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

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

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....

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

The moment you inject information, education, and an entrepreneurial spark in a community, it gets empowered enough to inspire, build, and uplift itself.

I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the...

I love connecting with people who have been through the fire and come out stronger and wiser. Using their experiences to inspire and empower others. Those are my people.

Transform yourself from desperate doormat to outspoken doormat - wielding proctologist.

Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present. I know I shall never feel lonely or powerless again.

She shot out of her seat, tired of waiting, at last ready to create her future.

Here's to everyone who has survived something devastating - - something that shattered your self - confidence and distorted your world in one blow. Whether you were fierce in the face of it or fell to...

{...} what I wish for Chizalum is the following: that she is full of opinions, and that her opinions stem from a well-informed, humane, and open mind. That she have health and happiness. That she have...

After a long, long time she reached an important conclusion. She was never going to stand by and say nothing again.

Love is a word, another kind of open. As the diamond comes into a knot of flame I am Black because I come from the earth's inside take my word for jewel in the open light.

If you are locked in a room in your dream, you just tell yourself there's a key in your pocket. Then you reach in your pocket for the key and get yourself out. It's your dream. You get to write the...

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven;...

LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of...

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

{In 16th century European society} Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory,...

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...

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.