“One of the powerful things about the food issue is that people feel empowered by it. There are so many areas of our life where we feel powerless to change things, but your eating issues are really primal. You decide every day what you're going to put in your body and what you refuse to put in your body. That's politics at its most basic.” PeopleFeelsBodyPowerfulIssuesOur LivesEatingAreasRefuseYour BodyPowerlessEmpoweredPrimal Author:Michael Pollan
“We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.” BelieveGreaterOur LivesAlcoholSanityPowerless12 Step Recovery12 Step Author:Bill W.
“However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology, fate . . . until we can actually live in a society where mothers and children genuinely matter, ours is an essentially powerless responsibility. Mothers carry out most of the work orders, but most of the rules governing our lives are shaped by outside influences.” MayChildrenMatterMotherOrderCultureResponsibilityOur LivesFateInfluenceBiologyDedicatedPowerlessGoverningDiligentMother And ChildOutside Influences Author:Mary Blakely
“To face the realities of our lives is not a reason for despair-despair is a tool of your enemies. Facing the realities of our lives gives us motivation for action. For you are not powerless... You know why the hard questions must be asked. It is not altruism, it is self-preservation-survival.” KnowsGivingSelfHardReasonRealityActionFacesLife IsMotivationEnemyOur LivesDespairSurvivalToolsAltruismPreservationPowerlessSelf PreservationHard Questions Author:Audre Lorde
“I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.” IfsInspirationalLooksDifferentInspirationOur LivesHairCircumstancesPowerless Author:Martha Beck
“We've all, at some point in our lives, been in a position where we have felt powerless.” FeltOur LivesPositionPowerless Author:Maggie Q