Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.
Suze OrmanRead
We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.
Interpretation
Women often prioritize the needs of others over their own, neglecting self-care.
Suze Orman's quote highlights the common tendency among women to take care of everyone around them while sacrificing their own well-being. It serves as a reminder that self-care is crucial, and that neglecting oneself can be detrimental, emphasizing the importance of finding balance between caring for others and caring for oneself.
In practice
In a women's empowerment seminar to encourage attendees to prioritize their own needs.
Many people are in the dark when it comes to money, and I'm going to turn on the lights.
Bad debt is sacrificing your future day needs for your present day desires.
We are all powerless as children, and money looms so powerfully... we don't grow up to claim our financial power until we look money directly in the eye, face our fears, and claim that power back.
Owning a home is a keystone of wealth - both financial affluence and emotional security.
Believing you are worthy of love means that you believe I deserve to be treated well - with respect and dignity. I deserve to be cherished and adored by someone. I am worthy of an intimate and fulfilling relationship. I won't settle for less than I deserve. I will do whatever it takes to create that for myself.
So many financial dreams are thwarted by the failure to act upon good intentions.
The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to prove them wrong and yourself right but how to communicate from the heart.
I don't dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it's gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin' White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It's connected to where you are today.
I think that the same kind of openness and fluidity and willingness to interrogate power that we, as feminists, expect from men in alliance on questions of class should also be the expectation that women of colour can rely upon with our white feminist allies.
It doesn't matter what the other is being, doing, having, saying, wanting, demanding. It doesn't matter what the other is thinking, expecting, planning. It only matters what you are being in relationship to that.
Even if a relationship is breakable, it doesnβt mean it isnβt worthwhile, beautiful, and all the things that we look for.
There are people who can walk away from you... let them walk. I don't want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you... Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left. And it doesn't mean that they are a bad person, it just means that their part in the story is over. And you've got to know when people's part in your story is over.
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