#empower

Enjoy your dreams and empower others to live theirs. ↗

— Joseph Ash

#inspirational-quotes #motivational-inspirational #self-improvement #art

I hate men who are afraid of women's strength. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#feminism #woman #women-s-strenth #love

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender

And we shall see for the first time since man lifted the club to strike down his brother, the world that woman would make and what woman have to teach men, and only when men can be taught will they be allowed to run free among woman again ↗

— Anne Rice

#men

Stop comparing yourself with others. If they are good at something, you too are good at something else. Self-confidence is not measured by your own capabilities versus that of others, but by your own needs. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#confident #empowerment #jedi #motivational #self-confidence

When a man gives his opinion, he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she's a bitch. ↗

— Bette Davis

#double-standards #empowerment #feminism #gender #hypocrisy

[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. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#books #character #clichés #conduct #double-standards

Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#fiction #gender #on-fiction #problems #women

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#empowers #go #happy #happy person #i

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts. ↗

— Tim O'Reilly

#efforts #empowerment #end #groups #in the end