#empowerment

Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. ↗

#double-entendre #empowerment #freedom #independence #institutions

There's no time like the present to love deeply, claim our power and live our purpose! ↗

#empowerment #inspirational #love #inspirational

Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success. ↗

— Mariah Burton Nelson

#empowerment-of-women #sports #women #change

Everyone can be great because everyone can serve. ↗

— Dr. Martin Luther King

#empowerment #encouragement #inspirational #inspirational

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#expectations #gender #honesty #independence #influence

LEONATO Well, then, go you into hell? BEATRICE No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#empowerment #freedom #happiness #heaven #husbands

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- they only. Know this at last. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#conscience #courtship #dignity #empowerment #feminism

Raise the bar higher than your opinion... ↗

— Gino Norris

#motivation #opinion #perspective #self-understad-nding #motivational

The more we see ourselves as a vibrant, successful, inspiring person who boldly declares and manifests her vision, the more we become just that. ↗

— Kristi Bowman

#empowerment #empowerment-of-women #inspirational #self-development #self-esteem

peace is not about the absence of conflict but it is about the presence of sincerity. ↗