Quotes About Empowerment

It wasn't awful to be a man's sex object if you wanted to be, if it made you feel good, if everyone was happy in the end.

As a girl, as a woman, how did you possibly win? When faced with a whole damn life full of sexual situations and decisions, how did you possibly make all the right moves?

Make every negative into a positive," as my mother says. Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs...And she does it while smiling the whole time. It's kind of a joke, but then again it's not, especially if you're a male pro trailing in her wake. To have this woman in the middle of such a suffer fest out there crushing people and smiling all the way...

If people are saying you shouldn't attack, they aren't thinking what's best for you.

Women can be wives and mothers but they can never be people.

Besides, though she considered herself his sweetheart, she didn't consider him her master.

When he walked out into the lots to catch his horse, he felt grown and complete for the first time in his life.

That in itself didn't bother her, though. If there was one thing she didn't need to do, it was to talk to a man.

She may know what I am, though, Lorena said. Yes, she'll know you're a human being. You don't have to duck your head to nobody. Half the women in this country probably started out like you did, workin' in saloons.

True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want.

I love you, and I want you to love me. But I do not want you to lose yourself in me, or in anyone. Nor do I want you to draw your self-confidence and your trust in life from me or from anyone else. I want you to have your own individual, independent self, and the confidence that can only spring from the self, not from others. Then -When you have achieved that - no one will ever be able to crush you.

I needed to be free to choose not to be free, get me? If someone told me I had to be a slave, 'cause I'm a woman, or 'cause I'm black, I'd fight like hell to be free. I need to know that everything I do is my decision. That's what makes it OK.

Most of the time, the only thing stopping us is ourselves.

It's never about someone else the moment you realize it is up to you to get yourself to a better place. It's only about figuring out how to get there.

But I knew the other part wasn't about me, so I decide not to make it about me now. It's never about someone else the moment you realize it is up to you to get yourself to a better place. It's only about figuring out how to get there.

I had no problem being on my own. My grandfather had raised me to depend on myself. My problems came when I tried to fit myself into someone else's life, especially when that meant giving up a part of myself in the process.

I think it's a good thing to know what you want. If you do, you have a chance of getting it. If you don't, you have a chance of getting only what someone else wants you to have.

Do I have a choice?" she says. "Yes," I say. "Always. With me you always do.

think it's a good thing to know what you want. If you do, you have a chance of getting it. If you don't, you have a chance of getting only what someone else wants you to have.

We accept them if we are strong enough. Or we accept them enough to not let the bad parts become the entire story.

it's a good thing to know what you want. If you do, you have a chance of getting it. If you don't, you have a chance of getting only what someone else wants you to have.

Did it every occur to you that if you weren't living in fear of other people's opinions of you, no one would have the power to take anything away?

A Tita le encantaría ser una simple semilla, no tener que dar cuentas a nadie de lo que se estaba gestando en su interior, y poder mostrarle al mundo su vientre germinado sin exponerse al rechazo de la sociedad. Las semillas no tenían este tipo de problemas, sobre todo, no tenían madre a la que temer, ni miedo a que las enjuiciaran.