No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
Wilkie CollinsTags: empowerment men women wit argument superiority dispute
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.
Charlotte BrontëTags: love empowerment gender women choice marriage storytelling inequality sarcasm irony discord courtship matrimony subjection disharmony
In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
AberjhaniTags: empowerment inspiration grace hope spirituality motivation television personal-growth philanthropy gratitude celebrities altruism coaching positive-motivation world-suicide-prevention-day famous-authors famous-poets oprah-winfrey blog-quotes quotes-by-aberjhani rare-personalities
If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...
William ShakespeareTags: happiness empowerment blessings freedom marriage self-determination independence husbands bachelorhood singles matrimony
Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me.
William ShakespeareTags: happiness love empowerment choice marriage pleasure self-determination independence marriage-proposal husbands courtship matrimony dignity wooing
As you change your point of view, your views bring about a change in you.
George AlexiouTags: inspirational love empowerment integrity change joy respect
How would your life be different if...You could control the outcome of your day, your week, your year? Let today be the day...You embrace the truth that you DO have such control to label every event in your life, and create an agreement with reality that empowers you and propels you to greatness.
Steve MaraboliTags: motivational life inspirational truth greatness empowerment control year label agreement-with-reality week
In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: individuality empowerment self-esteem solitude ataraxy self-respect self-determination self-reliance self-assurance independence self-awareness self-trust self-sufficiency self-containment
[F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., unmarried], which I assure you for my own part hath hitherto best contented myself and I trust hath been most acceptable to God. From the which if either ambition of high estate offered to me in marriage by the pleasure and appointment of my prince ... or if the eschewing of the danger of my enemies or the avoiding of the peril of death ... could have drawn or dissuaded me from this kind of life, I had not now remained in this estate wherein you see me. But so constant have I always continued in this determination ... yet is it most true that at this day I stand free from any other meaning that either I have had in times past or have at this present.
Queen Elizabeth ITags: empowerment women choice freedom contentment marriage self-determination independence bachelorhood singles matrimony dignity queens
There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.
Greta GarboTags: empowerment equality women freedom marriage self-determination self-reliance independence bachelorhood self-sufficiency singles matrimony submission preference
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