“Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they’ve learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.” ― Greg Mortenson
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” ― Alice Walker
“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” ― Roseanne Barr
“I’m a wild girl from a cursed line of women. I paw at the ground and run under the moon. I like the feel of my own body. I’m not a slut or a nympho or someone who’s just asking for it. And if I talk too loud it’s just that I’m trying to be heard.” ― Libby Bray
“Boys are idiots.
“Girls are idiots, too, of course, but boys are a special kind of idiot.
“A girl, for instance, will vote for a boy in an election, or go to a movie that’s about a boy, or buy a book that features a boy hero (or villain). Boys are much less likely to return the favor. They can’t wrap their feeble minds around the idea that this girl might have anything in common with them. It’s like they can’t recognize girls as human beings.” ― Josh Lieb
“I do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.” ― Mary Wollstonecraft
“Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it with use.” ― Ruth Gordon
“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.” — Madonna
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel
“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
“Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.” ― Bethany Hamilton
“It’s not what you call me, but what I answer to.” ― African proverb
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.” ― Toni Morrison
“You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.” ― Erica Jong
“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” ― Ayn Rand
“We cannot succeed when half of us are held back.” – Malala Yousafzai
“This is the fate of colored girls globally right now: the denial of their girlhood, the denial of their childhood, and the constant state of risk and danger they are living in.” ― Bell Hooks
“Don’t be the girl who fell. Be the girl who got back up.” ― Jenette Stanley
“There is a growing strength in women but it’s in the forehead, not the forearm.” ― Beverly Sills
“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.” ― Lois Wyse
“Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
“It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.” ― Sally Kempton
“Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good — on your mirror!” ― Susan Jeffers
“You don’t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman.” ― Jane Galvin Lewis
“I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking Chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.” ― J.K. Rowling
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.” ― Rebecca West
“Girls can’t set off firecrackers on people’s front porches?” “They can,” he said… “But they’re smart enough not to. That’s the difference.” ― Sarah Dessen“This is for girls who have the tendency to stay up at night listening to music that reminds them of their current situation. Who hide their fears, hurt, pain and tears under the smiles, laughs and giggles on a daily basis. The girls who wear their heart on their sleeve. The girls who pray that things will work out just once and they’ll be satisfied. The girls who scream and cry to their pillows because everyone else fails to listen. The girls who have so many secrets but won’t tell a soul. The girls who have mistakes and regrets as a daily moral. The girls that never win. The girls that stay up all night thinking about that one boy and hoping that he’ll notice her one day. The girls who take life as it comes, to the girls who are hoping that it’ll get better somewhere down the road. For the girls who love with all their heart although it always gets broken. To girls who think it’s over. To real girls, to all girls: You’re beautiful.” ― Zayn Malik
“Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they’ve learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.” ― Greg Mortenson
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” ― Nora Ephron
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