Empowerment

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

We all make our limits, and we set them further out than we have any right.

 

I believe in one thing only, the power of the human will.

Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

A WOMAN HAS TO LIVE HER LIFE, OR LIVE TO REPENT NOT HAVING LIVED IT.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

 

The recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.

The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is.

I’m pore, I’m black, I may be ugly and can’t cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I’m here.

I don’t adopt any one’s ideas; I have my own.

My soul an’t yours, Mas’r! You haven’t boughtit,—ye can’t buy it! It’s been bought and paid for, by one that is able to keep it.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

[ Responding to the statement, “Lucky fellow Rutherford, always on the crest of the wave” :] Well, I made the wave, didn’t I?

The vote, I thought, means nothing to women, we should be armed.

There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he functions as a Milton.

Because of their age-long training in human relations—for that is what feminine intuition really is—women have a special contribution to make to any group enterprise, and I feel it is up to them to contribute the kinds of awareness that relatively few men . . . have incorporated through their education.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery.

All history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.