Quotes About Empowerment

I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.

Il n'y a rien comme l'amour pour donner du courage aux jeunes gens.

Est-ce qu'une femme a besoin de savoir jouer et chanter ? Ah ! mon petit, tu es trop bête... Nana a autre chose, parbleu ! et quelque chose qui remplace tout.

But now the miner was waking up under the ground, germinating in the earth like good seed, and one fine morning you would see him springing up like corn in the fields; yes, men would spring up, an army of men to bring justice back into the world.

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see heaven's glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear

don't degrade yourself into an abject reptile — don't.

I'll be as dirty as I please, and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty!

If I wasn't a perfect woman, I'd bust you in the nose.

You can only control your own actions. Not other people's reactions.

Women in the twenty-first century (which still sounds so funny to my ears) have options. We can marry or not marry; have children or not have children; be stay-at-home mothers or have careers. So yes, I told her, I want to get married, and yes, I want to find a life mate sooner rather than later, but that didn't make me a bad feminist. It just made me determined to have it all—

Those the brownies will not help, must learn to help themselves

Suddenly I could imagine all the things my body might do when I wasn't there to stop it and I felt so vile they might as well have happened. Maybe they had; they just hadn't left marks. I thought about a future full of blank spaces, and I knew I couldn't bear it. If that was the future, I had to escape it.

Change for your own sake, if you must, not for what you imagine another will ask of you.

Once I was a stupid girl; now I am an angry woman.

And why must it always be presumed that a woman's views are based on personal considerations?

One of them asked what was in my skirts to make them so heavy, and I said, Knives, and he took his hand off my thigh and never touched me again.

All the women I knew carried some kind of blade, though they were not all metal, or even visible. Whether something had happened to them, or whether they had only anticipated it, it kept them awake the occasional night

Scared is what you're feeling, says Ma, but brave is what you're doing.

She struggled to think of one day in more than fifteen years of life when instead of drifting along like a leaf on the river she'd simply grabbed what she wanted. The

If I ever got around to loving anyone else, I thought suddenly, it would have to be someone who would neither muffle my thunder nor steal it.

Freedom from versus freedom to.

What's wrong with you, girl, that you would make yourself over again?

From having nursed alongside a variety of women, Lib knew that self-mastery counted for more than almost any other talent. She

When I was as young as you are now I learned how to save my own life.