Quotes About Empowerment

Your body is a longbow carved from hickory, her father said. Your body is a blade sharpened by tears, her mother said.

Giacomina had taught her daughter that you must dig constantly for meaning in the sorrow of this life, and that this sorrow must galvanize you, not define you.

Women move through the world never knowing their power.

Or maybe when she realized that he was never going to come and rescue her, she did what all strong women do. She found a way to save herself.

When you fall in love (...) it has to be from a place of strength. It has to be because you want to build something, not because you need to cling to someone to shore you up or save you.

At long last, somebody believes in her. Tonight in this exchange she has gained the tools with which she will build her self esteem: She has been chosen and she has security. Maybe this is all that a person ever needs to succeed. Pearl has been picked, and that has begun to define her.

The girl who built her life so carefully so she'd never have to ask anybody for anything. I have had it with me. Whoever I was!

When you find your purpose in life, it changes you. You see things differently. More clearly. You love more and better. You solve problems and are able to help others solve theirs because you stand in strength.

Even when we're broken, we're beautiful.

Powder and lipstick are the tank and the rifle in a woman's beauty arsenal." The

Who waits around for a compliment? Ask for it. Then take it. And when you do, you realize you knew the truth all along and you didn't need anybody else's opinion in the first place. No one has to tell you that you did a good job.

Remember, the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.

You patronize me like some little woman with no mind to call her own. I speak with heart devoid of fear to those with wit to understand, and you can praise me or condemn me as you like, it's all the same to me.

Self-help is the best help.

It is no use being your own master unless you can stand up for yourself.

Pain was no longer a mystery to him, and a man familiar with pain has entered a new kind of freedom.

She is walking around the living room naked and

Paul's greatest contribution to the progressive cause wasn't what he accomplished in the senate, although he accomplished a lot. It's the way he inspired others to take action, and taught them to be effective, and gave them the confidence to stand up and shout about what they believed it.

politics is about the improvement of people's lives." I

You're not supposed to have to be rich or lucky to have a chance to do great things. Opportunity is supposed to be for everyone. And that's why I'm a Democrat.

Let's make sure our ideas of success are our own, that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions.

that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others … Many of the persons commonly considered wealthy are, in reality, no more wealthy than the locks of their own strong boxes, they being inherently and eternally incapable of wealth.

You are allowed to be.

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