Quotes About Empowerment

And she tried the high heels but she couldn't bring herself to prance.

I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.

As I lay there in my bed, with only the armor of my eyelids shut tight, I learned to completely leave my body. I learned to develop my escape fantasies into plans.

But when I allowed myself to think of her, I remembered the delicacy of her brown body under her orange robe, and I drew courage from knowing that she had needed nothing to guide her but her determined heart. Had there ever been a man who could claim to be as fearless? She had never even held the heavy swords and sharp daggers that gave soldiers their swagger. Khadijeh may have been a slave, but in her heart, she was a lion-woman.

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish. It is the simplest thing in the world to decide what you want to do – or, rather, what you don't want to do – and just to act on that.

Fortunately, common sense asserted itself and I vowed that I should never wait for anyone again.

But the fact that for the first time in her life she had managed to convince herself of her rights might embolden her to assert her wishes again.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to looks once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish. It is the simplest thing in the world to decide what you want to do - or, rather, what you don't want to do - and just to act on that.

A girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.

I'm interested in any ingredient that has a history, that's been used by women, that works

Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.

Sherman Alexie: Reading centers on finding yourself in a book.

Reading centers on finding yourself in a book.

The act of reading to a child is the most important contribution to the future of our society that adults can make.

Don't count on God to make things happen, what if the God itself is counting on you.

No one should have the power to make you feel small. Remember, you are the one with the power to create your happiness.

Your happiness is the greatest revenge against those who bring you down.

Take a woman dancing and she'll have fun for one night; teach a woman how to dance and she'll have fun for the rest of her life.

If there's one thing I've learned in all this, it's that you have to stand up for yourself. Nobody else is going to do it for you, least of all the people you ought to be able to depend on." - Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind

We are following the blacks ... And we will follow, entering, perhaps, the same time as women.

It's just that she always seemed indestructible. I never saw her tired or upset or vulnerable. She was one of those women who can face anything the world has to throw at her.