In the spirit of women empowerment, here are powerful quotes from some of the most brilliant women in film, music, politics, and business. Their goal is to encourage fellow women. If they made it, other women aspiring to succeed can also make it.
As you read the quotes, may your spirit awaken to new possibilities. May you believe in your abilities to grow and conquer anything you set your mind to achieve. May you become the woman you were designed to be.
The great revolutionists!
There is a reason quotes are loved. They are like thoroughly sharpened blades that cut through bone; teaching, provoking, reminding, reprimanding, and inspiring. They are the capsules whose dosage is a lifetime one if we are to cure shallow-mindedness and weary spirits when it comes to embracing possibility.
Mehmet Murat Ildan couldn't have put it any better: Minds of people need a good revolution, and great quotations are good revolutionists!
Now let's get to these female-powered quotes
"The thing women have yet to learn is that 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.
"Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong" – Emma Watson.
"A girl should be two things: who and what she wants." – Coco Chanel.
"The most common way that people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." – Alice Walker.
"The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." – Ayn Rand.
"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 rational they can be free." – Kevita Ramdas.
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.
"You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe" – Leymah Gbowee.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." – Nora Ephron.
"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.
"The challenge is not to be perfect. It's to be whole." – Jane Fonda.
"Fear is not a plan. Courage is a plan because courage is about our future." – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." – Eleanor Roosevelt.
"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.
"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito." – Anita Roddick.
"I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves "– Mary Shelley.
"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness." – Oprah Winfrey.
"I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist. "– Ginni Rometty.
"Getting past those labels, for me, was pretty much really easy because I define myself. No one can define you. Only you. "– Serena Williams.
"A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman." – Melinda Gates.
"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.
"There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish." – 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.
"We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead." – Beyoncé.
"In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders." – Sheryl Sandberg.
"Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women" – Maya Angelou.
"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another." –Toni Morrison.
"Do not wait for someone else to come and speak for you. It's you who can change the world" – Malala Yousafzai.
"Focus on your skills, whether it's working in a kitchen, working on a trading floor, running a household. You can go do anything." –Stacey Cunningham.
"Justice is about making sure that being polite is not the same thing as being quiet. In fact, oftentimes, the most righteous thing you can do is shake the table. – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
"The biggest barrier for women is the thought that they can't have it all. "– Cathy Engelbert.
"There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise" – W.E.B Dubois.
"What's the greatest lesson a woman should learn? That since day one, she's already had everything she needs within herself. It's the world that is convinced that she did not." – Rupi Kaur.
