Quotes About Empowerment

Middle-class gorls, with their mammies and daddies paying their way, they could afford to burn their bras and have hairy armpits.

It was no good waiting for anyone else to save me. I had to save me.

She was a great improver of people, Margot—whether they wished to be improved or not,

the walking stick, like a burqa, conferred protective status...

Pretending you're OK when you aren't isn't strength.

and 'woman as she is now in this eon… armed and militant.'" "A radical feminist witch." "Which sounds quite cool when you say it,

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

The truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you angry.

When the world is civilized, no wife will become a mother against her will. Man will then know that to enslave another is to imprison himself.

Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.

No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.

Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, I'm up for that.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Delegating work works, provided the one delegating works, too.

The effective delegator Does not feel insecure Has confidence in subordinates Uses schedules when planning Knows the value of delegating Ensures staff are trained

There is a danger in letting a camera make all its preprogrammed decisions for you:

Circumstances and situations do color life, but you have been given the mind to choose what the color shall be.

You can only be held back by your past if you use it to reject yourself in the present. Your

The cyclists best chance is to gather all the responsibility that can be gathered. Hoard it from those around you. Have faith that you will do a better job with it than they will, and make it so. [...] Don't leave your fate to the stars, or to luck.

In short, if you are a boss, ask yourself: 'Who have I anointed as stars?' Think of your workplace more broadly and ask, 'Do we anoint people who bolster or bring down others' performance and humanity?

This is our company—it's not theirs—it's ours.

The best bosses break down problems into bite-sized pieces and talk and act like each little task is something that people can complete without great difficulty.

Sometimes, the best management is no management at all. Jeffrey Pfeffer likes to say that managers should be required to take something like the physician's oath: "First, do no harm.

The protective powers of such "upward hostility" seem striking: abused employees who fought back harder were less prone to see themselves as victims, more satisfied with their jobs and careers, less distressed, and more committed to their organizations.