Policarpa Salavarrieta quotes

“Although I am a woman and young, I have more than enough courage to suffer this death and a thousand more.”
-- Policarpa Salavarrieta

#Suffering Quotes #Empowerment Quotes #Empowering Women Quotes

“We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.”

“I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.”

“Ecology more important than saving animals from slavery??? Humans suffer the raping of the earth but animals suffer DOUBLY: the raping of the earth PLUS their own raping by humans. They are innocent/they are not the ones who raped the earth/they enrich it for us all from the tiniest microscopic beings to the largest ones.”

“When you begin to become conscious, more aware, when your eyes begin to open, the first thing you see is how deluded you are and how much you're holding onto that which makes you suffer. This is, in many ways, the most important step: Are you willing to be aware?”

“TED-The Empowerment Dynamic-counteracts the poison of DDT, the Dreaded Dram Triangle. TED is the antidote for DDT.”

“The Net is the ultimate empowerment tool. You have the right to express your opinion to a global audience, but everyone has the right not to pay any attention to it.”

Source : Don Rittner (1999). “The IMac Book”, Coriolis Group

“Empowering women isn’t just the right thing to do - it’s the smart thing to do.”

“I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.”

“Societies that empower women are less violent in every way.”

“Politics is a potent way to empower women.”