#empower

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance. ↗

— Jane Austen

#clichés #desirability #disdain #education #empowerment

It's so empowering to see yourself as a machine. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#machine #see #yourself

What is black empowerment when it seems to benefit not the vast majority but an elite that tends to be recycled? ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#black #elite #empowerment #majority #recycled

Once shoppers become empowered, we will facilitate industries thinking in completely new terms; for example, making products that are totally biodegradable. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#completely #empowered #example #facilitate #for example

I have women coming up to me and saying: 'I love your character! She's so empowered. She takes control; she gets what she wants.' That's another side of her. And I respect that in Joan. She says and does things that I would never allow myself to do. ↗

— Christina Hendricks

#another #character #coming #control #does

I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information. ↗

— Marilu Henner

#especially #girl #i #information #life-changing

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me. ↗

— Jane Austen

#dignity #elizabeth-bennet #empowerment #fear #independence

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. ↗

— Rumi

#creativity #empowerment #independence #inspirational-stories #self-confidence

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. ↗

— Jane Austen

#double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism #flattery

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #identity