Quotes about Empowerment
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be.
— Jimmy Johnson
I'm glad to take on the role of a domestic because many of your black leaders, your educators, your professionals came from domestic parents who made sacrifices to see that their children didn't go through what they did.
— Esther Rolle
I'm a proud woman. I'm a proud man. I'm a proud whatever people think I am.
— Rain Dove
History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.
— Kamala Harris
Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Either you think - or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The Holy Spirit, so central to New Testament writings as diverse as those of Paul, John, and the author of Acts, inhabits the message and empowers the speaker, so that the proclamation of God's act in Christ is the new occasion of creation, issuing from the Trinitarian power of the originating Word itself.
— Fleming Rutledge
In my 20s, I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.
— Maxine Peake
Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.
— Joyce Meyer
At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.
— Isabel Allende
Sometimes it feels like the feminist movement never happened.
— Maxine Peake