Quotes About Empowerment

More curiously, why have women, suffering greater powerlessness and having greater cause for despair than the most powerless of men, avoided resorting to it on our own behalf?

Wherever she exists, she labors: her work as homemaker or mother, as prostitute or nun, is erased because it's considered natural; her work in farm, factory, or office is marginalized because it's considered unskilled, transient, or migratory.

Bound, hobbled, silenced, battered, raped raw, starved, exhibited, bought and sold and traded, pedestaled or guttered, derided, trivialized, dismissed, erased - something there is in her that refuses it. Something there is in her that knows that she - in her poverty of flesh, knowledge, means, at times even spirit - has never lost that self.

Not until she, and you, and I, fully comprehend the enormity - that all issues are women's issues to be defined in women's ways and confronted in women's ways - can any of us break free and refuse to settle for rebellion within his deadly context.

The key is in learning how to live a healthy, satisfying, and serene life without being dependent on another person for happiness.

it is this very practice of acceptance that allows another to change if he chooses to do so.

Pero cuando usted trata de solucionarle sus problemas, él queda liberado de su propia responsabilidad por su propia vida. Entonces usted queda a cargo del bienestar de él, y cuando sus esfuerzos fallan, él la culpará a usted.

Cuando sucede algo emocionalmente doloroso y nos decimos que la culpa es nuestra, en realidad estamos diciendo que tenemos control sobre ello: si nosotros cambiamos, el dolor desaparecerá.

Changing my body has given me the ability to do all these amazing things that I never in a million years imagined I could do.

It's sad that women characters have lost so much ground in popular movies. Didn't 'Thelma and Louise' prove that women want to see women doing things on film? Thelma and Louise were in a classic car they were being chased by cops they shot up a truck - and women loved it.

Make your mess your message," Momma liked to say. And I did.

Make your mess your message.

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make. it will not only improve your life, it will improve the lives of all those around you.

But most important, she had broken through that invisible wall of terror that surrounded her, and lived to tell the tale.

She didn't want pity. Just to love a man and have a man love her. This was nothing to apologize for or feel weak or needy about. It just was.

Big people don't make people feel small.

Your hands itch to pull out invasive species and replant the native flowers. Your finger trembles with a wish to detonate the explosion of an obsolete dam that would restore a salmon run. These are antidotes to the poison of despair.

The most important thing each of us can know is our unique gift and how to use it in the world

Both were women with feet planted deep in the earth, who took pride in a back strong enough to carry a load for others.

Images of Skywoman speak not just of where we came from, but also of how we can go forward.

in order for the whole to flourish, each of us has to be strong in who we are and carry our gifts with conviction, so they can be shared with others.

a back strong enough to carry a load for others.

Girls had to believe in anything but their own power, because if girls knew what they could do, imagine what they might.