empowerment

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09887f1	I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.	empowerment flaws freedom gender identity image independence integrity realism self-awareness self-determination women	Charlotte Brontë
3459977	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.	double-standards empowerment equality feminism flattery gender hypocrisy independence men misogyny rationality reason self-determination social-norms stereotypes strength women women-s-rights	Jane Austen
13dd10a	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.	dignity elizabeth-bennet empowerment fear independence intimidation self-determination strength stubbornness women	Jane Austen
fec94b8	care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.	defiance empowerment independence individuality self-assurance self-awareness self-containment self-determination self-esteem self-reliance self-respect self-sufficiency self-trust solitude	Charlotte Brontë
99d232c	You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.	empowerment flying freedom unburdening weight	Toni Morrison
78f9e34	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.	empowerment equality experience freedom gender independence men reason self-determination submission superiority women women-s-rights	Charlotte Brontë
b653c92	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.	change control empowerment inspirational letting-go life motivational	Steve Maraboli
c8e2f8b	Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.	empowerment happiness inspirational life-lessons motivational problems	Steve Maraboli
6ac92a7	Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.	believe believe-in-yourself confidence empowerment inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes limitations limits living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking potential spiritual-growth spirituality talents	Roy T. Bennett
5c65487	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.	empowerment flaws freedom gender ideal-woman identity image independence integrity love men realism romance self-awareness self-determination women	Charlotte Brontë
d87db97	As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.	dignity double-standards empowerment feminism gender hypocrisy intelligence men misogyny self-determination social-norms stereotypes thought women	Virginia Woolf
e7de926	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.	change character empowerment love men nature pleasing self-discovery self-esteem self-respect truthfulness wisdom women youth	Dorothy Parker
6c767ff	A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.	dignity double-standards empowerment equality feminism gender hypocrisy judgment men misogyny poetry respect women writing	Virginia Woolf
4f5d4ab	To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?	empowerment equality feminist gandhi gender inspirational men strength women	Mahatma Gandhi
7f0ccfd	What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.	courage destiny empowerment responsibility self-control self-improvement	Anais Nin
7ecaca1	The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.	empowerment feminism gender men misogyny women	Virginia Woolf
70ec247	If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.	empowerment life relationships subtlety	Sue Monk Kidd
33bdd99	I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.	courtship empowerment freedom happiness husbands independence love marriage self-determination singles wooing	William Shakespeare
a83e5ef	Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!	action change destiny empowerment inspirational life mistakes motivational success	Steve Maraboli
4a3abf0	If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.	empowerment equality gender instruction jobs men skills women work	Plato
c0cd1f7	"I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself."	empowerment flaws freedom gender ideal-woman identity image independence integrity realism self-awareness self-determination women	Charlotte Brontë
084df20	People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop.	action change determination empowerment inspirational life motivational success	Steve Maraboli
5737023	If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.	double-standards empowerment expectations false-belief feminism gender hypocrisy illusions misconceptions misogyny stereotypes women	Charlotte Brontë
e49761b	My name is Celaena Sardothien," she whispered, "and I will not be afraid.	celaena-sardothien empowerment fantasy-young-adult fierce inspirational motto throne-of-glass	Sarah J. Maas
220baa2	I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.	distress empowerment get-over-it james-patterson maximum-ride pretense trouble	James Patterson
1c56b4d	"My name is Celaena Sardothien," she whispered, "and I will not be afraid."	empowerment fantasy-young-adult fierce inspirational motto throne-of-glass	Sarah J. Maas
111fa2e	When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.	dignity empowerment feminism gender history misogyny persecution social-norms suppression witches women women-writers writing	Virginia Woolf
fa3e4b2	I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.	empowerment enterprise	Charlotte Brontë
eb8cfe2	Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.	dignity double-standards empowerment feminism gender hypocrisy inequality misogyny morality protectiveness social-norms stereotypes womanhood women	Virginia Woolf
ac6243f	Women are never so strong as after their defeat.	empowerment perseverance strength women	Alexandre Dumas
1f88d6b	Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.	courage creative-process empowerment experience guenter-grass memory record-of-life strength writing	Salman Rushdie
01479a6	Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.	empowerment good-behaviour ladies obedience rebellion rule-breaking rules trouble wellesley-college-commencement women	Nora Ephron
b557b1b	Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.	blessings drama empowerment gratitude inspirational life motivational purpose simplify	Steve Maraboli
acee414	Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.	anchoring attachment belonging country empowerment home homelessness independence individuality inspirational nationality roots self-assurance self-awareness self-containment self-determination self-esteem self-reliance self-respect self-sufficiency self-trust	Hugo Hamilton
2c03670	"You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)"	behaviour declaration empowerment gentlemanlike gentlemen humiliation love marriage-proposal men mr-darcy pride proposal propriety refusal rejection scorn self-determination women	Jane Austen
a378eef	Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself	abilities ability believe believe-in-yourself confidence dream dreams empowerment hope inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-quotes limitations limits living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking potential self-doubt spiritual-growth spirituality	Roy T. Bennett
9d20cf3	How would your life be different if...You didn't allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day...You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self.	action change destiny empowerment history inspirational life motivational opportunity	Steve Maraboli
2f2b7bf	Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.	artists arts careers creativity empowerment encroachment gender liberation occupation restrictions skills women women-writers	Virginia Woolf
d6b8f43	LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.	empowerment equality freedom happiness husbands independence marriage matrimony men self-determination singles	William Shakespeare
cec2b1c	Everything is within your power	change change-life change-quotes change-the-world change-your-life change-your-mind empowered empowerment encourae-yourself encourage-yourself encouragement encouragement-and-attitude encouragement-quotes encouraging encouraging-quotes innate-wisdom inner-strength inspirational inspiring inspiring-quote inspiring-quotes law-of-attraction motivating motivational motivational-quotes personal-development positive positive-quote positive-thinking positivity power power-of-the-subconscious-mind power-of-thoughts power-of-will power-of-women powerful powerful-quotes powerful-women powerful-words self-empowered self-empowerment self-healing self-help self-help-inspiration self-help-motivator self-help-quote self-help-quotes self-improvement spiritual spiritual-quote spiritual-wisdom strength strength-of-mind strength-of-spirit strong strong-will strong-willed strong-woman strong-women subconscious uplifting	Janice Trachtman
c383efa	LEONATO Well, then, go you into hell? BEATRICE No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.	empowerment freedom happiness heaven husbands independence marriage matrimony self-determination singles	William Shakespeare
3b5cdcb	I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- . Know this at last.	conscience courtship dignity empowerment feminism gender independence integrity love marriage matrimony self-determination social-norms women wooing	Charlotte Brontë
e346027	"An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation and immense vistas. Not very far away are Death Valley, and Yosemite, and Sequoia Forest with its giant trees which were growing long before the Parthenon was built; they are the oldest living things in the world. One should visit such places often, and be conscious, in the midst of the city, of their surrounding presence. For this is the real nature of California and the secret of its fascination; this untamed, undomesticated, aloof, prehistoric landscape which relentlessly reminds the traveller of his human condition and the circumstances of his tenure upon the earth. "You are perfectly welcome," it tells him, "during your short visit. Everything is at your disposal. Only, I must warn you, if things go wrong, don't blame me. I accept no responsibility. I am not part of your neurosis. Don't cry to me for safety. There is no home here. There is no security in your mansions or your fortresses, your family vaults or your banks or your double beds. Understand this fact, and you will be free. Accept it, and you will be happy."	desert empowerment environment freedom happiness liberation los-angeles mountains nature risk risk-taking self-responsibility wildness	Christopher Isherwood
2428b8f	"No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And ask in what sense that young man is worthy of ?"	courtship dignity empowerment equality feminism gender independence inferiority integrity marriage marriage-proposal matrimony men self-awareness self-determination social-norms suitability women wooing worthiness	Charlotte Brontë
6866128	An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls -- even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls -- without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.	double-standards empowerment inequality prison women women-s-liberation women-s-rights	Pearl S. Buck
ae69dcc	You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.	critical-thinking defiance dissent empowerment freedom social-order	Naomi Wolf
150c93d	In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.	blog-quotes celebrities coaching empowerment famous-authors famous-poets grace gratitude hope inspiration motivation oprah-winfrey personal-growth philanthropy positive-motivation quotes-by-aberjhani rare-personalities spirituality television world-suicide-prevention-day	Aberjhani
dccf0d0	Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.	courtship dignity empowerment happiness husbands independence love marriage marriage-proposal matrimony pleasure self-determination wooing	William Shakespeare
c89acc1	What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.	courtship discord disharmony empowerment gender inequality irony love marriage matrimony sarcasm storytelling subjection women	Charlotte Brontë
af1d004	Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.	dignity double-standards empowerment encroachment feminism gender hypocrisy liberty misogyny morality self-determination sexuality social-norms suppression women	Virginia Woolf
da16970	One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive social impact on the world, but believes that the best way of doing it is, as the saying goes, not by giving poor people a fish and feeding them for a day, but by teaching them to fish, in hopes of feeding them for a lifetime. I have come to know several social entrepreneurs in recent years, and most combine a business school brain with a social worker's heart. The triple convergence and the flattening of the world have been a godsend for them. Those who get it and are adapting to it have begun launching some very innovative projects.	empowerment social-entrepreneurship	Thomas L. Friedman
b534708	It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice... there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others--especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth!	antiracism black-prophetic-fire democracy economic-disparity empowerment humanity impoverishment inspiration joy political-motivation political-movements poor-people servant-leadership social-injustice social-justice social-movements	Cornel West
d0ecf42	I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in 's of the poet. She died young--alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh.	dignity dreams empowerment equality feminism fiction gender opportunities poetry self-determination social-norms women women-writers	Virginia Woolf
cf3ccd9	If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.	creative-process determination devotion empowerment energy talent writing	Honoré de Balzac
4dbd6dc	If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...	blessings empowerment freedom happiness husbands independence marriage matrimony self-determination singles	William Shakespeare
f2e0593	[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.	empowerment feminism gender history independence inequality marriage married-life matrimony men misogyny perception self-abnegation self-determination social-norms subjugation wedlock women women-s-rights	Antonia Fraser
6bea34d	Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.	addiction alcohol-addiction alcoholics-anonymous alcoholism chris-prentiss drug-abuse drug-addiction empowerment	Chris Prentiss
b29ed5e	A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated -- and turned out to grass.	education empowerment inequality men women women-s-liberation women-s-rights	Pearl S. Buck
17db5f1	"Always know there are friends somewhere rooting for you. There are people you don't know, always praying for you and lifting you before God. - Jenee, from "To the Survivors"."	empowerment god healing hope rape recovery sexual-assault sexual-violence shame spirituality suxual-abuse	Robert Uttaro
69fcb91	It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the way God had arranged Creation, sanctified in the words of the Apostle. ... Under the common law of England at the accession of King James I, no female had any rights at all (if some were allowed by custom). As an unmarried woman her rights were swallowed up in her father's, and she was his to dispose of in marriage at will. Once she was married her property became absolutely that of her husband. What of those who did not marry? Common law met that problem blandly by not recognizing it. In the words of [the leading 17th century compendium on women's legal status]: 'All of them are understood either married or to be married.' In 1603 England, in short, still lived in a world governed by feudal law, where a wife passed from the guardianship of her father to her husband; her husband also stood in relation to her as a feudal lord.	common-law empowerment fathers feminism feudalism gender guardianship history husbands independence inequality marriage married-life matrimony men misogyny property self-determination social-norms subjugation wedlock women women-s-rights	Antonia Fraser
d802bdc	"Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and that Eve was their mother: from her sprang Saturn, Hyperion, Oceanus; she bore Prometheus" -- "Pagan that you are! what does that signify?" "I say, there were giants on the earth in those days: giants that strove to scale heaven. The first woman's breast that heaved with life on this world yielded the daring which could contend with Omnipotence: the stregth which could bear a thousand years of bondage, -- the vitality which could feed that vulture death through uncounted ages, -- the unexhausted life and uncorrupted excellence, sisters to immortality, which after millenniums of crimes, struggles, and woes, could conceive and bring forth a Messiah. The first woman was heaven-born: vast was the heart whence gushed the well-spring of the blood of nations; and grand the undegenerate head where rested the consort-crown of creation. ... I saw -- I now see -- a woman-Titan: her robe of blue air spreads to the outskirts of the heath, where yonder flock is grazing; a veil white as an avalanche sweeps from hear head to her feet, and arabesques of lighting flame on its borders. Under her breast I see her zone, purple like that horizon: through its blush shines the star of evening. Her steady eyes I cannot picture; they are clear -- they are deep as lakes -- they are lifted and full of worship -- they tremble with the softness of love and the lustre of prayer. Her forehead has the expanse of a cloud, and is paler than the early moon, risen long before dark gathers: she reclines her bosom on the ridge of Stilbro' Moor; her mighty hands are joined beneath it. So kneeling, face to face she speaks with God. That Eve is Jehova's daughter, as Adam was His son."	empowerment eve gender god godliness greatness independence nature self-determination strength superiority titans women	Charlotte Brontë
62081ec	"AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, "The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking," but it isn't open to everyone. It's open only to those who are willing to publicly declare themselves to be alcoholics or addicts and who are willing to give up their inherent right of independence by declaring themselves powerless over addictive drugs and alcohol, as stated in Step One, "We admitted we are powerless over alcohol- that our lives had become unmanageable."	12-step-programs aa addiction-cure alcohol alcohol-abuse alcoholic alcoholics-anonymous alcoholism alcoholism-addiction-recovery drug-abuse drug-addiction empowerment non-12-step non-12-step-programs passages-malibu passages-rehab passages-ventura	Chris Prentiss
8cbccca	Tell her that her body belongs to her and her alone, that she should never feel the need to say yes to something she does not want, or something she feels pressured to do. Teach her that saying no when no feels right is something to be proud of.	empowerment	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
72c104d	By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His presence in the world and making it more effective.	empowerment law rights	Karen Armstrong
e671548	She thought, I need no cup. I am Chalice. I am filling with the grief and hurt and fear of my demesne; the shattered earthlines weigh me down; I am brimming with the needs of my people.	earth-mother empowerment identity self-realization	Robin McKinley
9f0f26a	I choose what sort of relationship I want to have with my family of origin today.	choice empowerment healing integration life-journey love-heals psyche soul-journey wholeness	Maureen Brady
35e0dcb	A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains that bind us.	breaking-free chains empowerment enlightenment healing-past-wounds healing-the-past inner-strength magic miracle-mindset miracles miraculous personal-power power-of-love reinventing-yourself self-empowerment spiritual-growth spiritual-healing spiritual-power spiritual-rebirth spiritual-reinterpretation spiritual-strength spiritual-wisdom spirituality	Marianne Williamson
d02ddf1	Two women at the same event wearing the same outfit is a disaster. But two women at the same event singing the same song is a party. And two women at the same event talking about Doris from Fame is a friendship for life. Fill yourself with words, choruses, and heroes, like you're supposed to fill your wardrobe with shoes, brooches, and belts.	empowerment songs women	Caitlin Moran
eb9b6d7	"You are the promise for a more equal world. So my hope for everyone here is that after you walk across this stage, after you get your diploma, after you go out tonight and celebrate hard - you then will lean way in to your career. You will find something you love doing and you will do it with gusto. Find the right career for you and go all the way to the top. As you walk off this stage today, you start your adult life. Start out by aiming high. Try - and try hard.	empowerment women	Sheryl Sandberg
32e25b8	We don't have to accept the things we might change.	empowerment	Kate Elliott
fe1bb91	The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.	empowerment promise seeds world	Kate Elliott
50182ea	The most empowering thing you can do though is to create innovative ways to bring in livable wages. That begins with a debt free lifestyle.	debt empowerment finances life money motivation recession stay-woke success wages	Brandi L. Bates
81f9dd0	As we move away from the old role in which we were helplessly entrapped as a victim, we make friends with the people who affirm us. Their enthusiasm about us mirrors the positive experience we are having.	affirming empowerment friends friendships healing healing-from-abuse moving-on recovery recovery-from-abuse survivor survivors thriver victim victim-role	Maureen Brady

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

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Charlotte Brontë

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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.

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Jane Austen

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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.

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Jane Austen

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

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Charlotte Brontë

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

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Toni Morrison

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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.

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Charlotte Brontë

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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.

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Steve Maraboli

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

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Steve Maraboli

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Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself.

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Roy T. Bennett

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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.

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Charlotte Brontë

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As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.

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Virginia Woolf

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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.

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Dorothy Parker

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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.

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Virginia Woolf

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?

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Mahatma Gandhi

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What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.

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Anais Nin

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The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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Virginia Woolf

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If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

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Sue Monk Kidd

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

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William Shakespeare

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Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!

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Steve Maraboli

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If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

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Plato

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"I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself."

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Charlotte Brontë

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People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop.

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Steve Maraboli

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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend.

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Charlotte Brontë

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My name is Celaena Sardothien," she whispered, "and I will not be afraid.

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Sarah J. Maas

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I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much.

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James Patterson

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"My name is Celaena Sardothien," she whispered, "and I will not be afraid."

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Sarah J. Maas

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When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

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Virginia Woolf

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I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils.

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Charlotte Brontë

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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

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Virginia Woolf

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Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

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Alexandre Dumas

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Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.

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Salman Rushdie

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Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.

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Nora Ephron

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Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with.

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Steve Maraboli

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Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.

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Hugo Hamilton

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"You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner." (Elizabeth Bennett)"

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Jane Austen

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Believe in your infinite potential. Your only limitations are those you set upon yourself

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Roy T. Bennett

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How would your life be different if...You didn't allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day...You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self.

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Steve Maraboli

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Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

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Virginia Woolf

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LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

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William Shakespeare

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Everything is within your power

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Janice Trachtman

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LEONATO Well, then, go you into hell? BEATRICE No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long.

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William Shakespeare

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I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- . Know this at last.

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Charlotte Brontë

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"An afternoon drive from Los Angeles will take you up into the high mountains, where eagles circle above the forests and the cold blue lakes, or out over the Mojave Desert, with its weird vegetation and immense vistas. Not very far away are Death Valley, and Yosemite, and Sequoia Forest with its giant trees which were growing long before the Parthenon was built; they are the oldest living things in the world. One should visit such places often, and be conscious, in the midst of the city, of their surrounding presence. For this is the real nature of California and the secret of its fascination; this untamed, undomesticated, aloof, prehistoric landscape which relentlessly reminds the traveller of his human condition and the circumstances of his tenure upon the earth. "You are perfectly welcome," it tells him, "during your short visit. Everything is at your disposal. Only, I must warn you, if things go wrong, don't blame me. I accept no responsibility. I am not part of your neurosis. Don't cry to me for safety. There is no home here. There is no security in your mansions or your fortresses, your family vaults or your banks or your double beds. Understand this fact, and you will be free. Accept it, and you will be happy."

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Christopher Isherwood

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"No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne." "I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you." She stood on the hearth; she was pale as the white marble slab and cornice behind her; her eyes flashed large, dilated, unsmiling. "And ask in what sense that young man is worthy of ?"

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Charlotte Brontë

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An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls -- even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls -- without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.

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Pearl S. Buck

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You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

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Naomi Wolf

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In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.

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Aberjhani

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Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.

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William Shakespeare

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What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

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Charlotte Brontë

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Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

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Virginia Woolf

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One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive social impact on the world, but believes that the best way of doing it is, as the saying goes, not by giving poor people a fish and feeding them for a day, but by teaching them to fish, in hopes of feeding them for a lifetime. I have come to know several social entrepreneurs in recent years, and most combine a business school brain with a social worker's heart. The triple convergence and the flattening of the world have been a godsend for them. Those who get it and are adapting to it have begun launching some very innovative projects.

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Thomas L. Friedman

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It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice... there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others--especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth!

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Cornel West

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I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in 's of the poet. She died young--alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed. But she lives; for great poets do not die; they are continuing presences; they need only the opportunity to walk among us in the flesh.

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Virginia Woolf

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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

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Honoré de Balzac

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If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...

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William Shakespeare

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[In 16th century European society] Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory, the total self-abnegation of the woman.

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Antonia Fraser

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Every person in the AA program who's successful is living proof that he or she does have power over addictive drugs and alcohol- the power to stop.

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Chris Prentiss

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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated -- and turned out to grass.

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Pearl S. Buck

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"Always know there are friends somewhere rooting for you. There are people you don't know, always praying for you and lifting you before God. - Jenee, from "To the Survivors"."

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Robert Uttaro

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It was a fact generally acknowledged by all but the most contumacious spirits at the beginning of the seventeenth century that woman was the weaker vessel; weaker than man, that is. ... That was the way God had arranged Creation, sanctified in the words of the Apostle. ... Under the common law of England at the accession of King James I, no female had any rights at all (if some were allowed by custom). As an unmarried woman her rights were swallowed up in her father's, and she was his to dispose of in marriage at will. Once she was married her property became absolutely that of her husband. What of those who did not marry? Common law met that problem blandly by not recognizing it. In the words of [the leading 17th century compendium on women's legal status]: 'All of them are understood either married or to be married.' In 1603 England, in short, still lived in a world governed by feudal law, where a wife passed from the guardianship of her father to her husband; her husband also stood in relation to her as a feudal lord.

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Antonia Fraser

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"Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I would beg to remind him that the first men of the earth were Titans, and that Eve was their mother: from her sprang Saturn, Hyperion, Oceanus; she bore Prometheus" -- "Pagan that you are! what does that signify?" "I say, there were giants on the earth in those days: giants that strove to scale heaven. The first woman's breast that heaved with life on this world yielded the daring which could contend with Omnipotence: the stregth which could bear a thousand years of bondage, -- the vitality which could feed that vulture death through uncounted ages, -- the unexhausted life and uncorrupted excellence, sisters to immortality, which after millenniums of crimes, struggles, and woes, could conceive and bring forth a Messiah. The first woman was heaven-born: vast was the heart whence gushed the well-spring of the blood of nations; and grand the undegenerate head where rested the consort-crown of creation. ... I saw -- I now see -- a woman-Titan: her robe of blue air spreads to the outskirts of the heath, where yonder flock is grazing; a veil white as an avalanche sweeps from hear head to her feet, and arabesques of lighting flame on its borders. Under her breast I see her zone, purple like that horizon: through its blush shines the star of evening. Her steady eyes I cannot picture; they are clear -- they are deep as lakes -- they are lifted and full of worship -- they tremble with the softness of love and the lustre of prayer. Her forehead has the expanse of a cloud, and is paler than the early moon, risen long before dark gathers: she reclines her bosom on the ridge of Stilbro' Moor; her mighty hands are joined beneath it. So kneeling, face to face she speaks with God. That Eve is Jehova's daughter, as Adam was His son."

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Charlotte Brontë

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"AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, "The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking," but it isn't open to everyone. It's open only to those who are willing to publicly declare themselves to be alcoholics or addicts and who are willing to give up their inherent right of independence by declaring themselves powerless over addictive drugs and alcohol, as stated in Step One, "We admitted we are powerless over alcohol- that our lives had become unmanageable."

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Chris Prentiss

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Tell her that her body belongs to her and her alone, that she should never feel the need to say yes to something she does not want, or something she feels pressured to do. Teach her that saying no when no feels right is something to be proud of.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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By increasing the amount of Torah (obligatory religious laws) in the world, they were extending His presence in the world and making it more effective.

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Karen Armstrong

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She thought, I need no cup. I am Chalice. I am filling with the grief and hurt and fear of my demesne; the shattered earthlines weigh me down; I am brimming with the needs of my people.

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Robin McKinley

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I choose what sort of relationship I want to have with my family of origin today.

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Maureen Brady

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A spiritual reinterpretation of events gives us miraculous authority to command the winds, to part the waters, and to break all chains that bind us.

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Marianne Williamson

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Two women at the same event wearing the same outfit is a disaster. But two women at the same event singing the same song is a party. And two women at the same event talking about Doris from Fame is a friendship for life. Fill yourself with words, choruses, and heroes, like you're supposed to fill your wardrobe with shoes, brooches, and belts.

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Caitlin Moran

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"You are the promise for a more equal world. So my hope for everyone here is that after you walk across this stage, after you get your diploma, after you go out tonight and celebrate hard - you then will lean way in to your career. You will find something you love doing and you will do it with gusto. Find the right career for you and go all the way to the top. As you walk off this stage today, you start your adult life. Start out by aiming high. Try - and try hard.

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Sheryl Sandberg

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We don't have to accept the things we might change.

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Kate Elliott

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The history of the world begins with a seed. The seed is the kernel of what you are, but it is also the promise of what you can become.

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Kate Elliott

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The most empowering thing you can do though is to create innovative ways to bring in livable wages. That begins with a debt free lifestyle.

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Brandi L. Bates

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As we move away from the old role in which we were helplessly entrapped as a victim, we make friends with the people who affirm us. Their enthusiasm about us mirrors the positive experience we are having.

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