Quotes About Empowerment

I am the daughter of myself. I am born of my own dream. My dream sustains me.

With journaling, you see the patterns of your life; you claim—or reclaim—who you really are; you coach yourself into becoming the someone you imagined; you arrive at a sense of balance, of yourself, of wholeness. You can discover productive patterns and nonproductive patterns in your life, and you can choose to embrace the ones that move you forward.

Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!

Carpe Scrotum. Seize life by the testicles

Independent radical women often live lonely lives if they expect equality.

The teacher, as we know, can confer upon the pupil no powers which are not already latent within him, and his sole function is to assist in the awakening of slumbering faculties. But what he imparts out of his own experience is a pillar of strength for the one wishing to penetrate through darkness to light.

Man is already weak at the moment he searches for laws and rules according to which he shall think and act. Out of his own being the strong individual controls his way of thinking and doing.

Ultima said to take life's experiences and build strength from them, not weakness.

Take life's experiences and build strength from them, not weaknesses.

I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!

I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.

the wildest of all the wild animals was the Cat. He walked by himself

India is the one place in the world where a man can do as he pleases and nobody asks why;

I am not like Kagura! I'm not Naraku's tool! I am my own master!- Hakudoshi

it is when a white person resists the privilege of turning colorless that he frees himself, at least partially from the sickness of racialism.

Russell Simmons

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself! (from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

Today is a day of opportunity. Whatever our lot, today we have the greatest freedom possible — the freedom to choose our attitude. We make or break our today by the attitudes we choose. Whatever our situation, we can choose the climate of our heart. We can choose the garment of praise.

Fed on a media diet of really bad news, we live in a perpetual state of repressed panic. We are paralyzed by bad knowledge, from which the only escape is playing dumb. Ignorance becomes empowering because it enables people to live. Stupidity becomes proactive, a political statement. Our collective norm.

No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.

By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.

I don't give a shit about pretty, I informed her. I'm a superhero. Superheroes don't need pretty.

My anger frightened me more than my fear once had.