Quotes about Empowerment

The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.

It does not matter where we come from or what we look like. If we recognize our abilities, are willing to learn and to use what we know in helping others, we will always have a place in the world.

The doors of the world are opened to people who can read.

I am convinced that knowledge is power - to overcome the past, to change our own situations, to fight new obstacles, to make better decisions.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

Waiting upon the Lord disarms the flesh. It allows you time to forget about yourself and see Jesus. It dismantles the powers of sin. It gives you Holy Spirit strength in your inner man, and the flesh begins to lose its grip on your life.

Our safety net must reflect our country's belief that - without exception - Americans are not liabilities to be written off but assets to be realized.

There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It's a reflection as opposed to an interpretation.

The world cannot evolve if girls refuse to become women.