Molly Antopol

The idea that we should write towards the unknown aspects of our experience was totally groundbreaking for me. It gave me the license I needed to try to write outside myself. This attitude has deeply informed my approach to fiction, emboldening me to write characters with voices or situations that are vastly different from my own.

American Writer

Tim O'Brien

Stories can encourage us and embolden us to face ourselves and to feel. Stories can make us feel less alone. If we're reading a story that moves us, we can feel that emotion that I feel towards my father or mother or girlfriend. So they can give us late-night company.

American Author

Lisa Madigan

While I have supported marriage equality since my days as a state senator over a decade ago, I have since conducted an extensive legal analysis that has only emboldened my support as attorney general.

American Public Servant

Lucy Dacus

There's a lot of art that's about loss and sadness, but I would love it if hopefulness were more of a cliche. That's the work that always sticks with me and emboldens me in life.

American Musician

Edmund Phelps

With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders.

American Economist

Jack Keane

Frankly, our adversaries are emboldened by the lack of American leadership in the world, and our friends and our allies, they have lost trust in us.

American General

Richard Grenell

Hesitating and hand-wringing when confronted by violence discourages the human-rights activists on the front lines and emboldens the enemy.

American Diplomat

Frank Ocean

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, 'No, I'm just going to write what I feel I should write.

Andrzej Duda

Closing one's eyes is not a recipe for peace. It is a simple way to embolden aggressive personalities.

Polish Politician

Ann Coulter

I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.

American Journalist

Embolden frequently relates to taking positive steps or actions due to newfound confidence.

Positive Action

Embolden often implies that something or someone else has provided the confidence.

External Influence

Used when facing challenges or risks, suggesting bravery is involved.

Context of Challenge

 then you've figured out that you don't need the bank, and who wants the bank, right? And so, that experience tends to embolden you it tends to make you want more participation across more aspects of your life. And what this gives rise to is a set of values. We talked about the models that new power has engendered —

Jeremy Heimans: What new...

 who have been sold this lie that family and matrimony is antithetical to who they are -- for those of us who rarely get to see ourselves reflected in love and happiness. And the thing is, absolutely we are marginalized because of our identities, but it also emboldens us to be the people that we are.

A queer vision of love...

 of necessarily talking to adversaries on their own without us creating a space for that to happen, for having respect for dignity, and for bringing that combination of humility and a sort of emboldened sense of responsibility to our dealings with the rest of the world.

Samantha Power: Shaking...

 I said, "Your honor," and I don't know whether I was emboldened by the scientific measurements that I had in my pocket and my knowledge that they are accurate, or whether it was just sheer stupidity, which is what the defense lawyers thought — — when they heard me say,

Scott Fraser: The...

 fiddling with the mysterious ring when, suddenly, after absentmindedly twirling its stone, he became invisible. When he turned the stone back in the opposite direction, he reappeared. Emboldened by the ring’s powers, new possibilities bloomed before him,

The original ring of...

 reacting to this and after he looked at this reenactment he turned to me and he says is there anything else you want me to look at I said your honor and I don't know whether I was emboldened by the scientific measurements that I had in my pocket and

Why eyewitnesses get it...

 actually emboldened me in a way I have never been emboldened. That shattering, that opening of my girl cell, that kind of massive breakthrough of my heart allowed me to become more courageous, and braver, and actually more clever

Eve Ensler: Embrace your...

 be careful put the roof on and now here we are in the beautiful beautiful afternoon there's very humid today said had the feeling rain was on the way but well if anything humidity is only embolden to these youngsters who just

Safari Live - Day 320 PIPE...

 asked me to join a team of individuals to be a part of fulfilling this extraordinary dream her dream Mandela's dream through a new city that they call a city for tomorrow emboldened by Mandela's sacrifice and strengthened

Building a city for the...

 That's why I spend my time teaching, preaching and practicing democracy. I have no illusions. All around the world now, people are doubting whether democracy can deliver. Autocrats and demagogues seem emboldened,