Woman is superlative; the best leader in life, the best guide in happy days, the best consoler in sorrow. — Johann Gottfried Seume
We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons. — Emily Murphy
The most beautiful woman in the world is the one who protects and supports other women — Sandra Bullock
A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society. — Betty Friedan
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
Women hold up the other half of the sky. — Thomas Sankara
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise — W. E. B. Du Bois
The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman. — Robert Downey, Jr.
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing. — Boris Pasternak
Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong. — Judy Chicago
I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women. — Ruth Benedict
It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the hard progress of humankind. — Queen Elizabeth II
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done. — Marge Piercy
Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection, and kindness. — Dalai Lama
I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words. — Gloria Steinem
Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats. — Aretha Franklin
Behind every great man there stands a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great behind. — William J. Clinton
Empowered women who reach tough or unconventional positions make CHOICES not sacrifices — Kiran Bedi
Nothing is impossible to a determined woman. — Louisa May Alcott
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions. — Jules Michelet
Top 10 Great Women Quotes
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination. — Mae Jemison
Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less. — Marie Curie
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place. — Billy Crystal
Successful Investing takes time, discipline and patience. No matter how great the talent or effort, some things just take time: You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant. — Warren Buffett
I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end. — Alice Paul
My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence. — Bernard Law Montgomery
It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. — Clara Barton
Decide...whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. — Amelia Earhart
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. — Melinda Gates
Great Women Image Quotes
The potential for greatness lives within us all. — Wilma Rudolph
Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success. — Arianna Huffington
A women can make an average man great, and a great man average. — Robert Burns
Silence is a source of great strength.
Powerful Women's Day Quotes
I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading. — Amy Poehler
I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life — Hillary Clinton
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
I love what's going on these days with these powerful women who are really working to make a difference. — Sallie Krawcheck
I wouldn’t call myself a feminist. I try to live by the girl-power motto. It’s about believing in yourself, no matter how bad a day you’re having, and lending your support to other women. It’s empowering to have that camaraderie with other women. — Melanie Brown
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
Women will have all the power one day anyway. It's just a matter of time. — Sally Quinn
Famous Women Quotes
It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem. — Coretta Scott King
Facials are my biggest beauty indulgence. Looking good is about having a good base. It's about taking care of your skin. — Halle Berry
I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't. — Marilyn Monroe
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters. — Georgia O'Keeffe
The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived. — Marilyn Monroe
I have commanded that my [titulary] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my Horus is high upon the standard ... forever. — Hatshepsut
Use your fear... it can take you to the place where you store your courage. — Amelia Earhart
It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away. — Dorothy Dandridge
I am naturally fond of adventure, a little ambitious, and a good deal romantic - but patriotism was the true secret of my success. — Sarah Emma Edmonds
We're not going to have the America that we want until we elect leaders who are going to tell the truth - not most days, but every day. — Ann Richards
Powerful Women Quotes
In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall succeed in our aims: the improvement of mankind. — Rosalind Franklin
You must make women count as much as men; you must have an equal standard of morals; and the only way to enforce that is through giving women political power so that you can get that equal moral standard registered in the laws of the country. It is the only way. — Emmeline Pankhurst
I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being. — Maya Angelou
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
I am convinced that the women of the world, united without any regard for national or racial dimensions, can become a most powerful force for international peace and brotherhood. — Coretta Scott King
Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise. — Grace Hopper
In my world, a woman was the most powerful thing that I knew. Still is. A woman made the money in my house; a woman made my food. A woman beat my ass when I wasn't a good kid. Women were behind a lot of what spurred South Africa toward democracy. — Trevor Noah
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized. — Bell Hooks
When a man denies the power of women, he is denying his own subconscious. — Amrita Pritam
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. — Madeleine Albright
Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated. — Saddam Hussein
it always seems to me as if the lavender was a little woman in a green dress, with a lavender bonnet and a white kerchief. She's one of those strong, sweet, wholesome people, who always rest you, and her sweetness lingers long after she goes away. — Myrtle Reed
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. — Sojourner Truth
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been. — William Golding
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think. — Mark Twain
To a great mind, nothing is little.
The lifting up of the woman does not require the tearing down of the man. In fact, a strong woman appreciates a strong man. Conversely, a strong man is not intimidated by a strong woman. — T. D. Jakes
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. — Maya Angelou
I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman. — Angela Merkel
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. — Mary Wollstonecraft
Inspirational Strong Women Quotes
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. — Helen Keller
The secret of getting ahead is getting started — Mark Twain
Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.
I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist. — Ginni Rometty
A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car. — Carrie Snow
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. — Oprah Winfrey
Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it. — Harriet Morgan
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. — Ella Fitzgerald
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. — Nora Ephron
There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith. — Emma Watson
Strong Powerful Women Quotes
It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less — Susan B. Anthony
I think women are very powerful and I think we're more powerful together than separated. — Zendaya
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' — Eleanor Roosevelt
No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. — Shonda Rhimes
Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use. — Ruth Gordon
You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are. — Melissa Etheridge
I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself. — Emma Stone
It's difficult to exist as a woman, especially I think as a powerful woman. You want to stand strong and you want to be considered and equal. — Misty Copeland
Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It's hard work that makes things happen. It's hard work that creates change. — Shonda Rhimes
Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters. — Billie Jean King
You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. — Lupita Nyong'o
I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The heart of a woman will never be found in the arms of a man. — Vanessa Carlton
There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth. — Susan B. Anthony
In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders. — Sheryl Sandberg
There's nothing a man can do, that I can't do better and in heels — Ginger Rogers
We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families. — Barbara Mikulski
The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity. — Viola Davis
Courageous Women Quotes
To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction. — Randa Abdel-Fattah
We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them. — Jackson Katz
Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. — Ronald Reagan
Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants. — Carol P. Christ
The frontiers of the kingdom of God were never advanced by men and women of caution. — J. Oswald Sanders
Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength. — Chris Bradford
You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit. — Mary Daly
Someone should advise women to stop fantasizing about courageous firefighters and heroic uniformed soldiers. There is a new sheriff in town who epitomizes a progressive definition of masculinity: Apathetic Cowardly Bystander Man. — Gad Saad
We should be respectful but we must also have the courage to stop harmful practices that impoverish girls, women and their communities. — Graca Machel
I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. 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
Women In History Quotes
In the history of the human race, those periods which later appeared as great have been the periods when the men and the women belonging to them had transcended the differences that divided them and had recognized in their membership in the human race a common bond. — Haile Selassie
Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. — Dolores Huerta
Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society. — Sonia Sotomayor
A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today. — Dolores Huerta
Protest to be effective, must be followed by resolute action and at this crisis in world history when materialistic energy aims at overthrowing spiritual energy and moral values, action needs to develop into a world crusade for the Spiritual Humanity. — Vida Goldstein
There can be no doubt that our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination. Traditionally, such discrimination was rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women, not on a pedestal, but in a cage. — William J. Brennan
We ask only for justice and equal rights-the right to vote, the right to our own earnings, equality before the law. — Lucy Stone
Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater. — Stacy Schiff
We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. — Malala Yousafzai
An evidence that our will has been broken is that we begin to thank God for that which once seemed so bitter, knowing that his will is good and that, in His time and in His way, He is able to make the most bitter waters sweet. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Great Female Quotes
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm
Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? — Mae West
It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color. — Cecilia Bartoli
My best successes came on the heels of failures. — Barbara Corcoran
Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out. — Anita Roddick
Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator. — Simon Cowell
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. — George Eliot
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. — Margaret Fuller
Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return. — Colin Powell
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. — Yves Saint Laurent
I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's lib? I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it. — Peggy Guggenheim
I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country. — Emily Murphy
Money is the great power today. Men sell their souls for it. Women sell their bodies for it. Others worship it. The money power has grown so great that the issue of all issues is whether the corporation shall rule this country or the country shall again rule the corporations. — Joseph Pulitzer
Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. — Emmeline Pankhurst
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience. — Christopher Hitchens
I like to look like a person. It drives me crazy when you see women in movies playing teachers, and they have biceps. It totally takes me out of the movie. I start thinking, Wow, that actress playing this part really looks great! — Emma Stone
There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens, and great revolutions for good or evil spring up in the vacuum created by these openings. In these divine moments key men and women and even entire generations risk everything to become the hinge of history, the pivotal point that determines which way the door will swing. — Lou Engle
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships. — Sharon Stone
Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Our great symbol for the Goddess is the moon, whose three aspects reflect the three stages in women's lives and whose cycles of waxing and waning coincide with women's menstrual cycles. — Carol P. Christ
Whenever vanity and gaiety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments get the better of the principles and judgments of men and women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they will lead us. — John Quincy Adams
Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models. — Emma Bonino
The rule seemed to be that a great woman must either die unwed ... or find a still greater man to marry her. ... The great man, on the other hand, could marry where he liked, not being restricted to great women; indeed, it was often found sweet and commendable in him to choose a woman of no sort of greatness at all. — Dorothy L. Sayers
America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. — Mother Teresa
America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed. — Allen Boyd
I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded. — Virginia Woolf
Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live. — Anne Sweeney
I was in the show for 21 days once-the 21 greatest days of my life. You know, you never handle your luggage in the show, somebody else carries your bags. It was great. You hit white balls for batting practice, the ballparks are like cathedrals, the hotels all have room service, and the women all have long legs and brains. — Kevin Costner
I like photographing women who appear to know something of life. I recently did a session with a great beauty, a movie star in in her thirties. I photographed her twice within three weeks and the second time I said: "You're much more beautiful today than you were three weeks ago." And she replied: "But I'm also three weeks older. — Helmut Newton
A woman has a right to an abortion. That's a decision that's up to the pregnant woman, not up to the pope or some do-gooders or the Religious Right. — Barry Goldwater
Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty. — Louisa May Alcott
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