49+ Strong Women Quotes in 2025

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

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.

Betty Friedan

What if the things that have caused the most hurt in your life became the birthplaces of your deepest passions?

Jennie Allen

The most courageous act is to think for yourself. Aloud.

Coco Chanel

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

Gender is not an easy conversation to have. It makes people uncomfortable, sometimes even irritable. Both men and women are resistant to talk about gender or are quick to dismiss the problems of gender. Because thinking of changing the status quo is always uncomfortable.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

Barbara Corcoran

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

Beyoncé

I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I’m able to compete in?

Mindy Kaling

Feminism is not just about women; it’s about letting all people lead fuller lives.

Jane Fonda

Empowering women isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s the smart thing to do.

Barack Obama

A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.

Diane Mariechild

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.

Mahatma Gandhi

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

Brené Brown

The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

 Ayn Rand

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

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

Ruth Gordon

To tell a woman everything she cannot do is to tell her what she can.

Spanish Proverb

It is not women’s liberation, it is women’s and men’s liberation.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Rosalynn Carter

If you are afraid of failure, you don’t deserve success.

Nastia Liukin

I don’t know a woman alive who isn’t courageous.

Reese Witherspoon

A charming woman doesn’t follow the crowd; she is herself.

Loretta Young

If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.

Dolly Parton

A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.

Melinda Gates

The best protection any woman can have is courage.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I don’t believe in putting on airs. I call it like I see it.

 Ellen Pompeo

You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.

Unknown

Hard days are the best because that’s when champions are made.

Gabby Douglas

We need to live in a culture that values and respects and looks up to and idolizes women as much as men.

Emma Watson

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

Hillary Clinton

Keep working even when no one is watching.

Alex Morgan

Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you.

Viola Davis

A girl should be two things: Who and what she wants.

Coco Chanel

It takes courage and strength to be empathetic, and I’m very proudly an empathetic and compassionate leader. I am trying to chart a different path, and that will attract criticism but I can only be true to myself and the form of leadership I believe in.

Jacinda Ardern

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

She wasn’t looking for a knight. She was looking for a sword.

Atticus

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.

Angela Davis

Above all, be the heroine of your life. Not the victim.

Nora Ephron

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.  

Margaret Atwood

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Mary Shelley

Girls should never be afraid to be smart.

Emma Watson

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.

Serena Williams

There’s nothing a man can do that I can’t do better and in heels.

Ginger Rogers

Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.

Stephanie Bennett-Henry

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.

Audrey Hepburn

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

Serena Williams

A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink.”

Gina Carey

The important thing is to always ask the world to do some things. But sometimes they cannot be done, so you have to take a stab, and you have to do them.

 Malala Yousafzai

Your life isn’t yours if you constantly care what others think.

Unknown

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

Marilynne Robinson