Empowerment Quotes

"Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot."

- Truman Capote

"Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for."

- Louisa May Alcott

"Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions. … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it."

- Tina Fey

"What I wanted most for my daughter was that she be able to soar confidently in her own sky, wherever that might be."

- Helen Claes

"Fly free, my daughter. Be what I could never be and leave the cage forever."

- Nalini Singh

"I hope that my daughter grows up empowered and doesn’t define herself by the way she looks but by qualities that make her an intelligent, strong, and responsible woman."

- Isaiah Mustafa

"You’ve got this. Most of the time, the challenges you face are those you were already built to handle."

- Gladiator

"We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody’s."

- Kifah Shah

"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."

- Roy T. Bennett

""The good thing about getting older is if you don’t want to do something you can say, I’m too old to do that!""

- Kate Summers

"birth is not only about making babies. birth is about making mothers...strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength."

- Barbara Katz Rothman

"if a doula were a drug, it would be unethical not to use it."

- John H. Kennell, MD

"the knowledge of how to give birth without outside interventions lies deep within each woman. successful childbirth depends on the acceptance of the process."

- Suzanne Arms

"there is power that comes to women when they give birth. they don't ask for it, it simply invades them. accumulates like clouds on the horizon and passes through, carrying the child with it."

- Sheryl Feldman

"Birth isn’t something we suffer, but something we actively do and exult in."

- Sheila Kitzinger

"A strong intention, a relaxed body and an open mind are the main ingredients for an active birth."

- Janet Balaskas

"Giving birth should be your greatest achievement, not your greatest fear."

- Jane Weideman

"There is power that comes to women when they give birth. They don’t ask for it, it simply invades them. Accumulates like clouds on the horizon and passes through, carrying the child with it."

- Sheryl Feldman

"If a doula were a drug, it would be unethical not to use it."

- John H. Kennell, MD

"The skill of being with women in pain in labour often rests in believing in women when they do not believe in themselves."

- Nicky Leaf

"When enough women realize that birth is a time of great opportunity to get in touch with their true power, and when they are willing to assume responsibility for this, we will reclaim the power of birth and help move technology where it belongs–in the service of birthing women, not their master."

- Christiane Northrup

"I think one of the best things we could do would be to help women/parents/families discover their own birth power, from within themselves. And to let them know it’s always been there, they just needed to tap into it."

- John H. Kennell, MD

"A woman in birth is at once her most powerful, and most vulnerable. But any woman who has birthed unhindered understands that we are stronger than we know."

- Marcie Macari

"Birth should not be a time in a woman’s life when she has to FIGHT for anything."

- Carla Hartley

"Respecting the woman as an important and valuable human being and making certain that the woman’s experience while giving birth is fulfilling and empowering is not just a nice extra, it is absolutely essential as it makes the woman strong and therefore makes society strong."

- Marsden Wagner

"Although the popularly desired outcome is ‘healthy mother, healthy baby,’ I think there is room in that equation for ‘happy, non-traumatized, empowered and elated mother and baby.’"

- Midwifery Today

"Mothers need to know that their care and their choices won’t be compromised by birth politics."

- Jennifer Rosenberg

"Only with trust, faith, and support can the woman allow the birth experience to enlighten and empower her."

- Annie Kennedy and Penny Simkin

"Labor is not about dilation. Your body knows how to give birth whether or not you ever have a pelvic exam during labor. Birthing women need encouragement to trust their bodies, and to be the stars of their own labors."

- The Doula Guide to Birth

"You are a birth servant. Do good without show or fuss. If you must take the lead, lead so that the mother is helped, yet still free and in charge. When the baby is born, they will rightly say: ‘We did it ourselves!'"

- Tao Te Ching