Quotes About Empowerment

There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.

If [the people of the world] are incapable, as some would have us believe, of self-government, then where among them do we find any who are capable of governing others?

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives

Use your imagination, I tell my students these days, or someone else is going to use it for you.

Aprendí que la mirada implacable con la que nos fileteamos y descuartizamos y despreciamos las mujeres es una mirada nuestra, una mirada interna, una exigencia loca con la que nosotras mismas nos esclavizamos

Cuando tu independencia te ha costado tantísimo como le costó a Marie, tiendes a convertirte en una gallina clueca que, sentada sobre el pequeño huevo de su libertad, arrea picotazos a cuantos se acercan.

Soy mujer y escribo. Soy plebeya y sé leer. Nací sierva y soy libre.

Las chicas de hoy tienen una Lady Gaga, que se viste de hombre, de mujer o de filete de ternera, según le viene en gana.

bastaría con ir soltando lastre. Con irse desnudando de las capas superfluas. Fuera la dictadura de #HacerLoQueSeDebe. Adiós a la #Ambición esclavizante y a la inseguridad torturadora (estas dos son pareja). Se acabó la #Culpabilidad y el ciego mandato de #HonrarALosPadres.

Porque hay una historia que no está en la historia y que solo se puede rescatar aguzando el oído y escuchando los susurros de las mujeres.

La escritura es un esqueleto exógeno que te permite continuar en pie ortopédicamente cuando sin ello serías una gelatina derrotada, una masa blanda aplastada en el suelo (...).

Las mujeres padecemos el maldito síndrome de la redención.

Me considero feminista o, por mejor decir, antisexista, porque la palabra feminista tiene un contenido semántico equívoco: parece oponerse al machismo y sugerir, por tanto, una supremacía de la mujer sobre el hombre, cuando el grueso de las corrientes feministas no sólo no aspiran a eso, sino que reivindican justamente lo contrario: que nadie resulte supeditado a nadie en razón de su sexo, que el hecho de haber nacido hombres o mujeres no nos encierre en un estereotipo

Porque cada cual es dueño de su destino... o al menos debe actuar como si lo fuera.

Eu son libre, nada pode conter a marcha dos meus pensamentos, e eles son a lei que rexe o meu destino

Now knowledge became the high road to control, and for women the pen had one major advantage over the sword; it fitted neatly into a female fist of any size, age, creed or country in the word.

The rights that women had won through the long century and more of struggle were essentially rights of men. Women had had no option but to batter their way into the age-old fortress of male privilege, and storm the citadel where masculine supremacy still held out.

Women have had to learn, often painfully and always with reluctance, that their freedom will not simply come of its own accord.

For women, the life choices (which by in large are made for them by their societies) come down to one of two evils - either the overloaded worker / wife / mother with her double burden, or the underoccupied housewife / drone with her half-life of deprivation and despair.

Women have always fought not just for survival, but for the meaning of the struggle - now, they are organizing, grouping and pushing forward, not merely for new definitions, but for the right to define.

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

She had never allowed herself to be bullied, and was not about to start.

Self-reliance has nothing to do with selfishness Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it's simply a well that doesn't run dry until the day you die and you don't need it any more.

Soy hija de mí misma. De mi sueño nací. Mi sueño me sostiene.