Quotes About Empowerment

We must save the world, one child at a time.

The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class -- it is the cause of humankind, the very birthright of humanity.

Only the Black woman can say when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.

But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith.

women and men from around the world have clamored to be included in the status once given to Man.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough ' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

I realized that, while I would never be my mother nor have her life, the lesson she had left me was that it was possible to love and care for a man and still have at your core a strength so great that you never even needed to put it on display.

If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.

For my mother, who gave so much, and climbed a mountain every day.

Better to die on your feet than live forever on your knees was the inscription on the base.

Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won't accept.

Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how to use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won't accept.

So, fuck you, fifty, I own you. You're my bitch.

Suffrage didn't mean equal opportunity.

I want to leave a better timeline behind, not just an open timeline but one where people who are not men can control the means of reproduction.

Back then, she was certain she could change the world just by making commits to a text file repository,

Is that how humans are raised? Autonomous?

I once watched in awe as a New York City tenant lawyer exclaimed, "Good!" when she was shown statistics about declining white male incomes.

I offer the yellow woman here not as the real but rather as a conceptual category and a critical agent,

I identified with both women. But Emma had a stronger message for the women I want to speak to now women who work. I wanted to tell them that choosing to work doesn't make them oddballs and isn't antisocial.

I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

And in the act of making things, just by living their daily lives, they also make history. Knitting is clothing made in spare moments, or round the fire, whenever women gathered together... It's something to celebrate-clothes made in love and service, something women have always done.

I lost nothing I regret losing," Witch said softly. "I am what I want to be.