Quotes About Empowerment

If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers.

Don't look for society to give you permission to be yourself.

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slavery is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you.

De nigger woman is de mule uh de world so fur as Ah can see. Ah been prayin' fuh it tuh be different wid you.

Two things everybody's got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin' fuh theyselves.

She didn't read books so she didn't know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.

Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

Here was peace. She pulled in her horizon like a great fish-net. Pulled it from around the waist of the world and draped it over her shoulder. So much of life in its meshes! She called in her soul to come and see.

The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

He taught me housekeeping when I divorce I keep the house.

I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man, I keep his house.

Wenn ein Mann zurueckweicht, weicht er zurueck. Eine Frau weicht nur zurueck, um besser Anlauf nehmen zu koennen.

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

Una mujer solo retrocede para coger carrerilla

I was standing there, waiting for someone to do something, till I realized the person I was waiting for was myself.

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

Quien busque la supervivencia asesinando la humanidad de otro ser humano sólo consigue sobrevivir a la muerte de su propia humanidad.

If political rights are necessary to set social rights in place, social rights are indispensable to make political rights 'real' and keep them in operation. The two rights need each other for their survival; that survival can only be their joint achievement.

Memories should console, not enslave.

When we blend courage and compassion, assertiveness and gentleness, our essential strength and kindness support us in being where we are.

The oppressed grows weightless: doze/n th/rough c/and/or man/aged leg/ions stud/ents

Stop it, and give yourself a chance.

Beneath the saccharine, air brushed girls-can-do-anything image is a ruthless contempt for women and girls who have not sold themselves to the right bidder by performing the neo-liberal strip tease of self-empowerment.

The way black women say girl can be magical. Frankly, I have no solid beliefs about the survival of consciousness after physical death. But if it's going to happen I know what I want to see after my trek toward the light. I want to see a black woman who will smile and say, Girl....