101 Powerful Women Day Quotes

Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book.

Malala Yousafzai

Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited.

Ava DuVernay

There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.

Hannah Gadsby

There is no force more powerful than a woman determined to rise.

W.E.B. Dubois

There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women.

Malala Yousafzai

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

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

Malala Yousafzai

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water. 

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Stephanie Bennett-Henry

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

Maya Angelou

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

There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish. –

Michelle Obama

Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths. 

Drew Barrymore

Women are the real architects of society.

Cher

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

Michelle Obama

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I had to remind myself of the truth of who I was and the reality that success wasn’t defined by a result but by faithfulness. I had to remember that my identity and healing weren’t dependent on the voices that surrounded me and that the truth wasn’t dependent on popular opinion or cultural responses. I had to focus on what was real and true. The straight line instead of the crooked.

Rachael Denhollander

The most important thing one woman can do for another is expand her sense of actual possibilities.

Adrienne Rich

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Oprah Winfrey

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

Beyoncé

I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before thin.

J.K. Rowling

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 convinced her she did not.

Rupi Kaur

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

Helen Keller

We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced.

LAURA FORMISANO

Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.

Hillary Clinton

 love hearing educated people speak and just shut everyone up. Knowledge is always the loudest voice.

Zendaya

“I don’t like to gamble, but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself.

Beyoncé Knowles

“It’s okay if you fall down and lose your spark. Just make sure that when you get back up, you rise as the whole damn fire.

Colette Warden

 I stand for honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated, and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

Ellen DeGeneres

 didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.

Estée Lauder

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

Margaret Sanger

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

Serena Williams

One is not born a woman, but becomes one. 

Simone de Beauvoir

Perhaps some detours aren’t detours at all. Perhaps they are actually the path. 

Katherine Wolf

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

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Barbara Walters

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Billie Jean King

“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

Anaïs Nin

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

Maya Angelou

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

Coco Chanel

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.

Virginia Woolf

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

bell hooks

I don’t want to be better than you or her or him – I want to be better than I am right now.

Kerri Walsh

Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Judy Garland

 The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Alice Walker

I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femininity. And I want to be respected in all my femaleness. Because I deserve to be.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Gloria Steinem

If you don’t see a clear path for what you want, sometimes you have to make it yourself.

Mindy Kaling

“It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else’s job to take care of me but me.

Beyoncé

I love challenging the status quo. 

Sara Ramirez

Well-behaved women rarely make history.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Ayn Rand

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

Emma Stone

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

I can if I want to because it’s my business.

Tabitha Brown

Where there is a woman, there is magic.

Ntozake Shange

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

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

Audre Lorde

Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress.

Kiera Cass

Be courageous. Challenge orthodoxy. Stand up for what you believe in. When you are in your rocking chair talking to your grandchildren many years from now, be sure you have a good story to tell. 

Amal Clooney

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

Maya Angelou

 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

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

Gina Carey

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

Emma Watson

A woman is like a tea bag: You can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

There’s no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

Albert Ellis

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

Viola Davis

Whether women are better than men I cannot say– but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Golda Mier

I believe the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

Hillary Clinton

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

Oprah Winfrey

Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

Reba McEntire

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

Hillary Clinton

As soon as I had enough agency in my life to grow up, I became who I am.

Janet Mock

 We might not be able to change our circumstances, but we CAN change our attitude.

Beth Moore

If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words, we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.

Betty Eadie

Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

Amelia Earhart

People have to go through things in order to become the person that they are today and that’s that. 

Sarah Hyland

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fears; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Rosa Parks

Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.

Tina Fey

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

Serena Williams

I’ve always wanted to fight for people who didn’t have arms. I’ve always wanted to speak up for people who don’t have a voice. I’ve always wanted to protect people who couldn’t protect themselves. It’s my nature. It’s my instinct.

Sophia Bush

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

 A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

Melinda Gates

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion… Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

Anne Frank

I hate to hear you talk about women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm water all our lives.

Jane Austen

Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a seductive marketing campaign. The idea of women moving through the world as freely as men should sell itself.

Roxane Gay

I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.

Tracee Ellis Ross

There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.

Michelle Obama

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

Nora Ephron

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

George William Curtis

Because confidence is really trust in yourself, right? It has nothing to do with what someone else thinks of you; it’s what you think of you.

Chrissy Metz

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

Oprah

Love who you are, embrace who you are. Love yourself. When you love yourself, people can kind of pick up on that: they can see confidence, they can see self-esteem, and naturally, people gravitate towards you.

Lilly Singh

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

Change takes courage.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights.

Hillary Clinton