Quotes About Empowerment

If God worked through one woman to bring redemption, how is it that anyone can argue that God does not go on working through other women as well?

What happens to the spiritual life of a young girl who is made to understand, consciously or subconsciously, that she has no place in the spiritual domain except as a consumer of someone else's God?

Feminists are asking women and men not to buy into patriarchal systems that destroy them both. Feminism comes to bring both men and women to the fullness of life, the wholeness of soul, for which we were all made in the image and likeness of God.

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves--there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.

Dr. James Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women, published in 1765

Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. When you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole.

I figured out it was a social thing, what women were allowed to do. At a very young age, I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

People don't want to see women doing things they don't think women should do.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

Women are still second-class citizens.

Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.

We know from our own experience that miracle stories are not relegated solely to places of worship and are not the purview of a privileged, holy few. As spiritual beings, miracles are available to all of us.

A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.

Laughing made me feel safe. I was not going to be enveloped by the seediness that coated this world like dust.

I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful.

Meditation is a social and political act. Listening and not-doing are actions far more powerful than most of us have yet begun to realize.

Thus we determined 'tis not solely the condition, but whether or not one has a choice that determines its oppression.

Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will." – Zig-Ziglar

But all Austen's heroines are women who can change over time, to grow into what they're meant to be, and encourage their legion of readers to do the same.

Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push.

Tutum te robore reddam, which means I shall render you safe by my strength and she means every word of it.