Quotes About Empowerment

Andrea Davis Pinkney

sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me.

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor, the rapist instead of the raped, the murderer instead of the murdered.

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of I am afraid, we say, I don't want to, or I don't know how, or I can't.

Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so.

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Antifeminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is the political defense of woman hating.

Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice... Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?

The tragedy is that women so committed to survival cannot recognize that they are committing suicide.

Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.

Avon is a unique place to work we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company 46 percent of our officers are women.

We went up and up into the heavens until people were just dots below us. As we hung right at the top--the twinkling electric lights below mingling with the stars--Father said something I will never forget. He said, 'See here, Queenie. Look around. You've got the whole world at your feet, lass.

Ceaseless. Almost too much for this small frame. You make me part of the sky.

The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat." —Cicely Tyson

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Talk! Talk! Talk!' he exclaimed after yet another convention of a pacifist abolitionist society. 'That will never free the slaves! What is needed is action – action.

Choose to choose. One of the great traps of life is being stuck. Stuck in a job you don't like, a relationship that has run its course, your level of healthiness or wealth are all things that you can change if you invoke the right and privilege to choose to choose. Trapping yourself in your own thoughts is a formula for failure and an unhappy life.

Get your BUT out of the way of your own success.

Trust your instincts and your talents, you will be surprised how often they lead you on the right course of action" Andreas Simic

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb a little.

Submission comes from a position of weakness, acceptance from a position of strength.

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Change couldn't be stopped...but people always had choices, didn't they? Even if change was being forced on you...you still had a choice: You could either give up and accept someone else's ideas about change, or you could fight for the kind of changes you believed in.

she would often remind herself that her thoughts were free no matter how oppressive her life might sometimes feel.