Badass Affirmations: The Wit and Wisdom of Wild Women (Inspirational Quotes for Women, Book Gift for Women, Powerful Affirmations)
By Becca Anderson and Brenda Knight
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Badass Affirmations is full of positive affirmations, profiles of powerful real-life heroines, and inspirational quotes for women. Packed with just the right amount of sass, this book is the perfect women empowerment gift for you and all your fabulous BFFs.
Even a badass needs positive affirmations. No one leaps out of bed knowing they’re amazing and about to have an incredible day. We find ourselves rushing around, working hard to please others—and often we find ourselves making everyone happy but our own damn selves. Badass Affirmations is here to stop the negativity with positive quotes and affirmations from powerful women.
Discover strong women quotes and encouraging self-affirmations. In Badass Affirmations, positive living and affirmation queen Becca Anderson reminds you that you are pretty darn great. Inside this motivational quotes and affirmations book, you’ll be fired up by inspirational quotes for women, by women. Alongside these women empowerment quotes, you’ll gain new knowledge of the badass ladies who have left their mark on the world with a mix of short bios and longer profiles. And when you’re done learning from other fierce females, you can work on affirming yourself with uplifting journal prompts.
Read Badass Affirmations and:
- Learn the habit of affirming yourself daily
- Empower yourself and strengthen your self-esteem
- Be encouraged by words of wit and wisdom
Readers of affirmations books and positive quote books for women like Let That Sh*t Go, A Year of Positive Thinking, or Beautifully Said will love the inspirational quotes for women in Badass Affirmations.
Becca Anderson
Becca Anderson comes from a long line of preachers and teachers from Ohio and Kentucky. The teacher's side of her family led her to become a women's studies scholar and the author of The Book of Awesome Women. An avid collector of meditations, prayers and blessings, she helps run a “Gratitude and Grace Circle”' which meets at homes, churches and bookstores monthly in the San Francisco-Bay Area where she currently resides. Becca Anderson credits her spiritual practice with helping her recover from cancer and wants to share this with anyone who is facing difficulty in their life. Author of Think Happy to Stay Happy and Every Day Thankful, Becca Anderson shares her inspirational writings and suggested acts of kindness at https://thedailyinspoblog.wordpress.com/ She also blogs about Awesome Women, like those in her book Badass Affirmations, at https://theblogofawesomewomen.wordpress.com/
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Badass Affirmations - Becca Anderson
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Badass Affirmations: The Wit and Wisdom of Wild Women
ISBN: (h) 978-1-64250-798-0, (e) 978-1-63353-753-8
Library of Congress Control Number: 2021942877
BISAC: SEL004000 – SELF-HELP / Affirmations
Printed in the United States of America
Also by Becca Anderson
Badass Women Give the Best Advice: Everything You Need to Know About Love and Life
Real Life Mindfulness: Meditations for a Calm and Quiet Mind
Think Happy to Stay Happy: The Awesome Power of Learned Optimism
Prayers for Hard Times: Reflections, Meditations and Inspirations of Hope and Comfort
The Book of Awesome Women: Boundary Breakers, Freedom Fighters, Sheroes and Female Firsts
Every Day Thankful: 365 Blessings, Graces and Gratitudes
This book is dedicated to my sister,
who never ceases to inspire me.
This book is dedicated to my mother,
who taught me how to bounce back from a setback.
And this book is dedicated to you, dear reader,
for your possibilities are endless,
and you can do anything you set your mind to.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
All About Affirmations
There Is No Try
How to Use This Book
So What Are These Quotes For?
Journaling to Get You Started
Chapter One
What’s Wrong with Being Confident?
Suzanne Lenglen
Emma Goldman
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Chapter Two
All’s Fair in Love and Lust
Hannah Arendt
Maya Angelou
Joan Baez
Madonna
Gloria Steinem
Chapter Three
Stay Beautiful, Inside and Out
Aretha Franklin
Florence Griffith-Joyner
Chapter Four
Do You Work Here?
Harriet Tubman
Michelle Obama
Margaret Thatcher
Frida Kahlo
Indira Gandhi
Chapter Five
Ohana Means Family
Barbara Walters
Beyoncé
Chapter Six
You Are Unstoppable
Malala Yousafzai
Oprah Winfrey
Mae Jemison
Rosa Parks
Maxine Hong Kingston
Shirley Chisholm
Yoko Ono
Journaling
About the Author
Foreword
Women have so much to juggle in their lives: gender roles, physical and emotional labor, workplace expectations—the list goes on and on. Couple this with the constant barrage of mixed messages on having it all
and it should come as no surprise that women find it difficult to maintain healthy self-esteem. Women tend to experience a confidence gap
across professional and academic spheres, selling themselves short despite being more than capable of doing—even exceeding—the work. Why does this phenomenon persist?
Women need to be reminded of the strength they possess, and Badass Affirmations does exactly that! This book houses short biographies on inspirational women like Shirley Chisholm, Frida Kahlo, and Gloria Steinem, all of whom dealt with insurmountable odds to achieve success. There are also Affirmation Stations
chock full of quotes from women across history in all arenas: movies, music, politics, television, literature—you name it. These stories and quotations act as confidence catalysts for women looking to assert their power in any area of their life.
Badass Affirmations also leaves space for its readers to participate. After learning about the women highlighted in this book, you can take part in reclaiming your confidence by answering the journal prompts throughout the chapters. In doing so, you can both remind yourself of your strength and address areas in which you want to improve with a balanced approach to self-reflection.
Like her other work, Becca Anderson’s Badass Affirmations continues to dispel the notion that women are anything other than resilient. This book focuses on uplifting women’s stories while also making space for you to write your own. With Badass Affirmations, you’ll never doubt your own capabilities again.
—M.J. Fievre
Author of Badass Black Girl, Empowered Black Girl,
and Resilient Black Girl
Introduction
All About Affirmations
If you’re anything like me, there are always aspects of your life or your personality that you’re working to improve. After all, nobody’s perfect—that’s part of the beauty of life. We all make mistakes, we all have bad habits, we all make bad choices sometimes, and that’s okay. In fact, that’s great! But if you do want to continue learning and improving, it’s probably not a great idea to just keep doing the same thing you’ve been doing for years. It’s time to try something new.
This is where affirmations come in. Affirmations are positive statements that you make out loud, every day, to help you shift your mindset in a positive and productive way. These statements can be about literally anything. For example, if you are trying to increase your self-confidence, you could say something like, My self-confidence increases every day.
Or if, let’s say, you just had a bad breakup and you’re trying to shift your focus from your dating life (or lack thereof) to your career—then you could say to yourself, I will focus on improving my job prospects,
or, I am completely focused on my work.
It’s all about what changes you want to make—how you want to improve your mindset and, ultimately, your life.
Now, one of the main benefits of affirmations is that they help you to change how you think—over time. You won’t wake up one morning, say to yourself that you’re going to be happy from now on, and then have the best day of your life every day until you die. (Well, you probably won’t. Anyway—I suppose anything is possible.) But if you commit to taking five minutes of your morning to stand in front of the mirror, look yourself in the eye, and tell yourself that you are a beautiful, capable person who will achieve all she is working for, you’ll find that after a couple of weeks, you’re actually starting to believe yourself. Maybe you’ll stop cringing every time you look in the mirror, or maybe you’ll start to notice all of the small steps you’re making toward your big goals—the steps that have been made easier now that you know, and I mean really know, that you’re capable of anything you set your mind to.
Affirmations aren’t magic spells. You can’t just say that you’re going to advance in your career and sit in your chair staring at a blank computer screen every day—you have to work your ass off and take advantage of the chance opportunities that come around. You can’t just tell yourself that you’re going to love your family members better and then proceed to ignore them every time they come near—you have to actually listen when they talk and respond patiently and kindly. What I’m saying is, if you don’t follow up on your affirmations with actions, not much in your life will really change. I mean, it makes sense. Empty words are useless. But affirmations are the first step to a better morning, to an improved mindset—to a you that you actually like to be around.
Affirmation Station
Every chapter of this book is full of mini-sections I like to call Affirmation Stations. Each station has a few examples of affirmations that you can use to start your journey toward self-improvement.
Now, not every affirmation is for every person. If your goal is to be happy single, for example, you shouldn’t say, I will love my partner well
; rather, you should say, I am happy and excited to be independent.
If you want to change your career or find a new job, you shouldn’t say, I am happy at my job,
—you should say, I am capable of making positive changes.
My recommendation is to pull out your old highlighters or some colorful pens and mark the affirmations that you want to use. Find sticky notes in your favorite color and post some of them on your bathroom mirror, on the bottom edge of your computer screen, or on your fridge. Only use the ones that reflect your own goals. And keep this book in a place you pass by every day, so that