Quotes about Empowerment

You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

Write off your hopes, and if your well-being matters to you, be your own savior while you can.

We're all human beings. Why hate anyone, flatter anyone, lord over anyone, or bow before anyone?

Nothing that goes on in anyone else's mind can harm you. Nor can the shifts and changes in the world around you. —Then where is harm to be found? In your capacity to see it.

Everyone gets one life. Yours is almost used up, and instead of treating yourself with respect, you have entrusted your own happiness to the souls of others.

i. Nothing can happen to me that isn't natural. ii. I can keep from doing anything that God and my own spirit don't approve. No one can force me to.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet

You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you

You can wipe your feet on me, twist my motives around all you like, you can dump millstones on my head and drown me in the river, but you can't get me out of the story. I'm the plot, babe, and don't ever forget it.

I don't want a man around, what use are they except for ten seconds' worth of half babies. A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women.

Breasts were one thing: they were in front, where you could have some control over them. Then there were bums, which were behind, and out of sight, and thus more lawless. Apart from loosely gathered skirts, nothing much could be done about them.