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I reviewed the book here last month and now it’s time to give one of my lucky readers a chance to read it as well!
As this book had a lot to do with girl empowerment, to enter this contest you need to leave a comment with your e-mail address and what you think it means to be an empowered girl or a story about a time you felt empowered. It doesn’t have to be complicated or long; just tell me about a time you felt that “girl power” (Spice Girls, anyone?!)
I will pick my 3 favorite stories and post them on this blog along with my own empowered moment. The winner will be selected randomly from all of the entries using random.org.
This contest will close on April 3 at midnight EST and I will e-mail the winner soon after!
Good luck and can’t wait to read your stories!
The time I felt most empowered was when I realized it was time to put my own needs ahead of those of a person who didn't really appreciate me anyway. It was a big change in my life that was important.
I'd love to read this book.
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I feel empowered daily when I wake up and realize that though I'm really looking forward to finding The One — that elusive, fanastic "other piece" of my heart — I'm happy, successful and flourishing on my own! And when I look at my bank account and realize no one put that money there but yours truly, my sense of empowerment only grows. 🙂
Thanks Jess!
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The first moment I really felt empowered was when I finished reading CRANK by Ellen Hopkins. A moment later I punch out a good friend who kept offering me weed during school. I got suspended but she got jail time.
It was the first time I stood up for myself. I remember that every time I realize I'm not being true to myself.
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I felt empowered as a woman during my high school prom. I went from being the quiet geeky girl who got picked on all the time to being the bell of the ball after the crazy makeover and new dress I got for prom. I felt like Cinderella at first because I received a lot of new attention I wasn't really accustomed to getting. A couple of guys from my band class stopped me as I walked by and commented, "Jesus Christ, Why can't you like that all the time?" Instead of taking the backhanded insult, I raised my head, looked them in the eyes, and simply said, "Because then I'd have superficial jerks like you pestering me all the time," and then I walked off. I truly felt like an empowered woman, and realized I didn't need the make-up and fancy dress to be confident and sassy!
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I felt empowered today! I defended my Master's thesis last week, and today I filed it. It's over and done. After 2 years of work and 50 pages of poetry manuscript, the work is all paying off! 🙂
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I think being an empowered girl means standing up for what you believe in, even if you are the only one doing so. It means being confidant with who you are, and attempting to share that feeling with others. It means stepping out of your comfort zone, and taking a risk.
Thank you for the chance to win!
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Honestly, seeing The Lion King on Broadway empowered me. I became more enlightened, open minded, and free based on the experience.
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In my family, men are considered superior over women, which is why my parents play favorites. I've always wanted to tell my parents that they should stop this particular view in life of theirs but never had the strength to, until recently when I found the strength to tell what I really feel, I think I've had enough of all of the inequality in the family and it's about time I speak up. That was the time I really felt empowered and it made me feel good to finally say what I felt inside.
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I felt empowered when I graduated from high school. I am the youngest of three children, and the only to graduate. I felt even more empowered when I was the first in my family to go to college. There was a time when only men went to college because woman were supposed to be in the home, im proud that I have futhered my education and will be able to support myself in this life. I think if it's possible, I will feel even more empowered when I go back to school this fall for another degree!
Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
Sherry
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Good question. The time I felt most empowered was when I first started my Vegan diet. That was the first time I felt like I could actually make a difference (no matter how small) in this huge world.
Thank you for your wonderful giveaway. My email:
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A time I felt most empowered was in my junior year of HighSchool after I got contacts and a makeover. Before that I was seen as just a brainy nerd. Afterwards, I was seen also as an attractive young woman.
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When my thesis was published and my scientist I-know-everything dad couldn't figure out what any of it meant. 🙂
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I feel empowered when I do something I really hadn't wanted to do and I go through and I learn everything will be alright and I can do anything even if it not my favorite thing. Enpowerment is good for anyone and gives you the confidence even if you may not always have it but you always learn from what you have done before.
Megan
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It's always empowering to do things that stereotypically, people may not expect females to do. Playing guitar, beating the guy jocks in phys. ed. class… always feels good.
PS The opening line – should that say "Kay Cassidy"'s book tour, rather than Daisy Whitney's?
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My most empowering moment was when I walked across the stage to received my BS in Education and looked up in the balcony and waved to my eleven year-old daughter and my ten year-old son. As a single mom graduating meant a better life for all of us.
I feel empowered when I finish a very long project or when I reach a difficult goal.
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