“Reframing love as something I get to create with someone I admire, rather than something that just happens to me without my control or consent, is empowering.”— Mandy Len Catron, ted.com
“girls’ soccer practice: they are running so hard and shouting so strong with ponytails ponytails ponytails backlit and leaping they are not afraid of you.”— Jenna Jaco, sweettreereview.com
“The buzz word in popular feminism today is empowerment. When I became a feminist many years ago, the word we used was liberation. Unlike empowerment, liberation is a collective concept which means that even if my life is all rosy and ‘empowered,’ it doesn’t mean shit for those women who are doing lo…”— Gail Dines, counterpunch.org
“How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves.”— Karen Quan, amazon.com
“Maybe she's gone and I can't resurrect her, The truth is she doesn't need me to protect her, We know the true death, the true way of all flesh, Everyone's dying, but girl you're not old yet”— Vampire Weekend, open.spotify.com
“There is a confidence, an assertion of self required in writing that we so often confuse with recklessness, but isn’t necessarily the same thing. I can be ruthless, daring, even ‘crazy’ in my writing and deliberate and thoughtful in the choices I make with it later; to doubt that is insulting, but I…”— Meaghan O'Connell, nymag.com
“Nudity empowers some. Modesty empowers some. Different things empower different women and its not your place to tell her which one it is”— kennabbby, twitter.com
“You’re only as sick as your secrets. If it is a secret—anything that makes you sort of shame-based—if you can claim it, it has a lot of less power over you.”— Carrie Fisher, palmbeachillustrated.com
“I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.”— Michelle Obama, telegraph.co.uk
“Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware of, but that's just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history—empowering women to be able t…”— Hillary Clinton, abcnews.go.com
“Though their values are liberal and their methods unconventional, ENFPs are incredibly driven folk who almost always have a clear-cut goal in mind. They don’t want to go wherever the wind blows them – they want to embody the storm. And they’ll take down whatever stands in their way.”— Heidi Priebe, amazon.com
“You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can’t.”— Annie Leibovitz, fastcocreate.com
“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”— Audre Lorde, quotes-friendship.com
“Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things they've got symbols of!”— Marilyn Monroe, theguardian.com
“I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted.”— Marilyn Monroe, theguardian.com
“Fame will go by, and, so long, I've had you fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.”— Marilyn Monroe, theguardian.com
“It might be a kind of relief to be finished. You have to start all over again.”— Marilyn Monroe, theguardian.com
“Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all.”— Marilyn Monroe, intothegloss.com