Quotes About Empowerment

I don't want to have these burdens. But I can't bear to turn them over to anyone else, either. Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.

She had called herself a whore. That was a man's word, a shame-word flung at a woman. But she did not seem ashamed. She wielded the word like a sword, slicing away all his preconceptions of who she was. She had earned her living by her sex, and she did not seem to regret it.

Take all self-determination from a man's life, and all that is left for him to do is complain.

Não tem de ser assim tão ruim - disse Breu calmamente. - A maior parte das nossas prisões é criada por nós mesmos. Um homem também faz a própria liberdade.

Even if you do only a little damage, they will learn that touching you has a price. Some will not be willing to pay it. I

Wait for you? Not likely! I've always had to run ahead of you and show you the way.

Attitude and bearing. Believe you are beautiful, and so will everyone else

When had it become so ingrained in her to apologize whenever she wanted something for herself?

There was, she suddenly saw, many ways to be raped.

No man becomes a pirate because he wants to be ruled by another.

No. Not tonight. Not by impulse, not without thought, No. It did not matter what others did. She had to think for herself about such things.

Deja de definirte por lo que no puedes hacer. ¿Por qué no piensas en lo que no has perdido?

To finally confront the worst there is, to look it squarely in the face and say, "I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still I live. And I will go on living.

And somehow by not speaking out on his own behalf, he made it impossible for anyone else to object.

Men it is who think they can rule others' lives, but have no bonds to them. Do you think that to bond or not to bond is for you alone to decide? My heart is my own. I give it where I will. I will not give it to one who thrusts me aside.

She felt silence growing in her. Sometimes it reminded her of a fast-growing ivy; silence covered her and cloaked her, and she suspected that one day she would smother in the silences Hest could create. It was an effort to break through that strangling quiet, but she did it.

She could change. She wasn't chained to her past. She could become someone who wasn't merely a product of what others had done to her. It wasn't too late.

Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too

I know you think it slatternly, the way I am with men. But once you have been forced, it is … different. Ever after. I say to myself, well, I know that it can happen to me at any time. So this way, at least I decide with whom and when. There will never be children for me, and hence there will never be a permanent man. So why should not I take my pick of what I can have?

She is, Althea thought uneasily, what I pretend to be: a woman who does not let her sex deter her from living as she pleases. It wasn't fair. Jek had grown up in the Six Duchies, and claimed this equality as her birthright. Consequently, men usually ceded it to her.

Most of being a woman hurts.

Be your blood, boy, and ignore what anyone else thinks of you.

To confront finally the worst there is, to look it squarely in the face and say, 'I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still, I live. And I will go on living.

I can see that this hurts you. You should fix it. You can't make it unhappen, but you don't have to carry around what they did to you. Don't give them that power over you.