Quotes About Empowerment

I agree. I have a therapist now, one with whom I'm actually honest, and we've been over the events of my life again and again—rehashing without judgment the things I've done, the things that have been done to me, and how I ultimately saved myself.

People like this guy—they count on you shrinking into the shadows, letting your shame keep you silent. That's how they get away with it again and again.

I'm not old, but I've misused my body and let others misuse it, and I think it shows.

It's such a female thing, to reflexively apologize for everything, for your very existence it sometimes seems.

You can choose and create the life you want. You are the author of your reality.

Pull yourself together, Selena, she chided. Fix this. End this. Write a better headline.

We don't always choose what happens to us. But we choose what we do with it.

He's almost an adult. We have to save ourselves sometimes, Maggie. You should know that.

Her mother always said that when you were sad or worried or angry, that you had to do something. Anything. Go for a walk. Make cookies. Draw a picture. Clean your room. Never just lie there and feel sad or mad, because those feelings become like weights, holding you down, and they only get heavier, and you only get less likely to move them.

Point! -Alicia

Lisi Harrison

Miniatures made her feel like she was larger than life, like the world was in the palm of her hand.

A girl should want to look good for herself, not for boys.

When I hear women rail that the Bible is misogynistic, I wonder if we're reading the same book. God loves women, redeems women, empowers women--then and now. On the day we call Christmas, He could have simply arrived on earth, yet He chose to enter through a virgin's womb. On the day we call Easter, He could have appeared first to His beloved disciple, John, yet He chose as His first witness a woman set free from seven demons.

No matter what has happened, you're not a pig-boy; you're an Assistant Pig Keeper!

I have studied the race of men, Medwyn continued. I have seen that alone you stand as weak reeds by a lake. You must learn to help yourselves, that is true; but you must also learn to help one another.

Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none.

We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.

Henry glared at Anastasia. 'You quit planning on a rich husband, Anastasia. You're gonna get rich on your own. You and me, if we want husbands, fine. But we won't need them. Like our mothers. My mom could do just fine being a waitress, and your mom could do just fine being an artist. They got husbands 'cos they want them. That Bambie, now maybe she'll need a husband. But not you and me. Got it?

It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears.

You have the colors," The Giver told him. "And you have the courage. I will help you to have the strength.

Take your pride in your pain. You are stronger than those who have none.

Fear dims when you learn things

Enorgullécete de tu dolor –le decía siempre su madre–. Eres más fuerte que aquellos que no sienten ninguno.