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Empowerment Quotes
"I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility with no history to guide them and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words."
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"I would give Alex back control so she could protect herself instead of making the decision for her."
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"If you intend to change, decide what you want and live your life accordingly."
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"I realized that the most empowering important thing was actually simply taking care of myself."
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"No matter how dysfunctional your background, how broke or broken you are, where you are today, or what anyone else says, YOU MATTER, and your life matters!"
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"The mind is a god, it creates its own reality."
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"Absolutely devout in her complete care of my body, she had only taught me to be weak and voiceless. But I had unlearned that lesson. Our enmeshment no longer felt to me like proof of love. I was no longer willing to permit this silencing. Helplessness didn't have to be my identity, I wasn't condemned to it. I was willing-able-to change. Our enmeshment had been enabled by my belief that I needed her to help me, to take care of things for me-and to save me-but, back in the home where I'd learned this helplessness, I found I no longer felt that I was trapped in it."
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"If you are waiting to gain power to do something, then there is no difference between you and an unborn child."
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"If you're not angry, you're either a stone, or you're too sick to be angry. You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger, yes. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it."
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"Never allow anyone to hold the key to your happiness, key to your heart, or key to your dreams. Be in control of your life and build your hopes on things eternal. No one should have the power to manipulate your life, optimism, love, or success."
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"Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it."
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"That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility."
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"Some women become reckless with the fire, some find every way to put it out and rise above with the ashes left behind."
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"Ladies, most of you have no idea how beautiful you are. Don't let mean words from an insecure soul blind you from the truth of your beauty. You are beautiful by design... just the way you are."
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"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."
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"You don't have to reach for the stars if you are already shining like one."
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"I help those who can help themselves."
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"We feel good when we hear about how powerful we are because we are pure power."
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"There are so many ways to change the world, and every single one starts with you."
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"Those who doubt themselves will doubt you. Those who limit themselves will try to limit you. Do not fight them. Smile, go your own way, and trust that your example is enough."
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"We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."
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"You might say "no, you will never do that, that's not you, not who I know, not who I thought you were, and I will say "watch me"."
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"But I also know that in order to continue to grow and challenge myself, I have to believe in my own abilities. I still face situations that I fear are beyond my capabilities. I still have days when I feel like a fraud. And I still sometimes find myself spoken over and discounted while men sitting next to me are not. But now I know how to take a deep breath and keep my hand up. I have learned to sit at the table."
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"Think about it this way: While being married is about becoming the WIFE you are meant to be, being single allows you to focus on becoming the WOMAN you were born to be."
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"Stars don't beg the sky to shine."
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"No one will come and save you. No one will come riding on a white horse and take all your worries away. You have to save yourself, little by little, day by day. Build yourself a home. Take care of your body. Find something to work on. Something that makes you excited, something you want to learn. Get yourself some books and learn them by heart. Get to know the author, where he grew up, what books he read himself. Take yourself out for dinner. Dress up for no one but you and simply feel nice. it's a lovely feeling, to feel pretty. You don't need anyone to confirm it."
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"Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject - and when he spoke again, it was something totally different."
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"It occurred to me that as a man I could do anything, everything I wanted."
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"You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself."
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"Be a woman of confidence and self-respect, give a man a reason worth fighting for."
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"Proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone."
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"Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue."
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"Don't wait for others to celebrate you, learn to do it yourself."
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"Bricks on your back are easier to carry than pebbles on your soul."
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"When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away."
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"If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency."
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"The Holy Spirit is given to us in order for us to be like fire, when we speak in tongues."
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"A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy, a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim."
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"Use fear to become braver, pain to become stronger, trials to become wiser, and misfortune to become better."
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"I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to."
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"Aren't you tired of shutting up? Aren't you sick of choking down your truth?Aren't you over nodding yes when you mean no?Then stop-shutting and choking and nodding.You have not come this far to stay silent.You have not endured so much to give up now.You have not awakened just to go back to sleep.Right now is the time to announce yourself. Who are you? What do we need to know?Only you make claim to who you are.Only you decide what's right, and not, for you.Only you choose how you want to shine.You-only you-get to create your singular life."
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"The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together."
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"If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian...I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too."
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"It's the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I'm a woman Phenomenally."
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"I find pain, rather beautiful. It has a chaotic way of shaking up Everything we once ignored, To empower us to move past Anything that doesn't serve the best of us anymore."
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"God wants to advise us and stretch out His Almighty hand of help towards us."
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"Whatever my powers--feminine or the contrary--God had given them, and I felt resolute to be ashamed of no faculty of his bestowal."
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"He will be sorry for the way he treated you, Don't you worry about that. Focus on your growth and watch his eyes gaze in sorrow as he knows, he was the bastard that made you strong."
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"The essence of one life is empowering another life, and so your passion has to be linked to the liberation of other people's happiness."
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