#deter

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#dignity #empowerment #freedom #gender #girls

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. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#empowerment #equality #freedom #happiness #husbands

Over the years, I've come to realize that determination makes one to punch above one's weight. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#inspirational #motivational #inspirational

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

— Virginia Woolf

#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. ↗

— Martha Washington

#am #cheerful #circumstance #determined #disposition

Let him who would move the world first move himself. ↗

— Socrates

#self-determination #self-development #change

Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#determine #him #man #reveal

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

#country #determination #else #idealism #more

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#fail #failure #fear #necessary #prospect

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#begins #beyond #brightest #deteriorate #flame