Quotes About Empowerment

Remember the flame, lad, and the void." It was an odd thing Tam had taught him. Concentrate on a single flame and feed all your passions into it—fear, hate, anger—until your mind became empty. Become one with the void, Tam said, and you could do anything.

He did not think anyone needed to look after Nynaeve; around Nynaeve, to his mind, other people needed someone to look after them.

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

When change comes, you can scream and try to force things to stay the same. But you'll usually end up getting trampled. However, if you can direct the changes, they can serve you.

Blood and bloody ashes. Even dead women treated him the way Nynaeve did. Where did they learn it? Were there secret lessons?

He did not own her, and she did not own him. The act of his movement so that they faced the same direction meant far more to her than other gesture could. -Aviendha about Rand

Being in charge isn't always about telling people what to do. Sometimes, it's about knowing when to step out of the way of people who know what they're doing.

It is all right to hate them, Egwene. It is. They deserve it. But it isn't all right to let them make you like they are.

He isn't a horse, Elayne. You don't own him.

Domon would learn; even when a woman needed help, if she did not want it, she made you pay for giving it.

Some men," she said, not raising her eyes from his hand, "choose to seek greatness, while others are forced to it. It is always better to choose than to be forced. A man who's forced is never completely his own master. He must dance on the strings of those who forced him.

Light's truth, if you got a woman to feed you on a regular basis, she was halfway won.

Do not cut off your ears because you do not like your earrings.

A hunter? You? You can not be a hunter. You are a GIRL. - Perin Ibarra to Faiel, in the Dragon Reborn

And I will not allow you to think that you make my decisions, or made them. I am myself, not an appendage to you. Now go away. I must finish these arrows if I am to have even a few shafts that will fly true. I do not mean to kill you, and I would not have it happen by accident." Unstopping the glue pot, she bent over the table. "Do not forget to curtsy like a good girl on your way out.

He now felt just that. Pity for a woman who had never known love, a woman who would not let herself know it. Pity for a woman who could not choose a side other than her own.

But if somebody hit me, I'd hit him back. If I didn't, I would just be encouraging him to think he could hit me whenever he wanted to. Some people think they can take advantage of others, and if you don't let them know they can't, they'll just go around bullying anybody weaker than they are.

If you do not learn from your losses, you will be ruled by them.

Perrin ergueu o machado para atirá-lo no lago, mas Elyas agarrou seu pulso. Você vai usá-lo, garoto, e, enquanto odiar usá-lo, vai usá-lo com mais sabedoria do que a maioria dos homens. Espere. Se algum dia você não o odiar mais, aí sim será hora de jogá-lo o mais longe que puder e correr para o outro lado .

A woman's flaming rights are whatever she flaming says they are." Uno laughed. "That's what women in Shienar say, anyway.

But I defied you!" "A Wise One cannot allow others to step upon her," Amys said. "If she comes into the shade of our sisterhood thinking like an apprentice, then she will never see herself as one of us.

Lead by example. Require strength, but first show it.

A woman is no less a woman because she carries a spear.

Men who tried to stand on their forebears' shoulders rather than their own feet often found themselves shorter by a head.