Angela Davis
Political Activist, Scholar
"The process of empowerment cannot be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb."
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Empowerment
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Loretta Young
Actress
"A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself."
Michelle Obama
Lawyer, Author, First Lady
"I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity."
Mae West
Actress, Singer, Screenwriter
"For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore."
Andrew Carnegie
Industrialist, Philanthropist
"Anything in life worth having is worth working for."
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"Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination."
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"MT [Mother Teresa] was not a friend of the poor. She was a friend of poverty. She said that suffering was a gift from God. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction."
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"One of the things that we must do as teachers is twirl around and around, and find out what works with the situation that we're in. Our models might not work. And that twirling, changing, is part of the empowerment."
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"Theres a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and womens literacy and empowerment, including womens gainful employment. If you look at the more than 300 districts of India, the strongest influences in explaining fertility variations are womens literacy and gainful economic employment."
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"The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself."
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"We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen."
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"The undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions"
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"Women have always been the strong ones of the world."
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"Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring."
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"Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge."
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"Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God's work, peacefully and harmoniously."
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"Taking initiative is a form of self-empowerment."
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"Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity."
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"If you can't stand yourself, neither can anybody else!"
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"Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions."
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"A man's got to do what a man's got to do."
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"Spiritual empowerment is evidenced in our lives by our willingness to tell ourselves the truth, to listen to the truth when it's told to us, and to dispense truth as lovingly as possible, when we feel compelled to talk from the heart."
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"It comes from within."
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"I think we live in an age of self empowerment and possibilities, the only excuse to not do something is yourself."
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"Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together."
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