Quotes About Empowerment

I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts — that's not what I think of as sexy.

You can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself," Margot promised.

Jack didn't happen to me: I happened to Jack.

Girls just want to have funds.

Archaeology reveals that about one out of three or four nomad women of the steppes was an active warrior buried with her weapons.

The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

My visionary anger cleansing my sight.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.The beak that grips her, she becomes.

But can you imagine how some of them were envying you your freedom to work, to think, to travel, to enter a room as yourself, not as some child's mother or some man's wife?…we have no familiar, ready-made name for a woman who defines herself, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is self-identified, who has chosen herself.

Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness

If I cling to circumstances I could feel not responsible. Only she who says she did not choose, is the loser in the end.

This is what I am: watching the spider rebuild - "patiently", they say, but I recognise in her impatience - my own- the passion to make and make again where such unmaking reigns the refusal to be a victim we have lived with violence so long Am I to go on saying for myself, for her This is my body, take it and destroy it?

if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.

Any woman who has moved from the playing fields of male discourse into the realm where women are developing our own descriptions of the world knows the extraordinary sense of shedding, as it were, the encumbrance of someone else's baggage, of ceasing to translate.

The body has been made so problematic for women that it has often seemed easier to shrug it off and travel as a disembodied spirit.

An education is not something that you get, but something that you claim.

Some ideas are not really new but keep having to be affirmed from the ground up, over and over. One of these is the apparently simple idea that women are as intrinsically human as men, that neither women nor men are merely the enlargement of a contact sheet of genetic encoding, biological givens. Experience shapes us, randomness shapes us, the stars and weather, our own accommodations and rebellions, above all, the social order around us.

Well, she's long about her coming, who must be more merciless to herself than history. Her mind full to the wind, I see her plunge breasted and glancing through the currents, taking the light upon her at least as beautiful as any boy or helicopter, poised, still coming, her fine blades making the air wince but her cargo no promise then: delivered palpable ours.

The living, politicized woman claims to be a person whether she is attached to a family or not, whether she is attached to a man or not, whether she is a mother or not.

I have to learn alone to turn my body without force in the deep element.

Procreative choice is for women an equivalent of the demand for the legally limited working day which Marx saw as the great watershed for factory workers in the nineteenth century. The struggles for that "modest Magna Carta," as Marx calls it… did not end capitalism, but they changed the relation of the workers to their own lives.

we begin to discover the erotic in female terms: as that which is unconfined to any single part of the body or solely to the body itself.

I refuse to become a seeker for cures. Everything that has ever helped me has come through what already lay stored in me. Old things, diffuse, unnamed, lie strong across my heart. This is from where my strength comes, even when I miss my strength even when it turns on me like a violent master.

You were a woman walked on a leash. And they dropped you in the end.