I grew up surrounded by these strong, brilliant women who showed me what it meant to show up in the world with purpose and intention.

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

Salman ensures that everyone grows along with him. He is not someone who will step on your shoulder to move ahead; he makes sure that everyone with him grows together. That is the best quality about...

If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

Actually being able to exercise your own choice can bring about greater opportunity.

All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.

I'm not interested in being a 'singles' girl, it's the last thing I ever wanted to be.

Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated...

Madam Walker was an incredible woman, but she wasn't the only one of her time who was. She just took it to the highest height.

Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.

Power to the peaceful!

If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.

I want everyone to know what they deserve in relationships: that they can demand equality and kindness. Because everyone will have a relationship at some point in their life. It's what we all do,...

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their...

Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.

Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men.

She is a compassionate Amazon forming a muse from misery, full of graphic words, she doesn't hide, she speaks, she writes, she uses words that individualize her, she goes deeper and people cannot...

Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers - - strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.

Definitely they are poor, but they have all the potential to become rich; they just need a hand to support, and I want to be that hand for them all.

We teach people in order to open up their minds and release their captive powers. But we cannot predict the result. Freedom - we free their minds from superstition. We give the people the keys of the...

She was afraid of nothing and demanded everything.

That's No Ordinary Girl

You know what's really, powerfully sexy? A sense of humor. A taste for adventure. A healthy glow. Hips to grab on to. Openness. Confidence. Humility. Appetite. Intuition. … Smart-ass comebacks....

I've spent all the years since full of guilt and misery, even though I didn't remember it. I've let it run my thoughts, my plans, my whole life. But the experience doesn't own me. I own it. What I do...

The power of the delete key.

Philanthropists should find innovations that release the energies of people. Individuals don't want to be taken care of - - they need to be given a chance to fulfill their own potential. {142}

He glanced around, his eyes widening a little when he looked toward her bedroom. She winced, but resisted the urge to jump and close the door. He was staring at the poster above her bed, an image of...

I am the witch of my mystical world.

You always had the power, my dear. You just had to learn it for yourself. Glinda the Good Witch