Quotes about Empowerment

It's all about being in control of myself as an older woman who lives alone, and it's all about how I am going to do what I have to do to be as strong as I can be and be confident that I can do what I need to do as an older person.

My real soul...? It's real only when it's independent...

I think that your sister is awful. I think it's disgusting-a woman acting like a grease-monkey and posing around like a big executive. It's so unfeminine. Who does she think she is, anyway?

What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree, and to obey?

Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority.

You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.

At the end of the day, the circumstances of your life-- what you look like,where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home--none of that is an excuse... where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No ones written your destiny for you, because here in America, you write you own destiny.You make your own future.

You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want. It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!

And so the moment we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold into a library, we've changed their lives forever, and for the better. This is an enormous force for good.

A change happens because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.