female empowerment – Page 23 – The Gloria Sirens

What She Said, April 30: Edna St. Vincent Millay

What should I be but just what I am?
– Edna St. Vincent Millay

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.
– Jane Hirshfield

There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.
– Joy Harjo

…if I were, even now, without either a dog or a horse in my keeping, I should feel I had lost contact with the earth.
– Beryl Markham

In a time of destruction, create something.
– Maxine Hong Kingston

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.
– Margaret Atwood

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.
-Lady Gaga

“Above all, be the heroine of your life. Not the victim.”
-Nora Ephron

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
-Virginia Woolf

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
-Alice Walker