Quotes About Empowerment

Don't call the doctor, don't call ya mamma, don't call the preacher; no, I don't need it.

Existen mujeres que nacieron para sobrevivir y hay otras que nacieron para volar.

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

In Yuri's early years of activism, [Mae] Mallory served as an important political mentor. Not only did Mallory have a visible leadership role, usually reserved for men, she also, remarked Yuri, 'taught me how to be a good Movement person. She was always on time, responsible & reliable, accurate in giving out information, and she wanted other people to be the same.

They're threatened by you,' she said. 'You chose to do something they'd never have the gumption to choose for themselves. Being their own person.

A state that has denied opportunity for quality education for Negroes has no right to demand literacy as a prerequisite for voting

barely test in the normal range, but that woman could run this farm. She graduated from the colored high school in Ridley, which is no small feat given the environment she grew up in.

state that has denied opportunity for quality education for Negroes has no right to demand literacy as a prerequisite for voting

dykes were put here to tip the scales! we have a very important job and i wouldn't trade it for the world. give me a choice between breeding, accelerated aging, living with an orangutan, and maid duty for life...or, autonomy, black boots, multiple orgasms, cats instead of kids, people who say what they mean, and nothing stopping me from doing whatever i wanna do...and guess which one i pick?

If the world is ever in the throes of Armageddon, it's the women who'll be left standing.

My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.

I'm not one of those women who thinks beauty is a curse.

I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.

My parents treated me like I had a brain–which, in turn, caused me to have one.

A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.

According to its Web site, Parent Revolution "invented" the idea of the "parent trigger" and persuaded the state senator Gloria Romero to include it in her education reform legislation. If 51 percent of the parents in a low-performing school sign a petition, the law says, the parents may take control of the school, its staff, and its budget, fire some or all of the staff, or turn the school over to a charter management

You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself about getting older... The minute you say to yourself, 'Time is everything, and I'm going to make sure that time is used the way I dream it should be used,' then you've got a whole different story.

Do learn to say no. Many people will take and take from you, and keep on taking. They will drain you, aggravate you, impose upon you, and take advantage of you—if you let them do it. Your job is not to let them.

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

Dianna and Karen