Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tori Amos

Vulnerability can be empowering as a songwriter and storyteller.

Wayne Dyer

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Ruzwana Bashir

The roles that push you out of your comfort zones are the ones in which you learn a great deal and really empower yourself.

Joey Cheek

I wanted to make it meaningful. It's empowering to think of someone else.

Evan Rachel Wood

Authentic and free. The Gucci guilty woman is about living in the moment. She's a modern woman, someone who really owns herself and her sensuality. It's supposed to be a very empowering and sensual fragrance.

Julia Cameron

What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?

Preneet Kaur

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

Kenny Marchant

Unfortunately a Constitutional amendment that would have empowered Congress to make desecration of the United States flag illegal failed to pass by one vote.

Sheryl WuDunn

Women are not the problem they're the solution

Roger Wyer

Joy is here now. We don't have to wait for the weekend.

Ron Wistrom

He was exasperating at times, but he was always a joy.

Rob Halford

It's a joy to actually be able to control your own music.

Ronnie Barker

To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male Choir is the best in choral singing. How then can they be described except in superlatives? They are without equal.

Rex Stout

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

William Wordsworth

And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore.

Sara Zarr

The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed beyond her grasp. Sometimes only by a little, like now. The thinnest membrane. Usually, though, by miles. She couldn’t expect to be that kind of happy all the time. She knew that. But sometimes you could. Sometimes you should be allowed a tiny bit of joy that should stay with you for more than five minutes. That wasn’t too much to ask. To have a moment like this, and be able to hold on to it. To cross that membrane, and feel alive.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Joy is your birthright.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Audre Lorde

pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

Audre Lorde

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.

Antonio Machado

The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.

Don DeLillo

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

Alison Bechdel

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

Anthony Burgess

I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.

Randy Harrison

I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.

Stephanie Mills

Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer and our needs plainer.

Steven Morrissey

I can get incredibly erotic about blotting paper.