Empowerment Quotes

Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you too...

As women in today's society, we are encouraged to compare ourselves to other women when what we need...

I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations...

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ...

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau...

What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same the...

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I ...

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.""I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is...

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...

If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest ...

An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle ab...

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, un...

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Sup...

It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice… there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowe...

In short, superheroes balance the forces of light and dark, rage and serenity, and the sacred and th...

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You ...

In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "...

Once lay down the rule that the job comes first and you throw that job open to every individual, man...

In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...

What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Ha

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...

The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to ma...

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insistin...

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that th...

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his t...

But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that beli...

I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I jus...

Shooting Willoughby carrying Marianne up the path. ... Male strength -- the desire to be cradled aga...

I don't want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.

If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don’t, that’s wonderful, too. Shave your armp...

When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams, because they didn’t w...

Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who yo...

Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination ...

The wolf blood, Arya remembered now. I'll be as strong as Robb, I said I would. She took a deep brea...

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I've never let it keep me from doing a si...

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to th...

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself int...

Life is 10 percent what you make itand 90 percent how you take it.

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...

She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they sho...

Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circums...

What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be r...

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. N...

You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any oth...

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My cour...

Unchecked pride evolves into swagger, a hypnotizing mask of insecurity that can and does compromise ...

Women, for their part, are always complaining that we raise them only to be vain and coquettish, tha...

Why do you consult [women's] words when it is not their mouths that speak? Consult their eyes, their...

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.

Why aren’t you asking a hundred other guys why they don’t write strong women characters? I believe t...

By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His ...

Exhaustion was pressing upon and overpowering her. "Good-by--because I love you." He did not know; h...

Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act...

Cause' baby you're a firework!

If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light.

I'm single because I was born that way.

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant bru...

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant bru...

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.

A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part t...

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and ther...

I earnestly wish to point out in what true dignity and human happiness consists. I wish to persuade ...

It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity - a...

It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men.

[I]f we revert to history, we shall find that the women who have distinguished themselves have neith...

I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of ...

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

UN studies conducted in more than forty developing countries show that the birth rate falls as women...

So let us be clear about this up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to eman...

The tide of history is turning women from beasts of burden and sexual playthings into full-fledged h...

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope ...

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

P26 - Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free...

The teacher is of course an artist, but being an artist does not mean that he or she can make the pr...

An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-s...

Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.

....harmony that would fittingly imitate the utterances and accents of a brave man who is engaged in...

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

We women are weak," replied Bimala. "So I suppose we must join in the conspiracy of the weak.""Women...

My husband was very eager to take me out of purdah. One day I said to him, "What do I want with the ...

Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, ...

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call m...

While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,The fate of empires and the fall of kings;While quacks ...

Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you b...

Now, it’s undeniably true that male writers (including yours truly) are generally and commercially a...

Thank you, Men, for the railroads. Thank you, Men, for inventing the automobile and killing the red ...

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

It occurred to them for the first time in their lives that what's divine can come in dark skin.

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking t...

You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.