#power

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

I'm single because I was born that way. ↗

— Mae West

#choice #dignity #empowerment #freedom #independence

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art. ↗

— Andre Benjamin

#doing #i #learned #most #most powerful

A friend in power is a friend lost. ↗

— Henry Adams

#lost #power

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. ↗

— Henry Adams

#effect #ends #killing #men #power

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. ↗

— John Adams

#doing #god #his #laws #power

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. ↗

— John Adams

#agent #choice #implies #intellectual #liberty