Quotes To Empower Women

Quotes To Empower Women: Whether you’re feeling down or need a little additional motivation to keep up with your 2021 objectives, we’ve got you covered. No matter what’s going on, there’s no substitute for an inspirational quotes from some of the most powerful women in history.

Women from all areas of life have the power to inspire. More and more women are realizing that supporting one another is essential to achieving success in any industry. As a group, these ladies also recognize the importance of encouraging one another to tackle their fears head-on.

If you’re looking for a way to honor the women in your life, look no further. To help you discover the proper words, we’ve compiled a collection of inspiring quotes to empower women. You may devote and celebrate the powerful women in your life by finding the ideal phrase to dedicate and honor them here.

Quotes To Empower Women

“To all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful, and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.”
Hillary Clinton

I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. … We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.
Malala Yousafzai

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

“I’m tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.” Madonna

“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” Madeleine Albright

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

Women are always saying, ‘We can do anything that men can do.’ But men should be saying, ‘We can do anything that women can do.’ Gloria Steinem

“I am a woman / Phenomenally / Phenomenal woman / That’s me.” Maya Angelou

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. … It shouldn’t be that women are the exception. Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female.'” Erin McKean

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

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” Gloria Steinem

“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

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

“When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man; when a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.” Bette Davis

“I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.” Diane von Furstenberg

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” Audre Lorde

“When there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit. So let’s keep going—let’s keep going until every one of the 161 million women and girls across America has the opportunity she deserves to have.” Hillary Clinton

“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

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

“Words have power. TV has power. My pen has power.” Shonda Rhimes

“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

“Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I’m well aware of, but that’s just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history—empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves.” Hillary Clinton

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

“Women must learn to play the game as men do.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“You could make a case that, along with the technological revolution, the most provocative upending destabilizing thrilling change in the course of human history is that we’re finally in it. … We’re here now, women are in the world, and we will not be bullied.” Meryl Streep

Personal Quotes To Empowerment Women

“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 will be hidden no more. We will not remain hidden figures. We have names. … It was woman that gave you Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was woman that gave you Malcolm X. And according to the Bible, it was a woman that gave you Jesus. Don’t you ever forget it.” Janelle Monáe

“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

“For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious—or whatever we please. We are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution. Naomi Wolf

“I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak.” Harriet Beecher Stowe

“In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.” Sheryl Sandberg

“Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all.” Hillary Clinton

“Women’s freedom is the sign of social freedom.” Rosa Luxemburg

“Women’s speech—and the fact that we are now listening to it—has enraged men in a way that makes them determined to reëstablish the longstanding hierarchy of power in America. … And yet this awful truth will not stop women from speaking, and I do not think that it will turn a movement into a moment. It has become clear that there is not nearly enough left to lose.” Jia Tolentino

Justice is about making sure that being polite is not the same thing as being quiet. In fact, often times, the most righteous thing you can do is shake the table. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

“They cannot stand that a refugee, a black woman, an immigrant, a Muslim, shows up in Congress thinking she’s equal to them. But I say to them, ‘How else did you expect me to show up?'” Ilhan Omar

“Women have discovered that they cannot rely on men’s chivalry to give them justice.” Helen Keller

“Maybe it just boils down to: I’m a woman who’s really into her career, so I’m obsessed with the craft of my work. … There’s a romance in that for me.”
Mitski

“In my opinion, the most exciting potential of women of color formations resides in the possibility of politicizing this identity—basing the identity on politics rather than the politics on identity.” Angela Davis

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” Toni Morrison

“I have sometimes thought that a woman’s nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawingroom, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes.” Edith Wharton

“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” Arundhati Roy

“‘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

“I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.” Jane Austen

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe you must become its soul. Coretta Scott King

“Around the world there are countless examples of women rising, taking leadership, taking their destiny into their own hands, inspiring all of us. But women and girls are still the majority of the victims of war. They are over half of all refugees, and the vast majority of the victims of rape and other sexual and gender-based violence.” Angelina Jolie

“That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?” Sojourner Truth

“More and more women are realizing that only collective strength and action will allow us to be free to fight for the kind of society that meets basic human needs.” Roxanne Dunbar

“Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women’s liberation … none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.” Barbara Ehrenreich

“By propagating women’s nature as non-violent they are discouraging women from becoming fighters in the struggle for their own liberation and that of society.” Anuradha Ghandy

Quotes To Empowerment Women  In English

“I think transwomen, and trans people in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you’re supposed to be to live a more authentic life.” Laverne Cox

“Black women have had to develop a larger vision of our society than perhaps any other group. They have had to understand white men, white women, and black men. And they have had to understand themselves. When black women win victories, it is a boost for virtually every segment of society.” Angela Davis

“For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.” Audre Lorde

“A revolutionary woman can’t have no reactionary man.” Assata Shakur

“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

“There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” Virginia Woolf

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”- Estée Lauder

“Drama is very important in life: You have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper.” – Julia Child

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

“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

“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” – Arianna Huffington

“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.” – Coco Chanel

“I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.” – Marissa Mayer

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel

“No one ever became a success without taking chances… One must be able to recognize the moment and seize it without delay.” – Estée Lauder

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

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

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West

“If you’re one of those people who has that little voice in the back of her mind saying, ‘Maybe I could do [fill in the blank],’ don’t tell it to be quiet. Give it a little room to grow, and try to find an environment it can grow in.” – Reese Witherspoon

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

“Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist.” – Margaret Cho

“I’ve interviewed and portrayed people who’ve withstood some of the ugliest things life can throw at you, but the one quality all of them seem to share is an ability to maintain hope for a brighter morning, even during our darkest nights.” – Oprah Winfrey

“I found that ultimately if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in — even if it makes you vulnerable — amazing things can and will happen.” – Emma Watson

“If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don’t, that’s wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don’t shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surface to what it is all really about, and I wish people wouldn’t get caught up in that. We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop. Women should feel free.” – Emma Watson

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!” – Dolly Parton

“In life there is no real safety except for self-belief.” – Madonna

“Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That’s my life motto.” – Demi Lovato

“Women have to harness their power—it’s absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take the first no. And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.” – Cher

“I’m learning how to drown out the constant noise that is such an inseparable part of my life. I don’t have to prove anything to anyone. I only have to follow my heart and concentrate on what I want to say to the world. I run my world.” – Beyoncé

“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

“As women, we have to start appreciating our own worth and each other’s worth. Seek out strong women to befriend, to align yourself with, to learn from, to collaborate with, to be inspired by, to support, and enlightened by.” – Madonna

Inspirational Quotes To Empower Women 

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.” – Michelle Obama

“With each generation, women’s ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn’t mean everything is perfect or that our work is finished.” – Cathy McMorris Rodgers

“To all the little girls who are watching, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.” – Hillary Clinton

“Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.” – Susana Martinez

“I think that passion is the secret ingredient that drives hard work and excellence.” – Kelly Ayotte

“Some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference. That is just not true. Often, the best thing we can do is turn down the volume. When the sound is quieter, you can actually hear what someone else is saying. And that can make a world of difference.” – Nikki Haley

“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” – Madeleine Albright

“You could certainly say that I’ve never underestimated myself. There’s nothing wrong with being ambitious.” – Angela Merkel

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

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” – Nora Ephron

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin

“There is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” – Jane Austen

“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

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” – J.K. Rowling

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou

“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

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style” – Maya Angelou

“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

“You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female.’” – Erin McKean

“You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you.” – Katie Couric

“Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.” – Gloria Steinem

“I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.” – Malala Yousafzai

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” – Audre Lord

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem

“We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave – to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential. ” – Malala Yousafzai

“To all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful, and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.” — Hillary Clinton

“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” — Arianna Huffington

“I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.” — Tina Fey

“No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.” — Billie Jean King

Strong Quotes T0

“You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general.

Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female.’” — Erin McKean

“I’m always perpetually out of my comfort zone.” — Tory Burch

“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.” ― Irina Dunn

“I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“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

Short Quotes To Empower Women 

“I believe the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.” – Hillary Clinton

“Women have to harness their power—it’s absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take the first ‘no’. And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.” – Cher

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

“A woman is like a tea bag—you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger.” — Mia Hamm

“If you’re someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that’s a sign of a life lived honorably.” — Rachel Maddow

“Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.” — Marianne Williamson

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” — Gloria Steinem

“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

“We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.” – Malala Yousafzai

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

“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

“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” — Florence Nightingale

“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

“You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” — Tina Fey

“This is your moment. Own it.” — Oprah Winfrey

“My coach said I run like a girl. And I said if he ran a little faster, he could too.” – Mia Hamm

“In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.”— Sheryl Sandberg

“I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.” -Jane Austen

“Girls should never be afraid to be smart.” ― Emma Watson

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” — Mary Anne Radmacher

“Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” – Ruth Gordon

“Here’s my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it’s important to be a feminist. It’s important to have female characters. It’s wonderful for women to mentor other women, but it’s just as important for women to mentor men and vice-versa.” — Mindy Kaling

“Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” — Anne Lamott

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

“I want women’s rights to be equally honored, and uplifted, and heard…but I want to see us fighting the fight for all women — women of color, our LGBTQ sisters, our Muslim sisters. I want to see millions of us marching out there for our rights, and I want to see us out there marching for the rights of women like Dajerria Becton, who was body slammed by a cop while she was in her swimsuit for simply existing as a young, vocal, black girl. I think we are inching closer and closer there, and for that, I am very proud.” – Solange Knowles

. “I don’t like the marginalization of women when the fighting breaks out. We get to fight too.” — J.K. Rowling

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself”– Simone de Beauvoir

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”— Estée Lauder

“Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.” — Helena Rubinstein

“All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can’t bat a thousand all the time.” — Julie Andrews

“I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.” — Meryl Streep

“A girl should be two things: Who and what she wants.” — Coco Chanel

“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

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

“The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.” — Barbara Corcoran

“I’m a feminist. I’ve been a female for a long time now. It’d be stupid not to be on my own side.” – Maya Angelou

When I’m tired, I rest. I say, ‘I can’t be a superwoman today.’” — Jada Pinkett Smith

“If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love.” — Princess Diana

“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations can never effect a reform.” —Susan B. Anthony

“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

“Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” — Harper Lee

“I’m learning how to drown out the constant noise that is such an inseparable part of my life. I don’t have to prove anything to anyone. I only have to follow my heart and concentrate on what I want to say to the world. I run my world.” – Beyoncé

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Feminism is about giving women choice. Feminism is not a stick with which to beat other women with.” – Emma Watson

“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” — Lucille Ball

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.” – Michelle Obama

“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” — Madeleine Albright

“You could certainly say that I’ve never underestimated myself. There’s nothing wrong with being ambitious.” – Angela Merkel

“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

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

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” – Nora Ephron

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin

“If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” — Erica Jong

“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” – Audre Lorde

“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

 supporting  Quotes To Empower Women 

“I am not ashamed to dress ‘like a woman’ because I don’t think it’s shameful to be a woman.” – Iggy Pop

“There is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” – Jane Austen

“Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else.”– Judy Garland

“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

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” – J.K. Rowling

“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant to be your own person, be independent.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“[Unlikeable women] accept the consequences of their choices, and those consequences become stories worth reading.” – Roxane Gay

“You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you.” – Katie Couric

“One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do, to keep learning.” —Ruth Reichl

“Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.” – Maya Angelou

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

“A huge part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.” – Lena Dunham

“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

“Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.”– Bethany Hamilton

“Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.” – Gloria Steinem

“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

“I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.” – Malala Yousafzai

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

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” — Amelia Earhart

“Women, we endure those cuts in so many ways that we don’t even notice we’re cut. We are living with small tiny cuts, and we are bleeding every single day. And we’re still getting up.” – Michelle Obama

“I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.” – Emma Stone

“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

“Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you’re in a relationship with. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that’s the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self because with that, you can do anything else.” — Angelina Jolie

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” — Ella Fitzgerald

“A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.” — Madonna

Strong Quotes To Empower Women

“Feminism is not just about women; it’s about letting all people lead fuller lives.” – Jane Fonda

“Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.” — Diana Ross

“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant to be your own person, be independent.” —

“I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.” — Marissa Mayer

“I hope that my presence on your screen and my face in magazines may lead you young girls on a beautiful journey, that you will feel validation of your external beauty, but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside.’ — Lupita Nyong’o

“Feminism is not dead, by no means. It has evolved. If you don’t like the term, change it for Goddess’ sake. Call it Aphrodite, or Venus, or bimbo, or whatever you want; the name doesn’t matter, as long as we understand what it is about, and we support it.” — Isabel Allende

‘We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons, but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” — Gloria Steinem

“You deserve to be here. You deserve to exist. You deserve to take up space in this world of men.” — MacKenzi Lee

“When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone.” — Melissa McCarthy

‘Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” — Marie Curie

“Feminism is the radical notion that women are people.” — Marie Shear

“Feminism is not a dirty word. It does not mean you hate men. It does not mean you hate girls that have nice legs and a tan, and it does not mean you are a bitch or a dyke, it means you believe in equality.” — Kate Nash

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” — Margaret Atwood

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” — Jane Goodall

“We need to encourage girls that their voice matters. I think there are hundreds and thousands of Malalas out there.” — Malala Yousafzai

“I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.” — Hoda Kotb

“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.”– Kavita Ramdas

“Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” — Helen Keller

“Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.” — Emily Dickinson

“I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.” — Dolly Parton

“I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” — Louise Hay

“It’s hard not to be a fighter when you’re constantly under siege.” — Cassandra Duffy

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

“We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.” — Maya Angelou

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” — Mother Teresa

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.” — Melissa Etheridge

“I always thought that people told you that you’re beautiful–that this was a title that was bestowed upon you … I think that it’s time to take this power into our own hands and to say, ‘You know what? I’m beautiful. I just am. And that’s my light. I’m just a beautiful woman.’ — Margaret Cho

“Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Imperfections are beauty, madness is genius, and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”– Marilyn Monroe

“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

“Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” — Jennifer Lopez

“The price way pay for being ourselves is worth it.” — Eartha Kitt

“The only thing required to be a woman is to identify as one.” — Amanda Lovelace

“What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy and smug they might be. Are you a feminist? Of course, you are.” —Caitlin MoranHere are three influential women on what they want girls everywhere to know!