1,504 Quotes About Empowerment

If you are uncomfortable — in deep pain, angry, yearning, confused — you don't have a problem, you have a life. Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.

A woman who is insecure *probably* does not feel right about herself. (Internal problem). A woman who is intuitive *definitely* feels something is not right. (External awareness). Note the difference.

You must always turn a negative into a positive. Your power lies within. Your ability to come back after a set back is as strong as you allow it to be.

It’s empowering to be the one holding someone else up. It makes you feel strong. Maybe even stronger than you are.

Speaking, supporting, accepting the truth will always empower you beyond your potential, and making fun, laughter, lying against the truth will make you weak, cowardly, sinful, etc.

The timidity in mainstream feminism to admit that women’s choices—not just our problems—are, in the end, political has led to a vision of “women’s empowerment” that often feels brutally disempowering in the end. The root of this trouble is the fact that mainstream feminism has had to conform to patriarchy and capitalism to become mainstream in the first place. Old requirements, instead of being overthrown, are rebranded. Beauty work is labeled “self-care” to make it sound progressive.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

Our memories and the stories we tell ourselves are what we ponder on as we slow down or approach our final years.

The history of colonization, imperialism is a record of betrayal, of lies, and deceits. The demand for that which is real is a demand for reparation, for transformation. In resistance, the exploited, the oppressed work to expose the false reality - to reclaim and recover ourselves.