#empower

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg! ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#beauty #dreams #ducks #empowerment #fairy-tales

If you feel rooted in your home and family, if you're active in your community, there's nothing more empowering. The best way to make a difference in the world is to start by making a difference in your own life. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#best #best way #community #difference #empowering

Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless earth in order that we could be born out of living flesh. And what's so important about this priority in creation, anyway? When we are building, we lay foundations on the ground first, things of no intrinsic merit or beauty, before subsequently raising up sumptuous buildings and ornate palaces. Lowly seeds are nourished in the earth, and then later the ravishing blooms appear; lovely roses blossom forth and scented narcissi. ↗

— Moderata Fonte

#building #dignity #empowerment #flowers #gender

I really feel there's no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That's an empowering feeling - that we can bring a song to life. ↗

— Ben Harper

#bring #empowering #feel #feeling #i

On Capitol Hill, House Republicans have been doing our part. We've been hard at work developing policies that will help empower all Americans. We're beginning to see results. We reduced taxes for everyone. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#been #beginning #capitol #capitol hill #developing

It is truly a privilege to be able to support all women's causes on a global level. It is remarkable that something as simple as television can empower us to create change and awareness in the world. ↗

— Teri Hatcher

#awareness #causes #change #create #empower

Having a director who is also an actor makes for that very relaxed way of working and it's empowering. ↗

— Chris Hemsworth

#also #director #empowering #having #makes

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#bachelorhood #empowerment #freedom #independence #individuality

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. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#control #empowerment #inspirational #letting-go #life

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#dignity #empowerment #freedom #independence #individuality