Quotes About Empowerment

She needs me for my strength, not my worry.

I may not have done it with grace, but I fought my way into something better and more enlightened... My lesson here was you do not give up. You hold yourself accountable. You stay grateful. You hold on tight to your friends.

In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

I don't want to be stinky poo-poo girl, I want to be happy flower child.

Empowered by her strong sense of mission, Cumming was undaunted by male opposition. "It is useless," she proclaimed, "to say the surgeons will not allow us; we have our rights, and if asserted properly will get them. This is our right and ours alone.

She had, she declared, "no patience with women whom I hear telling what wonders they would do if they were only men, when I see so much of their legitimate work left undone.... I could name many things they could do," she continued in a revealing concession to prevailing anxieties about respectability, "without ever going into a ward."47

A knowledge of reading, writing, and the elements of arithmetic, is convenient and important to the free laborer, who is the transactor of his own affairs, and the guardian of his own interests—but of what use would they be to the slave?

Females are human and rational beings. They may be found of better faculties and better qualified to exercise political privileges and to attain the distinctions of society than many men; yet who complains of the order of society by which they are excluded from them?

We all choose our own paths, Harry thought. We can't choose them for other people.

Take what makes you weak and turn it into something that makes you strong.

We walked together in the pages of those paperbacks and marched right out of the pages to walk – and eventually march – together in the streets.

Como feministas tenemos que reivindicar que tenemos derechos , no porque seamos madres sino porque somos personas.

Dónde empieza la libertad de las mujeres? Debería empezar con la exigencia de que nos liberemos del uso de la comparación de géneros como ideal de igualdad.

Power is meant to be shared with the goal of empowering others. Hoarded power weakens others and exalts oneself. Power, when grounded in biblical values, serves others by liberating them. It acknowledges that people bear the image of God and treats them in a way that will nurture the development of that image. In so doing, we honor their Creator.

Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.

Create your own happiness.

Your life is only yours once you're out of your parent's house.

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.

Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

No man is worth your tears, but once you find one that is, he won't make you cry.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.