Quotes About Empowerment

I have no husband, sir. Nor am I eager to acquire one. From my observation, husbands tend to limit a woman's adventures.

I am always happy when my body remembers to feel things other than scared.

If she'd learned anything about herself over the years it was that self-doubt inevitably led to self-destruction.

This was the life that had been given to me. What I made of it was up to me. I

Kita akan sanggup mengubah suatu kebudayaan dengan cara memberikan para perempuan anak bangsa alat yang tepat untuk tumbuh terdidik agar mereka dapat menolong diri sendiri. (Amartya Sen)

It is the interactive presence of these two features of deprivation – being low class and being female – that can massively impoverish women from the less privileged classes.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

I'm thankful for the work that feminists like Gloria Steinem have done. I am a feminist, but the geography for women today is vastly different than it was in the '60s.

Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

I believe that gay people are different, uniquely gifted with the insights and brilliance that stepping outside the heterosexual norm has given us. That is exactly the source of our power.

When I receive letters from girls that say, 'You give me confidence ' I think, 'Wow, this is amazing.' That's my goal: to let people know it's truly what's on the inside that counts.

I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.

It's not your fault. But healing your own pain does belong to you now.

People marched not just because of what Donald Trump did, but because of what all the Donald Trumps have always done. Women marched not just because a woman had lost, but because we too were all done with losing.

This world demands nothing short of perfection from women who aim high, and our need to see perfection in women has, until recently, far outweighed our need for their participation.

Putting our minds to something has never been the problem. The problem has been: Who decides whose mind is worthy?

am in a body. It is not the one I came here with, but it is the one I'll leave here in. I will take care of it. It belongs to me now. My pain, I will take care of it. It belongs to me now.

I want to say to the new guys here, look, it's okay to process your shit however you want to. It's your shit. It's no one else's shit. As long as you're not hurting someone else. Your hell is yours and you get to decide, okay? You get to decide when you're ready. It's important that I say this, though: It's not your fault, whatever happened to you. It's not your fault. But healing your own pain does belong to you now.

am in a body. It is not the one I came here with, but it is the one I'll leave here in. I will take care of it. It belongs to me now. My pain, I will take care of it. It belongs to me now. My heart, I will take care of it. It belongs to me now. My story, I will take care of it. It belongs to me now.

Amber Tamblyn

I'll be the girl they say pink things to, so weightless she arrives by ghost.

No one can make you a victim but yourself.

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.

As soon as we left the ground I knew I myself had to fly!