Quotes Tagged "empowerment"

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength.

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.

I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

In youth, it was a way I had, To do my best to please. And change, with every passing lad To suit his theories. But now I know the things I know And do the things I do, And if you do not like me so, To hell, my love, with you.

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.