Quotes About Empowerment

Old guns are better than no guns.

You're a woman, Katie. You don't need any other reason for them to think you're incompetent.

When you recognize a weakness, it is a wonderful thing—because then you can ask for help.

Meek—free from the addiction to ordinary power—you can become a conduit of true divine power to the world.

We must have his life in us by the Spirit if we are to do his work and practice his teaching.

Do you want to know the secret of pain? If you just stop feeling it, you can start to use it.

To all those women -- strong enough to be heroes; fair enough to be ladies. This song is for you.

Othalas: Chosen don't choose themselves!

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found out it was ourselves.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and his fellow men.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenseless are protected and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of man. The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone.

When I think of how much this world has suffered; when I think of how long our fathers were slaves, of how they cringed and crawled at the foot of the throne, and in the dust of the altar, of how they abased themselves, of how abjectly they stood in the presence of superstition robed and crowned, I am amazed.

There is not the slightest danger of women becoming too intellectual or knowing too much. Neither is there any danger of men knowing too much. At least, I know of no men who are in immediate peril from that source.

The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow-men.

We rise by raising others

To accomplish this there is but one way. Science must make woman the owner, the mistress of herself. Science, the only possible savior of mankind, must put it in the power of woman to decide for herself whether she will or will not become a mother.

Mental slavery is mental death, and every man who has given up his intellectual freedom is the living coffin of his dead soul.