerful, she risks undercutting her value as a woman.

There are all kinds of ways to be in the world. And no matter what has happened to us, or what we have been told, or what we have believed, we get to choose our way.

There is nothing like Betty Ford sex.

you have not been placed on this earth to be the sole source of comfort for the black man's fragile ego. Page 221