Quotes About Empowerment

Weren't you wearing a purity ring when we got here? Aren't you supposed to be saving yourself? Shanti asked. Yeah, Mary Lou answered. And then I thought, for what? You save leftovers. My sex is not a leftover, and it is not a Christmas present.

I'm a wild girl from a cursed line of women. I paw at the ground and run under the moon. I like the feel of my own body. I'm not a slut or a nympho or someone who's just asking for it. And if I talk too loud it's just that I'm trying to be heard.

I refuse to let the past find me here.

The world expected girls to pluck and primp and put on heels. Meanwhile, boys dressed in rumpled T-shirts and baggy pants and misplace their combs, and yet you were suppose to fall at their feet? Unacceptable.

Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are

In school, they would tell you that life wouldn't come to you; you had to go out and make it your own. But when it came to love, the message for girls seemed to be this: Don't. Don't go after what you want. Wait. Wait to be chosen, as if only in the eye of another could one truly find value. The message was confusing and infuriating. It was a shell game with no actual pea under the rapidly moving cups.

Life don't come to you, Memphis. You gotta take it. We have to take it. Because ain't nobody handing it to us.

I am no longer content to be the scared, obedient schoolgirl. Who are you, a stranger, to tell me what I can and cannot do?

My personal motto is: WWWWD?: What Would Wonder Woman Do?

I can be whatever. You can be whatever. We can be whatever. Whatever, together.

There was something about the island that made the girls forget who they had been. All those rules and shalt nots. They were no longer waiting for some arbitrary grade. They were no longer performing. Waiting. Hoping. They were becoming. They were.

See, now I don't know whether to be all 'Yay!' because you're empowered or sad because you're having delusional almost-sex with an imaginary boyfriend.

Does my new feminism make me look fat?

Perhaps this is how girls fall -- not in some crime of enchantment at the hands of a wicked ne'er-do-well, a grand before and after in which they are innocent victims who have no say in the matter. Perhaps they simply are kissed and want to kiss back. Perhaps they even kiss first. And why should they not?

I'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.

You have a steady fella?" Sam asked after a bit. "No fella can hold me for long." Sam gave her a sideways glance. "That a challenge?" "No. A statement of fact.

The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their lives are small and careful. I do not wish to live this way. I should like to make my mark. To venture opinions that may not be polite or even correct but are mine nonetheless. If I am to be hanged for anything, I should like to feel that I go to the gallows on my own strength.

I love myself. They make it so hard for us to love ourselves.

What makes a girl a girl? What makes a guy a guy? Do you have to be what they want you to be? Or do you stop and listen to that voice inside you? I know who I am. I'm Petra West. And I'm a girl. You want me to sleep somewhere else, fine. Whatever. But I'm not going to pretend to be somebody I'm not. I've done enough of that.

Chin held high, Miss Ohio beamed at an imagined crowd. I want to be a motivational speaker. What are you going to motivate people to do? Smile still in place, she cut her eyes at Adina. You know. Motivational ... stuff.

Learn to master yourself-to understand both your fears and your desires. That's the key to magic. Then, no one shall have any hold over you. Remember... the magic (sic)... is a living thing, joined to whomever it touches and changed by them as well... You must come to know everything-even your darkest corners. Especially those...Everything has its price.

Please, I'm a transgender former boy-bander. You think I don't know how to defend myself?

Did you hear? You are free. Yessss. Choice. It is a fine thing. And I choose to take you back, Most High.

I took Advanced PowerPoint last semester. You guys are always misunderestimating me. I'm totally ready to handle the big stuff.