Womens Empowerment Quotes

“Even if everyone knows her story, no one really knows how she feels. It pours out now: her rage, her shame, her guilt-- it still lingers. But with the telling comes a sense of empowerment. She has no culpability in the Brijee matter. None, other than being naive and being a woman. During the inquiry she had tapped into the righteousness that was her due; she slapped down the least suggestion that she might be a fault. She had learned a lesson: to show weakness, to be tearful or shattered didn't serve her. One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“The girl was startled by her own anger. Heaven had promised Chongba life enough to achieve greatness, and he had given up that life as easily as breathing. He had chosen to become nothing. The girl wanted to scream at him. Her fate had always been nothing. She had never had a choice.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“My hunger roused me. In the depths of the sea, I drew upon my greed, my insatiable ambition. I cried out to my shadow self, my truest self, and reached for her through her iron imprisonment. I understood now why I was called a perversion. It was unnatural for a woman to have this kind of ambition, and yet I existed. My existence was my birthright, and it would be my justification.”
― K.X. Song, The Night Ends with Fire

“You don't think girls are afraid?"
"Girls... know how to sacrifice.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“There was nothing in her imagination to replace the formless, unchanging days of starvation. She clung to life because it seemed to have value, even if only to her.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“Because it was depravity, for a woman to desire more than her lot in life. To aspire to more than safety, protection. To aspire to power.”
― K.X. Song, The Night Ends with Fire

“The concept of the "female" is a loaded one. Female. Woman. The entire concept of the womyn is derived from, and supports the existence and submission to the male.

When you hear "female", the social association is weakness, incompetence, and fragility. Almost as if nothing done can shatter the chain of alleged inferiority. If you refuse this, society makes you a "radical".”
― Sasha Scarr

“How could they refuse to let girls have their own Chrysalises?' I say through clenched teeth. "It would be such a help to the war!"
Yizhi's eyes darken. "What family would let their son enlist if there's a realistic possibility that he'd be killed by a girl.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“the girl knew that fathers and sons made the pattern of the family, as the family made the pattern of the universe”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“But Tove has a hard time finding her place in institutions. Where it is made clear that women are not welcome.
"Art comes from the balls, you see”
― Pénélope Bagieu, Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

“She realizes that women were the first victims of the Civil War: one out of 2 women were raped, their sons were recruited as child soldiers, they walked long miles to feed their families. Yet nobody listened to them or involved them”
― Pénélope Bagieu, Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

“After fourteen years of war, Leyman's patience is running thin. "It's time to stop being politely angry!" Exhausted and desperate, she threatens to rip off her clothes and stand there buck naked in protest (a very serious offense in her culture.)”
― Pénélope Bagieu, Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

“You see, girls are supposed to run. "It can damage the reproductive system"... The issue is put to a vote and Cheryl is eventually allowed on track provided that she keeps away from the boys on the team as she represents a "distraction".”
― Pénélope Bagieu, Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World

“Aimlessness isn’t purposelessness. Not to me. Aimlessness isn’t meaningless. Quite the contrary. Aimlessness isn’t absence from life, it is full-bodied presence in it. To wander aimlessly is to move through the world without the conceit that we actually know what is coming next. That is, to move through the world with grace.”
― Toby Israel, Vagabondess: A Guide to Solo Female Travel

“They don't want to be men, only to be allowed to have a say. God wouldn't have given us feet if He didn't want us to walk. By the same token, why give us a brain if He didn't want us to have thoughts?”
― Stacey Lee, The Downstairs Girl

“The thought that babies would become children, and children would become people, never occurred to them. The concept that perhaps biology was not destiny, and that not all little girls would be pretty princesses, and not all little boys would be brave soldiers, also never occurred to them. Things might have been easier if those ideas had ever slithered into their heads, unwanted but undeniably important. Alas, their minds were made up, and left no room for such revolutionary opinions”
― Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones

“Each of them wanted people to see them, not an idea of them that someone else had come up with”
― Seanan McGuire, Down Among the Sticks and Bones

“Woman empowered is civilization empowered.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“Its an honour to be women.
Develop women not divide.
Compliment not compete.
Promote not pull down.
Let's work together”
― Janna Cachola

“[A woman] takes up just the right amount of space. Small is best. You need to prove yourself worthy of the molecules you displace, madam.”
― Therese Oneill, Unbecoming a Lady: The Forgotten Sluts and Shrews Who Shaped America

“There is no short dress, only short sight.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“If you don't give it weight, it doesn't matter.”
― Jenna Banks, I Love Me More: How to Find Happiness and Success through Self-Love

“A man who raises his hand at a woman, has no right to the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Woman Over World: The Novel

“People keep using the term "pu**y" to refer to someone weak. I say, have you ever studied a "pu**y"? Let me tell you something as a biologist and behaviorist. A "pu**y" is ten times stronger and more resilient than any "d**k" in the world. A vagina can do whatever a penis can do, ten times more efficiently, and that too while bleeding.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“A man is merely spoiled by his vices while a woman is soiled by hers.”
― Sara Collins

“She felt deflowered by life, but she refused to feel dethroned.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones, Guru In The Glass: A Mysterious Encounter While Dying To Live The Unlived Life

“The day I died is the day I began to survive...”
― Diana Kouprina, Borderline: A Poetic Memoir

“All I could do was hide deep within the safety of my past memories.”
― Diana Kouprina, Borderline: A Poetic Memoir

“I know she was there the night I died- her and Babushka Polina.”
― Diana Kouprina, Borderline: A Poetic Memoir

“He was a man among boys, a leader before they had any concept of leadership.”
― Jean M. Auel