Quotes about Empowerment
It was then that I understood that the days of Colonel Garcia and all those like him are numbered, because they have not been able to destroy the spirit of these women.
— Isabel Allende
The reality is that everyone is responsible for their own life. We're dealt certain cards at birth, and we play our hand; some of us lose, but others may play skillfully from the same bad hand and triumph.
— Isabel Allende
Dance. Dance, Zarité. The slave who dances is free while he is dancing.' He told me. I have always danced.
— Isabel Allende
Exert some independence; you're not a little girl. You can't let anyone else decide things for you. You have to take care of yourself in this world," she said.
— Isabel Allende
I do not fear my vulnerability because I no longer confuse it with weakness.
— Isabel Allende
At State Bank, all decisions are collective decisions. I have created the comfort zone.
— Arundhati Bhattacharya
Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Men habitually use only a small part of the powers which they possess and which they might use under appropriate circumstances.
— William James
A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.
— Thomas Merton
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
— Epictetus
Keep trying. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.
— Audrey Hepburn