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1 " When we disempower women we actually corrupt the world. "
2 " Self awareness is the key, and the first step in change. We cannot change our world or ourselves without the awareness of what needs to change. To shift the patterns that disempower you, you must get honest with yourself and become aware of what they are. "
3 " You can't get reconciliation between the powerful and powerless unless you disempower the powerful. "
4 " Forgiveness is the best way to disempower the enemy. "
5 " Forgiveness is the best way to disempower an enemy. "
― Gift Gugu Mona
6 " Too many of us now allow ourselves to be defined by motherhood and direct every ounce of our energy into our children. This sounds noble on the surface but in fact it's doing no one-- not ourselves, or our children -- any good. Because when we lose ourselves in our mommy selves, we experience this loss as depression. When we disempower ourselves in our mommy selves, we experience this weakness as anxiety. When we desexualize ourselves in our mommy selves, it leads us to feel dead in our skin. All this places an undue burden upon our children. By making them the be-all-and-end-all of our lives, by breaking down the boundaries between ourselves and them so thoroughly, by giving them so much power within the family when they're very small, we risk overwhelming them psychologically and ill-preparing them, socially, for the world of other children and, eventually, other adults. Nursery school and kindergarten teachers are already complaining that our children are so indulged, made so royal at home, that they come to school lacking compassion for others and with real problems functioning socially. "
― Judith Warner , Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety
7 " We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else. "
― Terence McKenna
8 " We will empower patients as well as health professionals. We will disempower the hierarchy and bureaucracy. "
