Quotes About Empowerment

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there are praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.

Any woman whose I.Q. hovers above her body temperature must be a feminist.

We all have our la-la-la song. The thing we do when the world isn't singing a nice tune to us. We sing our own nice tune to drown out ugly.

We didn't come for the revolution. We came for breakfast.

Thank goodness you can't see cherries in a chocolate bar. I'd have been a red-faced rose if not for my Hershey brown complexion

Rita Williams-Garcia

We're trying to break yokes. You're trying to make one for yourself.

Most people, Kant continues, are too lazy to think for themselves. They allow guardians of various kinds to think for them, and the guardians are only too happy to take control

When I was growing up, no one could get away with telling me I couldn't do something "because you're a girl." In fact, if someone wanted me not to do something, that was the worst thing they could say: It practically guaranteed I'd run out and try to do it.

What's the link between the woman who boldly fights for social justice and the one who boldly has fun? Both are acting powerfully, because each is rejecting preconceived notions of how females 'should' behave.

Enjoy being bold, and if that is scary at first, marvel at your ability to walk through fear.

No one is coming to save you. You're the only one left for this assignment.

People who create change, change the future for others. Therefore, if you remain idle, the future will control how you change.

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

It boils down to this: you aren't allowed to tell them what their problem is, and in return, they aren't allowed to tell you what to build. They own the problem, you own the solution.

By freeing the mind from its negative and neurotic patterns and liberating our inner potential, we experience a spontaneous response which will be helpful and beneficial to others.