Quotes About Empowerment

I am an expert at not wanting to want things. But I'm starting to realize that the person I need to be, the person I'm becoming—she's not that girl anymore." I'd been given the world. It was time to stop living scared, time to take the reins. It was time to take risks.

Mijn vermogen om het bange, weerloze meisje neer te zetten was nu wel verdwenen.

She is one of us. We protect her.

Nothing has to matter unless you let it.

Because we can. Because when people say that well-behaved women rarely make history, they leave out the little tidbit that the women who do make history rarely do so alone.

Ik doe niet aan kwetsbaar,' antwoordde Thea. 'Dat past niet bij mijn bitchy stijl.

I wasn't a puzzle. I was just a girl.

Nothing has to matter," Grayson replied tightly, "unless you let it.

I don't do vulnerable," Thea retorted. "It clashes with my bitch aesthetic.

If you let this be a game, it doesn't have to hurt.

Even if no one else loves you, you can. Even if no one else ever puts you first, you can.

Vanaf nu ben je volwassen.' Alisa leek behoorlijk tevreden met zichzelf. 'Nu kun je je eigen testament opstellen.

The kind of man who would take a woman—he's no man at all.

The world is your motherfaxing oyster. It's okay to want things.

When I saw a problem, I solved it. I wouldn't stay powerless for long.

Eve reached out to stop me before I could. "Could I do this part alone?

This is the place where anybody - like an African American kid raised by a single mom - can be president.

Fear does that to a person: shrinks them down, makes them small and weak.

Shape your reality. Make it true because you say it is.

She was tough enough to chop a hole in the ice and swim in January, so it was hard to think of her being trapped by her own mind.

Hattie had learned, over the years, to put her own fears in a box at the back of her mind, to stand tall and brave, to be resilient to whatever enemy presented itself.

You're facing your demons. You'll come out stronger.

have the keys to my prison in my own hand, and no remedy presents itself so soon to my heart as mine own sword.

Do whatever it takes to remind myself that I'm still here and have a say.