Quotes about Empowerment

Some people grow weak when they are victimized, others grow stronger, and still others combine those two attributes to become dangerous, even if the person in question is a girl who has recently turned twelve.

Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.

The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this, she said: A girl is nothing to herself; only to her husband can she become something. What can she become? I asked. Why, she said, the mother of his children. But I am not the mother of anybody's children, I said, and I am something.

First time I think about the world. What the world got to do with anything, I think. Then I see myself sitting there quilting tween Shug Avery and Mr ——. Us three set together gainst Tobias and his fly speck box of chocolate. For the first time in my life, I feel just right.

A little love, a little buckshot, that's how I'd say handle yourself.

She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that no is a word the world never learned to say to her.

You know Shug will fight, he say. Just like Sofia. She bound to live her life and be herself no matter what.

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.

continuing to love with depth and tenderness honors revolution at its highest success.

The world is changing, I said. It is no longer a world just for boys and men.

The little I knew about my own self wouldn't have filled a thimble!... But one thing I do thank her for, for teaching me to learn for myself, by reading and studying and writing a clear hand. And for keeping alive in me somehow the desire to know.

RESISTANCE IS THE SECRET OF JOY! it says in huge block letters.