Quotes About Empowerment

You are who you are, Benny Oh. Just don't let anyone tell you that's a problem.

root sense, ignorance is an act of will, a choice that one makes over and over again, especially when information overwhelms and knowledge has become synonymous with impotence.

the newly empowered advertising industry used its forked tongue to convert citizens into consumers. But

That's the thing about Jiko, one of her superpowers, is that just by being in the same room with you, she can make you feel okay about yourself.

You are who you are Benny Oh. Just don't let anyone tell you that's a problem.

Nothing feels as good as building a team and empowering people, watching them grow and thrive.

Still, if I'm being honest, I have to admit that working women everywhere accepted casual misogyny. We were so accustomed to taking what men dished out that we thought it was up to us to find ways to deflect the advances of bosses and co-workers without hurting their feelings. As

In the end you are the only one who can make yourself happy, More important, Mom showed me that it is never too late to find out how to do it.

To be able to choose your own pain - it's a little scary, she thought, but it's wonderful, too.

Poder elegir tu propio dolor; da un poco de miedo, pensó, pero también es maravilloso.

Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless.

Genius was being born in her, filling the empty spaces in her bed, her heart, her womb. She needed no-one but herself.

Enough of invisibility, silence, timidity, defensiveness, guilt! An invisible, silenced man was an empty space into which others could pour their prejudices, their agendas, their wrath. The fight against fanaticism needed visible faces, audible voices. He would be quiet no longer. He would try to become a loud and visible man.

We are other than what we would have been if we had crossed the oceans, if or mothers and fathers had not crossed the skies in search of work and dignity and a better life for their children. We have been made again: but I say that we shall also be the ones to remake this society, to shape it from the bottom to the top.

We underestimate our fellow humans because we underestimate ourselves. They - we - are capable of being much more than we seem

Anything you want to be, you can be: You can be just what-all you want.

The limitations we place upon the world are imposed by ourselves rather than the world.

Eventually, the photographer had tried to catch her unawares, but she seized his camera and broke it over his skull. Fortunately, he lived; but there are no photographs of my grandmother anywhere on the earth. She was not one to be trapped in anyone's little black box. It was enough for her that she must live in unveiled, barefaced shamelessness—there was no question of allowing the fact to be recorded.

It was always women who did the choosing, and men's place was to be grateful if they were lucky enough to be the chosen ones.

It is better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a sheep.

But it is your mind, rather than circumstances themselves, that determines the quality of your life.

Any culture that raises men and boys to kill unlucky girls, rather than comfort them, is a culture that has managed to retard the growth of love. Such

I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.