Women’s empowerment have taken center stage, the voices of remarkable women echo through the corridors of history. Women, from all walks of life, have made significant strides, broken barriers, and defied societal expectations. Their wisdom, resilience, and determination continue to inspire not only their fellow women but everyone who believes in the power of equality and empowerment.
In this blog post, we delve into a treasure trove of quotes that empower, uplift, and celebrate the strength of women, all spoken by women themselves. These quotes are not just words; they are a reflection of the indomitable spirit that courses through the veins of strong, determined women. Join us as we explore these words of wisdom and find inspiration in the voices of the women who have shaped our world and continue to inspire us today.
1. “There’s not a stratum of the world that doesn’t need girls. Maybe we’re devalued precisely because we’re so valuable. The world is too afraid of not being able to obtain and control us to respect our true worth.” — Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow
2. “I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.” — Michelle Obama
3. “Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.” — Adrienne Rich
4. “Women don’t need to find a voice, they have a voice, and they need to feel empowered to use it, and people need to be encouraged to listen.” – Meghan Markle
5. “A huge part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.” – Lena Dunham
6. “I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I’m right. I am just trying—trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.” ― Roxane Gay
7. “Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.”– Bethany Hamilton
8. “We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” — Gloria Steinem
9. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” — Tina Fey
10. “No woman should be told she can’t make decisions about her own body. When women’s rights are under attack, we fight back.” —Kamala Harris
11. “No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half its citizens” ― Michelle Obama
12. “There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” Michelle Obama
13. “I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I’m right. I am just trying—trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing while also being myself.” Roxane Gay
14. “When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.” — Roxane Gay, Bad Feminist
15. “When a woman is assaulted, one of the first questions people ask is, Did you say no? This question assumes that the answer was always yes, and that it is her job to revoke the agreement. To defuse the bomb she was given. But why are they allowed to touch us until we physically fight them off? Why is the door open until we have to slam it shut?” Chanel Miller
16. “No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.” ― Margaret Sanger
17. “Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.” — Tina Fey
18. “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”― Brigham Young
19. “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” – Ruth Gordon
20. “I don’t want to think about what I’m leaving. I just think about who I am every single day behind closed doors and behind cameras. And that’s what I focus on.” Serena Williams
21. “Hear me as a woman./Have me as your sister./On purpled battlefield breaking day,/So I might say our victory is just beginning,/See me as change,/Say I am movement,/That I am the year,/and I am the era/of the women.” Amanda Gorman
22. “‘It is impossible for you to do it,’ was the terrible verdict. ‘In the first place you are a woman and would need a protector, and even if it were possible for you to travel alone you would need to carry so much baggage that it would detain you in making rapid changes. Besides you speak nothing but English, so there is no use talking about it; no one but a man can do this.’ “‘Very well,’ I said angrily, ‘Start the man, and I’ll start the same day for some other newspaper and beat him.'” Nellie Bly
23. “When women lose themselves, the world loses its way. We do not need more selfless women. What we need right now is more women who have detoxed themselves so completely from the world’s expectations that they are full of nothing but themselves. What we need are women who are full of themselves. A woman who is full of herself knows and trusts herself enough to say and do what must be done. She lets the rest burn.” — Glennon Doyle
24. “A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts.” — Nancy Rathburn
25. The more I have spoken about feminism the more I have realized that fighting for women’s rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop. Emma Watson
26. “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.” ― Jane Austen
27. “Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” — Maya Angelou
28. “We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.” — Sheryl Sandberg
29. “Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” — Emily Dickinson
30. “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” — Lucille Ball
31. “I will not stay, not ever again — in a room or conversation or relationship or institution that requires me to abandon myself.” — Glennon Doyle
32. “Teach her that the idea of ‘gender roles’ is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. ‘Because you are a girl’ is never a reason for anything. Ever.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
33. I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. Maya Angelou
34. “My movement is my movement. When all the dust has settled on the groundbreaking-ness, I’m going to still be doing this. I’m not going to suddenly change. I’m going to still be telling my life story through music. And if that’s body-positive to you, amen. If that’s feminist to you, amen. If that’s pro-black to you, amen. Because ma’am, I’m all of those things.” Lizzo
35. “I am a woman with thoughts and questions and shit to say. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story—I will.” Amy Schumer
36. “I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” — Arianna Huffington
37. “It takes a little bit of bravery to step out, to be like, okay, I don’t look like anybody else around here. I am making the conscious decision to present myself the way I want to today.” — Hunter Schafer
38. “There is no force more powerful than a woman determined to rise.” — W.E.B. Dubois
39. “Imperfections are beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”– Marilyn Monroe
40. “I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.” – Malala Yousafzai
41. “There’s something so special about a woman who dominates in a man’s world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer.” ― Rihanna
42. “Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” — Harper Lee
43. “Women, whether subtly or vociferously, have always been a tremendous power in the destiny of the world.” — Eleanor Roosevelt, “It’s Up to the Women”
44. “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” – Audre Lorde
45. “Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
46. “When my daughters grow up and look at the trenches time will have dug on my forehead I want them to see the wars other women have fought so the lines of those after them wouldn’t be trenches, but poems” — Valentina Quarta, The Purpose Ladder
47. “They’ll tell you you’re too loud, that you need to wait your turn and ask the right people for permission. Do it anyway.” Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
48. “More than ever, I am aware of the need to support and celebrate each other. I like to believe I am part of a global support group network of 3.4 billion. Imagine: if you can fall back on the 3.5 billion sisters, and the many good men who are with us, what could we possibly not achieve?” – Nicole Kidman
49. “There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” ― Michelle Obama
50. “Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.”– Judy Garland
51. “A girl should be two things: Who and what she wants.” — Coco Chanel
52. “Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.” — Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own