Quotes About Empowerment

She would always be short, but she wasn't helpless and she wasn't small. Not anymore.

You always believed we could survive in the outside world. I'm doing everything I can to give at least some of us a chance of not only surviving but truly living.

My name is Hope Wolfsong," she whispered. "I am not cs821. Not anymore. Never again.

She would have told her to respect her limitations as well as her abilities.

I refused to be less than what I am, and I made them deal with me on my own terms.

No one else has the right to decide if or when we cut our skin, but if we don't learn to interpret the warning signs that tell us if we really need to cut, we can become the enslavers as well as the enslaved. We can become our own enemy.

She's not a monkey fuck, and she is not prey," Simon said, his voice a low, threatening rumble. "She is Meg.

A woman with an education may be able to spend more time sitting in a chair instead of lying on her back. A sound advantage, I should think.

Whether you're beaten or pampered, fed the best foods or starved, kept in filth or kept clean, a cage is still a cage.

I write myself into existence by the stories that I tell about my life. I also write with my posture and with my manner of walking and speaking, and I write with words and with my actions.

Let Greeks be Greeks, and Women what they are.

Compare with me, ye women, if you can

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

If you would have your son to walk honorably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. Mahatma Gandhi

Girls are cruelest to themselves. Someone like Emily Brontë, who remained a girl all her life despite her body as a woman, had cruelty drifted up in all the cracks of her like spring snow.

It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.

Girls are cruellest to themselves.

Professionally, sexually. In those days, when a woman hit thirty she went home and shut the door. So it is to her great credit that my mother refused to lie down and die.

Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives.

Everyone has inside of her a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.