Quotes About Empowerment

When things turn out as you expect more often than not, do you feel more in control of your destiny? Do you take more responsibility for your life? If that's the case, why do Americans always behave as if they're victims?

If no one responds to your call, then go your own way alone.

Love does not claim possession but gives freedom.

Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield,But to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved,But for the patience to win my freedom.

The winds of grace are blowing all the time, but it is you that must raise your sails.

The winds of grace are always blowing, but it is you that must raise your sails.

Sen beni her zaman reddedip, zay?f, ÅŸüpheli arzular?n tehlikesinden kurtararak günden güne senin taraf?ndan kabul edilmeye lay?k bir hale getiriyorsun.

Our sole task now is to express unhesitating, undoubted, complete respect for everything swadeshi, to generate the same respect in the hearts of the unpatriotic. Ashamed of our country for so long, we have weakened ourselves with the poison of slavery. If each of us opposes this by personal example, we can claim a space for future work.

My husband was very eager to take me out of purdah. One day I said to him, "What do I want with the outside world?" "The outside world may want you," he replied.

I want to protect each person's boundaries. Once you begin to yield the slightest ground on some pretext, you're ultimately left with nothing.

Don't quote the shastras to defend your way of honouring the female sex! That is not honour.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

she had control of her emotions, and no matter what he said or did to her, she chose whether or not she would be happy.

Self-service' puts all classes on the same shopping level, doing the work for themselves; the

You create what you speak. So, speak a better world. Speak a happier and more loving life. Speak your despair and let it lead you back to your truth.

The one thing you can say about people for sure, is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.

Might it be true that half of freedom is the willingness to take it when it's offered?

You have to forget about the boys,' he said. 'For a while at least... They'll devour you... They can't help it. It's in their nature. They'll take it all until there's nothing left.

loss of control held new possibilities for me, as though it were itself a kind of freedom.

The one thing you can say about people for sure,' Ryan said, 'is that they'll only free themselves if freedom is in their own interest.

It may be the case, she said, that it is only when it is too late to escape that we see we were free all along.

a saddening thought, she said, that when a group of women get together, far from advancing the cause of femininity, they end up pathologising it.

She was, I saw, goading herself on: she wanted to Traverse boundaries, as though to prove to herself that she was free.

Abraçou o conceito inteiro quase da noite para o dia: podia decidir como queria ser e então sê-lo. Não existia predestinação alguma; agora entendia que aquela noção de si mesmo como uma sina e uma maldição que havia pairado como uma mortalha sobre toda a sua vida podia ficar para trás.