140 Powerful Women’s Day Quotes and Sayings to Inspire You

Women’s Day 2024 is around the corner with March 8 approaching closer. Here are some Women’s Day Quotes in English from some of the most powerful women.

International Women’s Day is celebrated in many countries around the world. It is a day when women are recognized for their achievements without regard to divisions, whether national, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic, or political. International Womens Day is on Sunday, March 8th in 2023. It’s time to encourage and celebrate all the strong women in your life. To dedicate a perfect quote to the amazing women in your life, we’ve compiled some of our favorite inspirational women’s day quotes, and sayings (with images, greetings, and pictures) from successful women entrepreneurs, athletes, authors, leaders, innovators, activists, and more.

The day is celebrated to motivate women to make their way against all odds and challenge stereotypes, fight bias, improve situations and celebrate women’s achievements. Here are some powerful feminist quotes that you can dedicate to your incredible mom, supporting sister, or amazing girlfriend. #InspirationalWomensDayQuotes

These quotes are one way to celebrate Women’s Day and Women’s History Month at work or school. Here we go.

“Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book.” –Malala Yousafzai.
“There is no force more powerful than a woman determined to rise.” –W.E.B. Dubois
“There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” –Michelle Obama

FAMOUS WOMEN’S DAY QUOTES AND SAYINGS

“Let’s be proud to be born girls!”- Djingarey Maiga

“Never dull your shine for somebody else.”- Tyra Banks

“Where there is a woman, there is magic.”- Ntozake Shange

“Women are made to be loved, not understood.”- Oscar Wilde

“A woman walks in her footsteps rather than following the direction shown by the crowd.” – Unknown

“Well-behaved women rarely make history.”- Eleanor Roosevelt

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”- Coco Chanel

“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”- Virginia Woolf

Best Womens Day Quotes

“The best way to change society and the underlying issues is to channelize the power of a woman in every walk of life.” – Unknown

“Women are the real architects of society”- Harriet Beecher Stowe

“One is not born a woman, one becomes one.”- Simone de Beauvoir

“The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.”- Beyonce

“Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.” – Coco Chanel

“Don’t be the girl who fell. Be the girl who got back up.”- Jenette Stanley

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“I don’t know a woman alive who isn’t courageous.”- Reese Witherspoon

“A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.”-Melinda Gates

“I think the key is for women not to set any limits” – Martina Navratilova

International Women’s Day Quotes

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” – Marilyn Monroe

“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry” – Gloria Steinem

“There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.”-Michelle Obama

“A man’s manhood is reflected in the way, he treats all the women in his life!” – Unknown

“A charming woman doesn’t follow the crowd. She is herself.”- Loretta Young

“The guess, a woman makes is much more accurate than the certainty a man asserts.” – Unknown

“What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.”- Mark Twain

“I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that’s me.”- Maya Angelou

“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Happy Womens Day Quotes

“If you want to get a plan, go to a man but if you want it to be done, go to a woman.” – Unknown

“A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty.”- Rudyard Kipling

“I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.”- Mary Shelley

“You have what it takes to be a victorious, independent, fearless woman.”- Tyra Banks

“A woman performs all the duties of a man but a man cannot do all that a woman can do.” – Unknown

“As soon as I had enough agency in my life to grow up, I became who I am.”-Janet Mock

“Yes, I am a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted, and tough.”- Zaha Hadid

“Women are the mammoth reservoir of power and talent which has yet not been tapped.” – Unknown

“Extremists have shown what frightens them most: a girl with a book” – MalalaYousafzai

“Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity” – Mahatma Gandhi

Strong Womens Day Quotes

“Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.”- Hillary Clinton

“Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world” – Hillary Rodham Clinton

“I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.”- Marilyn Monroe

“A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.”- Rhonda Hansome

“Find something you’re passionate about and stay tremendously interested in it” – Julia Child

“I think a girl can do anything! She just needs to believe in herself.”- Elvira Meliksetyan

“Had the woman community not been there, money would have been meaningless.” – Unknown

“As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world” – Virginia Woolf

“I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.”- Maya Angelou

“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” – Roseanne Barr

Unique Happy Women’s Day Quotes

“I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.” – Heinrich Heine

“For me, my message- It’s a tagline- consider women! That’s all it is.”- Shyamala Gomez

“A woman is like a teabag – you never how strong she is until she gets in hot water” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman” – Margaret Thatcher

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness.”- Oprah

“Empower women, empower the human community. The base on which the world stands is a woman.” – Unknown

“A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” – Diane Mariechild

“Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.”- Joseph Conrad

“Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse” – Golda Meir

“A woman is born with the power to save and love, her existence is based on the truthfulness in her eyes.” – Unknown

“A woman in any form shall be celebrated and honored, be it, a sister or a wife or a mother or any other form.” – Unknown

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”- Oprah Winfrey

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”- Brigham Young

“I call on everyone to lend their voice, their time, their energy to win this fight against child marriage.”- Rebeca Gyumi

“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”- Judy Garland

Women’s Day Quotes One Liners

“Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you.”- Viola Davis

“What women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don’t have, is just love what we do have.”- Cameron Diaz

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”- Anais Nin

“I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.”- Sofia Vergara

“Every woman’s success should be an inspiration to another. We’re strongest when we cheer each other on.”- Serena Williams

“A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”- Jane Austen

“We need to live in a culture that values and respects and looks up to and idolizes women as much as men.”- Emma Watson

“We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.”-Beyoncé

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You have to love yourself to get anything done in this world” – Lucille Ball

“I love women. They’re the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that’s fine” – Mel Gibson

“The history of all times and today especially, teaches that women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves” – Louise Otto

Respect Happy Womens Day Quotes

“In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.”- Hillary Clinton

“God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met” – Farrah Fawcett

“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

“Women, from time immemorial, have fought for the right of others, now it’s her time to get her rights realized and get equal participation in society.” – Unknown

“Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.”- G.D. Anderson

“Women must have the freedom to make decisions related to our lives, our bodies. Our lives are valuable and to be respected by others.”- Morena Herrera

“Women need to be considered as human beings, first, foremost. We should have equal rights, and security, and safety, and well-being.”- Maheen Sultan

“Women and girls are the faces of global wars. However, they have hope- hope for a better life, and determination to work towards a peaceful world.”- Juliet Were

“Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us” – Christabel Pankhurst

Womens Day Messages

“There is only one thing in the Universe which a woman still needs to learn and that one thing is that, ‘she has the power to turn the direction of the wind on her own’.” – Unknown

“Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.”- George Carlin

“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size.”- Virginia Woolf

“Be a queen when you think, be a queen when you decide, no one has the power to defeat the tremendous power inside a woman! Her strength can cross any hurdle in her life!!” – Unknown

“A strong woman is the one who can dare to raise her voice for the cause she believes in, and this strength lives in a corner in every women’s heart, it just needs to be searched.” – Unknown

“A woman should be taught to believe in protecting herself on her own and not to depend on a man for her protection. She has the power to protect the world and not just herself.” – Unknown

“We are cute daughters, we are sweet sisters, we are lovely lovers, we are darling wives, we are adorable mothers, we are a source of strength, we are WOMEN! Happy Women’s Day” – Unknown

“Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out.” – Anita Roddick

“Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race” – Mary McLeod Bethune

Women’s Day Empowering Quotes

“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes.” – Clare Boothe Luc

“I have seen women living through the worst, the best, the hardest conditions. Their courage to work, their confidence, their willingness to fight-that keeps me going.”- Bishnu Maya Gharti

“No matter where you go, you can encounter the power of a woman, she runs a company most efficiently, and she raises her children in a way that nobody ever can think of doing!” – Unknown

“A strong woman understands that 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

“I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.”- Louisa May Alcott

Positive Happy Women’s Day Quotes

“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

“Let’s rejoice ourselves being Women. Most beautiful of God,s creation. Who knows the art of living n loving? Keep smiling.. the world is dreamland… Women,s day… A day reminds me. .u r always special.” – Unknown

“They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me, a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation” – Oliver Goldsmith

One powerful being of society is a woman who is educated and has the power to spread awareness in the society.” An educated woman is the one who frightens the advocators of taboos and stereotypes that exist in society.” – Unknown

“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

“Women are leaders everywhere you look — from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes” – Nancy Pelosi

INSPIRATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY PICTURES QUOTES AND IMAGES

Here are some of the best women’s day greetings which you can send to the strongest women in your life who have been with you as a rock in all situations of life.