Quotes About Empowerment

I'm not Team Gale or Team Peeta. I'm Team Katniss...the core story in the Hunger Games trilogy has less to do with who Katniss ends up with and more to do with who she is - because sometimes, in books and in life, it's not about the romance. Sometimes, it's about the girl.

Little Sisters' Survival Guide, rule number thirty-seven," Skylar said. "Scream before they hit you.

Is it smash the patriarchy? I hope it's smash the patriarchy.

I'm not the glass ballerina," I said firmly. "I'm not going to shatter.

Don't you ever apologize for being what you are.

Nothing hurts you unless you let it.

Left with nothing but my own bloody fingertips, I let out a war cry of my own, raked my nails over its face, and fought like a girl.

You're a billionaire now. You have an entire team of people to protect you. The world is your motherfaxing oyster. It's okay to want things." Max turned off the shower. "It's okay to go after what you want.

Hawthornes aren't supposed to break, his voice whispered in my memory. Especially me.

If one thing was perfectly, crystalline clear, it was that I could take care of myself. I just kept coming and coming and coming. I was what I was.

A few months ago, she'd gotten a tattoo, a single word inked from wrist bone to wrist bone, just under the heel of her hand. SURVIVOR.

I was supposed to have an edge. But sharp-edged girls had feelings, too.

You want power-either because you've already had a taste of it and want more, or because you've been made to feel powerless for too long.

At that point in time, there were three things in life that I knew for certain: (1) I was a girl who'd never met a site she couldn't hack or a code she couldn't break, (2) I had a roundhouse that could put a grown man in the hospital, and (3) I would without question chop off my own hands before I'd come within five feet of a pom-pom

Some people said that broken bones grew back stronger. On the good days, I told myself that was true, that each time the world tried to break me, I became a little less breakable.

Nothing. You know what that feels like. Reach for it. Grab it. Make it yours.

Women shouldn't have to fade into the background to be safe.

What fun is it playing by other people's rules?

Don't," Judd told her sharply. "Don't you ever apologize for being what you are.

What kind of person would I be if I prided myself on being different from other girls?

I don't do vulnerable. It clashes with my bitch aesthetic.

you have to see the world to change it.

I'm not scared of this place. I'm not afraid to learn how to think like a killer, and I'm not afraid of you. [Cassandra Hobbes]

That's my girl!" Xander bellowed. "Woman," Max corrected. "That's my woman! In a completely not possessive and absolutely unpatriarchal kind of way!