Quotes About Empowerment

Because we are superwomen. Because it's how we are. We're high, we're sleep deprived, and we're still doing all the shit. If my husband doesn't get his full eight hours, he'll mention it the whole next day, as if he spent the dark time keeping flesh-eating zombies from gaining entry to our house. Not middle-aged women. They get up from a bed they've never slept in, put on an underwire and some mascara, and do it all over again. And no one knows.

Expert Tip: "Your ankles are swollen from carrying the weight of the patriarchy all of these years."—Danika Hill, MAW

For a man who claimed not to care much for women, Mr Holmes sure found some strong ones.

Everyone is allowed a weakness, even women of the twentieth century.

Every so often, one encounters a woman of her type who reaches past the distractions of position, pleasure, and society's assumptions to become something greater. And even more rarely, one finds a woman who craves not power, but the chance to create something new.

When rape is inevitable, lie back and enjoy it.

Don and I took Bill Coons and made a writer out of him.

Give a man a fish,' he said, 'and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and for the rest of his life you can sell him rods and reels and hooks and leaders and flies and lures and God only knows what else.

He inhabits now that part of himself Which lay formerly desolate and uncolonised. - Mark of Patmos

There's nothing in the world so sad as talking to a man who never knew his life was his for making.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.

I find that through the sad times, work is what made my continuing, not breaking down, possible. In work, I was always someone else and I subconsciously reveled in that.

It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.

Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.

If love found me it can surely find you. I ain't even got one sad tear left in me.

It makes me sad to hear girls constantly putting themselves down. We have these unbelievably high expectations of ourselves, when actually we're human beings and our bodies have a function.

The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

Art for me is the science of freedom.

This is one of the great social functions of science - to free people from superstition

A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts.

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.

I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves.

We are not trapped in what the science of management says we can do. We are capable of doing what the art of leadership says is possible.