Ladies Empowerment Quotes

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women." [Commencement Address, Wellesley College, 1996]

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.

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

The man or the woman in whom resides greater virtue is the higher; neither the loftiness nor the lowliness of a person lies in the body according to the sex, but in the perfection of conduct and virtues.

As women, we must have our weapons in this world, whether they’re our minds or our fists or our wiles or our tears.

When they (the men, the scavengers) come for you, do not give yourself to them so easily. Wear your strength like armour, fight like a beast. Do not let them tell you that you belong to them. Be fearless. Be a lion. Be like lava. Rip them apart, and burn their bones. And when you are done, tell the world that you belong to no man. That you are a lady, a warrior, a tsunami, and you belong only to yourself.

forget being lady-like & allow yourself to show the world just how unapolegeticaly angry this inequality makes you

If you don't have shadows, you're not in the light.

Ladies! I encourage you NOT to be so easily flattered by what a man has. Be flattered by his strength, courage, integrity, and character as a man. Be impressed by his ability to be honest, faithful, loving, and respectful to you. Be impressed because he can communicate and openly express his feelings. Be impressed because he’s got confidence, direction, and purpose in his life. Be impressed because he’s a quality man, NOT a fine man. Real Talk!

Women Empowerment Reminder of The Day. Always respect yourself as a woman. You attract what you are, so be very mindful of how you’re representing yourself. If you want respect, you must first learn how to respect yourself, first. Attracting negative attention is never a good thing. Be a woman of substance! Be a woman that both women and men respect, admire, and look up to. Don’t disrespect yourself by lowering your standards and accepting just anything that comes your way. It’s okay to be single! If you want a relationship of substance, you can’t keep entertaining people and things that mean you no good. Think about it! It’s all up to you.

Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man.

She wasn't kind of lady that depended on a man and I think that's what made her so irrestible to them, any man she had loved she wanted ~ and the men that loved her back couldn't handle not being needed, so she showed them the door and grew her own wings as they walked out. Love to her isn't a maybe thing, nor is it attachment and any man whom thinks he will ever own her would be best not to try at all.

It was natural for [Spartan women] to think and speak as Gorgo, the wife of Leonidas, is said to have done, when some foreign lady, as it would seem, told her that the women of Lacedaemon were the only women of the world who could rule men; 'With good reason,' she said, 'for we are the only women who bring forth men'.

[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men – and learned men among them – have been and are so inclined to express both in speaking and in their treatises and writings so many wicked insults about women and their behaviour. Not only one or two ... but, more generally, from the treatises of all philosophers and poets and from all the orators – it would take too long to mention their names – it seems that they all speak from one and the same mouth. Thinking deeply about these matters, I began to examine my character and conduct as a natural woman and, similarly, I considered other women whose company I frequently kept, princesses, great ladies, women of the middle and lower classes, who had graciously told me of their most private and intimate thoughts, hoping that I could judge impartially and in good conscience whether the testimony of so many notable men could be true. To the best of my knowledge, no matter how long I confronted or dissected the problem, I could not see or realise how their claims could be true when compared to the natural behaviour and character of women.

I would rather you consider me as a physician, not a lady." "Why must you be one or the other?" Ransom asked reasonably. "You're both. I have no difficulty carrying a lady's bag while at the same time respecting her professional competence.

Ladies, how do you expect a man to love you, if he hasn't first learnt how to love himself?

My Lady, you certainly tell me about wonderful constancy, strength and virtue and firmness of women, so can one say the same thing about men? (...) Response [by Lady Rectitude]: "Fair sweet friend, have you not yet heard the saying that the fool sees well enough a small cut in the face of his neighbour, but he disregards the great gaping one above his own eye? I will show you the great contradiction in what the men say about the changeability and inconstancy of women. It is true that they all generally insist that women are very frail [= fickle] by nature. And since they accuse women of frailty, one would suppose that they themselves take care to maintain a reputation for constancy, or at the very least, that the women are indeed less so than they are themselves. And yet, it is obvious that they demand of women greater constancy than they themselves have, for they who claim to be of this strong and noble condition cannot refrain from a whole number of very great defects and sins, and not out of ignorance, either, but out of pure malice, knowing well how badly they are misbehaving. But all this they excuse in themselves and say that it is in the nature of man to sin, yet if it so happens that any women stray into any misdeed (of which they themselves are the cause by their great power and longhandedness), then it's suddenly all frailty and inconstancy, they claim. But it seems to me that since they do call women frail, they should not support that frailty, and not ascribe to them as a great crime what in themselves they merely consider a little defect.

Dear Young Black Males, Show respect for our young sistas. They are young Queens, and you’re young Kings. Black is beautiful, period. If you’re one of those young men who put light-skinned women on a pedestal, but look down on dark-skinned young ladies, stop it! Black women come in all shades, and all black families have all shades within their families. It’s one thing to have a preference, and that’s okay, but don’t belittle the other. Respect, appreciate, and protect our sistas. In closing: We already have to deal with race related crap from other ethnic groups, so why add to it amongst our own? We need to build each other up and be united as one, no matter what our skin tone is. Don’t physically or mentally abuse your young Queen. Respect her just like you’d like your mother, grandmother, or sister to be respected by another male. There’s nothing attractive or cool about mistreating a woman. Nothing at all!

Getting nowhere chasing something that might never be anything more than a mythology." - Felicity Montague

Every woman is beautiful!!! But you are an art of God

[A woman] takes up just the right amount of space. Small is best. You need to prove yourself worthy of the molecules you displace, madam.

Don't just speak for yourself, Be who stands up for somebody else.

Its an honour to be women. Develop women not divide. Compliment not compete. Promote not pull down. Let's work together

She wasn’t a one in a million woman, she was a once in a lifetime lady.

But Tove has a hard time finding her place in institutions. Where it is made clear that women are not welcome. "Art comes from the balls, you see

I got my own blessings and I'm staying in my lane. What is for me will not pass me. There is enough light for everybody to shine.

You could never mistake the sound of true grief, once you had felt it yourself. It made the mettle of the soul ring in sympathy, like one bell softly chiming whenever its neighbor was struck.

She realizes that women were the first victims of the Civil War: one out of 2 women were raped, their sons were recruited as child soldiers, they walked long miles to feed their families. Yet nobody listened to them or involved them

You see, girls are supposed to run. "It can damage the reproductive system"... The issue is put to a vote and Cheryl is eventually allowed on track provided that she keeps away from the boys on the team as she represents a "distraction".

After fourteen years of war, Leyman's patience is running thin. "It's time to stop being politely angry!" Exhausted and desperate, she threatens to rip off her clothes and stand there buck naked in protest (a very serious offense in her culture.)

We need to upgrade from female empowerment to female engagement. No matter how confident or empowered a woman feels if they don't act or work towards their vision and mission, that power depletes. How do we help take our sisters to their next level?

It can take forever for a willing underachieving to reverse his underachievement and become an achiever. There are about a handful of reasons for this. His empowerment needs for which he needs help with, his basic needs according to his age, his mental language and skills he must master typically slows down the process of reversal.

Literately’ was used in a novel by Elizabeth Griffiths. While no other examples of use have been forthcoming, it is, in my opinion, an elegant extension of ‘literate’. Dr. Murray agreed I should write an entry for the Dictionary, but I have since been told it is unlikely to be included. It seems our lady author has not proved herself a ‘literata’- an abomination of a word coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge that refers to a ‘literary lady’. It too has only one example of use, but its inclusion is assured. This may sound like sour grapes, but I can’t see it catching on. The number of literary ladies in the world is surely so great as to render them ordinary and deserving members of the literati.

Dear Young Black Males, Are you growing up without your father? How does that make you feel? Angry, sad, confused, resentful, etc? Do you feel a void in your life? Do you feel like your life would’ve been better if your father had been in your life? If you get a young lady pregnant, do what’s right. Even if you choose NOT to be with her anymore, you have a responsibility to your child. Even if it was a one-night stand and/or booty call, hey, you took that risk. If you don’t want kids, strap up every time. I don’t care if she tells you she’s on the pill. Strap up! If not, don’t get mad or make excuses when she tells you that she’s having your baby. If you refuse to do your part, she may even get you for child support. If you have a job, that means your check will be garnished. So think twice before you take off your clothes. Is it worth it? Think it through.

Official historians have long depicted wu zetian as a sort of chinese version of the Red Queen from The Alice and Wonderland, by focusing on her secret police and fondness by bumping off enemies. "And she slept her way to the top". An interesting angle given that her brief dynasty was one of the most prosperious periods in many respects (in terms of peace, arts, and social progress.) On the other hand, what is always pointed out (and emphasized as fact) is that she was fearsome, ambitious, and ruthless. Common (and valued)character traits in just about every emperor...but clearly not easy to digest in an empress

She was approaching forty. She was overweight. She made no effort to enhance her personal appearance. Given cultural standards, she'd made herself invisible. Ours is a society in which slimness and beauty are equated with status, where youth and charm are rewarded and remembered with admiration. Let a woman be drab or slightly overweight and the collective eye slides right by, forgetting afterward... The ultimate disguise because, aside from the physical, she'd adopted the persona of the servant class. Who knows what conversations she'd been privy to straightening the bed pillows, changing the sheets. She'd run the household, served canapés, and freshened the drinks while the lords and ladies of the house had talked on and on, oblivious to her presence because she wasn't one of them.

Our team walked through the women’s empowerment center, which was operating in a multistory building, one of the stops we were contemplating for the First Lady. The young man and woman escorting us took us to the roof as part of the tour. I looked out over the city, and other than the bright blue sea, most everything I saw was dusty, arid, and brown except, off in the distance, where I noticed a patch of vibrant green. There were nice buildings and what appeared to be trees and grass. It looked like a desert oasis, or a mirage. “What’s that?” I asked. “That,” our consul general said, “is an Israeli settlement.” “But it’s so green. I thought you said there was very little running water here.” “That’s right,” he said. “There’s limited running water here. The Israelis control the water so twenty times more goes there than comes here.” It was the first time I saw up close what it was like to live under the daily humiliation Palestinians had suffered for years. There it was, a better, easier life, starting right at them.

Women should occupy their time with things that suit their sex; cooking, cleaning, knitting, and beauty tips. Countless are those times when a woman is denounced for doing something for the mere reason that it is not for the ladies to do; says who? I got no memo detailing who does what and why.

I put myself in places where I feel like I don't "belong" to get used to its for when I am there.

I bet if men would have taken "ladies first" seriously the world would be a different place.

Few have cared to appreciate that the job of a switchboard operator demanded a high level of communication skills and an exceptional grip over the English language, besides decent telephone manners. This is a major reason why switchboard operating was one of the first careers completely dominated by women. Yet, the lady telephone operator has been parodied, often in bad taste, in the media, in films and on television soaps. One important reason why women were preferred is because they talked in soft tones, sometimes in whispers and had excellent telephone manners. This has been a trait injected into the female of the species almost from the time she learns how to speak. Imposing silence on women is one of the most invisible forms of violence perpetrated on girls and women across the world.

In the world of underachievers, empowerment is a magic wand that turns 'I can't' into 'I can' and 'I won't' into 'I will.

A positive mindset guides underachievers towards resilience, optimism, and newfound self-confidence.

The underlying root cause of underachievement is usually not always obvious. Yet if not addressed, it will continue to slow down the person's success.

Vulnerability is a natural part of the empowerment process; supporting individuals through their vulnerabilities is essential for maintaining their motivation and self-esteem.

In the pursuit of autonomy, underachievers may inadvertently become dependent on external validation which can sometimes affect the response in empowerment programs.

Potential lies dormant in the heart of every underachiever, like a slumbering giant awaiting the call to awaken and stride confidently toward their aspirations.

Underachievement is a canvas waiting for the strokes of effort, determination, and resilience to paint the picture of a person reaching their zenith of potential.

Potential unfulfilled is a story left untold; every underachiever has the power to script their narrative of success with determination, perseverance, and belief in oneself.

An underachiever's potential is a melody waiting to be played; with the right notes of motivation and self-confidence, they can compose the symphony of their dreams.

Without intervention, the underachiever is trapped in the curse of subpar performance, unable to break free and unleash their full potential.

Underachievement is the cocoon that holds the untransformed potential within; with the wings of opportunity, support, and belief, an underachiever can emerge as a butterfly of accomplishment.

Without the right support, underachievers are bound to hold back from soaring to the heights their abilities could reach.

Some individuals consciously choose to underachieve, while others may unknowingly fall into patterns of underperformance, driven by deeper psychological factors.

The decision to underachieve can be a conscious act, driven by factors like lack of motivation or fear, or it can be an unconscious pattern, subtly influencing behaviour without clear awareness.

Underachievement can be a conscious choice, where individuals knowingly decide to perform below their capabilities, or an unconscious pattern driven by subtle behaviours and attitudes.

The decision to underachieve is multifaceted, encompassing conscious choices driven by fears or lack of interest and unconscious patterns shaped by past experiences.

Underachievement can be a conscious decision rooted in various reasons or an unconscious response to internal and external pressures.

Underachieving persons often consciously decide to perform below their potential or unconsciously follow patterns that hinder their success.

Underachievers may consciously opt for lower performance, or it might be an unconscious response to fears, doubts, or past disappointments.

Underachievement doesn't always define a person permanently. Countless successful individuals overcame early struggles, proving that potential can be realized despite initial setbacks.

Underachievement can be transient state, not necessarily a permanent label. Many accomplished individuals faced setbacks early in life before realizing their full potential.

Whether deliberate or unintentional, underachievement reflects a complex interplay of conscious decisions and subconscious patterns that influence performance.

Underachievement is a description of the gap between a person’s potential and his performance. By identifying and addressing the contributing factors, we can bridge this gap and unlock the extraordinary capabilities within.

The life stories of great minds like Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln remind us that setbacks are not predictors of future success.

Underachievement is not a life sentence. History is filled with examples of remarkable individuals who turned setbacks into success, demonstrating the potential for growth and improvement.

Underachievement can be just a phase in a person’s life. Numerous accomplished figures, from Einstein to J.K. Rowling, faced challenges early on but went on to achieve greatness.

Many people think that underachievers cannot be high achievers later in life. With proper support, motivation and interventions; underachievers can overcome challenges and reach their full potential.

By addressing the factors contributing to underperformance, we can unlock human potential, ensuring that no gift goes untapped and empowering individuals to reach new heights.

Underachievement is not an affliction but a description of unrealized potential.

Underachievement is not a disability but an opportunity to bridge the gap between potential and performance.

Underachievers are not always lazy or lacking motivation. Underachievement can result from external barriers, lack of support or resources, and mental or physical health issues, not necessarily due to laziness or lack of motivation.

Underachievers need support or intervention to improve. Support and intervention are crucial for underachievers to overcome challenges and realize their full potential.

Underachievement is not a permanent label that cannot be overcomed as individuals can work to improve and reach their full potential.

Many underachievers do care about their successes and are sometimes deeply invested in their achievements but may face challenges that eventually hinder their goals and causes them to sink deeper into underachievement.

High dropout rates in schools are not just statistics; they represent missed opportunities and unfulfilled potential, urging a collective effort to combat student underachievement.

Underachievement is not solely due to individual factors like personality or intellect. External factors such as societal pressure, lack of resources, and systemic barriers can contribute to underachievement.

Underachievement not only limits personal growth but also poses a threat to economic well-being, emphasizing the need for comprehensive strategies.

The prevalence of underachievement is a societal challenge that demands strategic interventions to create a level playing field for all individuals, regardless of their circumstances.

Understanding the dilemmas faced by underachieving individuals call for a holistic approach, addressing the environmental factors, personal circumstances, and support systems that contribute to their struggles.

Recognizing the unique characteristics of each underachiever is the key to unlocking their true potential.

Understanding underachievement requires a holistic examination of behavioural cues that unravel the truth about a person's true potential.

In the puzzle of underachievement, the signs often manifest in performance, goal-setting habits, and the resilience demonstrated in the face of challenges.

When addressing underachievement, a holistic understanding of each person's unique circumstances paves the way for effective interventions and empowerment.

There is no cookie-cutter solution to underachievement, and this emphasises the need for nuanced approaches that respect and account for the individual differences at play.

From limited educational opportunities to parental pressures, the factors influencing student underachievement are as diverse as the individual students themselves.

Tailored support is the cornerstone of addressing underachievement, acknowledging that the roots of each person's struggle are deeply embedded in their distinct circumstances.

Empowerment unleashes the potential within underachievers by providing a roadmap for self-discovery, collaborative planning, and access to the tools and resources essential for transformative growth.

The Empowerment Triad is a comprehensive approach that entails fostering awareness, collaborative action planning, and providing essential tools and resources, equipping them with the tools for self-directed success.

Empowering underachieving individuals is a dynamic process, involving a deep dive into their strengths, weaknesses, motivations, goals and values.

Empowering underachieving persons entails working alongside them, nurturing their skills and confidence, and unlocking the potential for them to take charge of their lives and aspirations.

Empowerment can close the gap between underachievers’ performance and their potential, providing the tools needed to overcome obstacles and seize opportunities to reach their potential.

Empowerment is a process of transformation, involving a deep understanding of underachievers' unique qualities, collaborative planning, and the provision of essential tools to navigate their journey towards success.

Empowering underachieving persons thrives on understanding, collaboration, and equipping them with the knowledge and tools to shape their destinies.

In empowering underachieving persons, identifying their strengths and weaknesses, setting meaningful goals, and providing resources is necessary for their success.

Collaborative learning transforms underachieving students into active participants, fostering a sense of community and shared success.

It is important to encourage autonomy in underachievers so they can take charge of their growth and development.

Empowerment programs are transformative programs that not only changes lives but have the power to shape a brighter future for entire communities.

A relapse in underachievement can be triggered by new challenges or setbacks; addressing underlying issues is crucial to fortify against these obstacles.

Empowering underachievers is an ongoing journey, not a one-time fix; it requires consistent effort to prevent setbacks and ensure lasting success.