Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world. — Melinda Gates
I think women are very powerful and I think we're more powerful together than separated. — Zendaya
There is no power in the world like that of women ... this most potent constituency we seek to represent, and for their suffrages we sue. — Louisa Lawson
Never underestimate the power of a bossy woman. — Karen Hawkins
There is no force equal to a woman determined to rise — W. E. B. Du Bois
Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats. — Aretha Franklin
Women hold up the other half of the sky. — Thomas Sankara
I’m just so glad that girl power is working in Hollywood. — Vivica Fox
The thing women must do to rise to power is to redefine their femininity. Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact power has no sex. — Katharine Graham
A woman's true power lies in her ability to inspire and support her man. — Andrew Tate
Every woman has the power to seduce the world with her
uniqueness, passion and creativity. — Donna Karan
The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it. — Blake Lively
The woman, in a battle of fists or guns, may not be as great a power as a man; but a woman behind a vote is every bit as useful as a man. — Irene Parlby
Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong. — Judy Chicago
The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock. — Osho
Short Woman Power Quotes
I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman. — Helen Reddy
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. — Roseanne Barr
Be the catalyst for change.
Empowering women, empowering humanity — Farhan Akhtar
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. — Henry Kissinger
When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious. — Marianne Williamson
Empowering women is key to building a future we want — Amartya Sen
My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power. — Paulina Rubio
Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known. — Nellie L. McClung
Top 10 Woman Power Quotes
Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. — Maya Angelou
I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being. — Maya Angelou
Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women. — Madeleine Albright
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves. — Mary Wollstonecraft
A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. — Melinda Gates
Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now. — Harry S. Truman
I believe that all women are pretty without makeup- but with the right makeup can be pretty powerful. — Bobbi Brown
All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now. — Brian Weiss
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead. — Ambrose Bierce
Woman Power Image Quotes
Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success. — Arianna Huffington
You have the power to say - This is not how my story will end.
Strong Woman Power 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
Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use. — Ruth Gordon
There'll always be a McQueen woman. She's strong, powerful & when she puts a McQueen jacket on, she feels different. — Sarah Burton
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control your that means everyone can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.
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
Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else — Sara Blakely
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go on further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy. — Diane von Furstenberg
I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. — Marissa Mayer
Cavalli is all about being a strong woman - being sexy and powerful. Which is how we'd like to feel, all of the time! The clothes are very strong and sexy - quite Amazonian. And you feel like that yourself when you're wearing the clothes. — Georgia May Jagger
Woman must not accept; she must challenge. — Margaret Sanger
Inspiring Woman Power Quotes
Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you have none. — Giuseppe Mazzini
Where there is a woman there is magic. If there is a moon falling from her mouth, she is a woman who knows her magic, who can share or not share her powers. A woman with a moon falling from her mouth, roses between her legs and tiaras of Spanish moss, this woman is a consort of the spirits. — Ntozake Shange
Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live. — Anne Sweeney
Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. — Sara Blakely
Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail at all. — Maya Angelou
You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don't exist. — Diane von Furstenberg
I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child. — Joseph Campbell
The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this. — Albert Einstein
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. — Mahatma Gandhi
Beautiful Woman Power Quotes
She’s a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star. — Eric Jerome Dickey
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! — Alexander Herzen
If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman. — Henry Ward Beecher
Praise is literal food for feminine qualities. If you want your woman to grow in her radiance health, happiness, love, beauty, power and depth, praise these qualities. Praise them daily. A number of times. — David Deida
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman. — Chanakya
Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. — Ambrose Bierce
The empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description. — Steve Maraboli
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it. — Upham
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it. — Misty Upham
Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy. — Honore de Balzac
Women Power 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
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
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 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
As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized. — Bell Hooks
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
When a man denies the power of women, he is denying his own subconscious. — Amrita Pritam
Female Power Quotes
I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist. — Ginni Rometty
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
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
Don't be afraid to speak up for yourself. Keep fighting for your dreams! — Gabby Douglas
Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without denying 'repression,' is a testimony to unspoken female power and the continuing protest in Islamic culture. — Shirin Neshat
We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. — Malala Yousafzai
You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are. — Melissa Etheridge
If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement. — Gilbert Harding
I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself. — Emma Stone
The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power. — Carol P. Christ
Humanizing birth means understanding that the woman giving birth is a human being, not a machine and not just a container for making babies. Showing women-half of all people-that they are inferior and inadequate by taking away their power to give birth is a tragedy for all society. — Marsden Wagner
All women are goddesses, and it's just a matter of letting that goddess-power shine - and if you don't try to be the biggest and baddest damn goddess you can be, you are selling yourself short. — Kimora Lee Simmons
When I was growing up, all the women in my house were using needles. I've always had a fascination with the needle, the magic power of the needle. The needle is used to repair damage. It's a claim to forgiveness. It is never aggressive, it's not a pin. — Louise Bourgeois
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. — Virginia Woolf
There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood. — Walter Reuther
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
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. — Virginia Woolf
I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high. — Nellie L. McClung
Strong Powerful Women Quotes
You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. — Shonda Rhimes
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
We can do no great things-only small things with great love. — Mother Teresa
If you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner. — Cher
Everything, and I mean everything, is about strong, powerful women. — Jesse Peyronel
Powerful Female Quotes
For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different. — Tina Turner
If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency. — Bell Hooks
About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength. — Jane Elliott
About 10,000 years ago, males and females were acting equitably and were treating one another as equals, and then males took over the power, because they have physical power and physical strength. — Jane Elliot
Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination. — Sheila Jeffreys
It's possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people. — Taylor Swift
Weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born. — Malala Yousafzai
A perfect writer would make words sing, dance, kiss, do the male and female act, bear children, weep, bleed, rage, stab, steal, fire cannon, steer ships, sack cities, charge with cavalry or infantry, or do anything that man or woman or the natural powers can do. — Walt Whitman
Testosterone is a sex hormone, and I think it is the most social of hormones. The major social effect of testosterone is to orient us toward issues of sex and power. By the end of puberty testosterone levels in males are 8 to 10 times higher than in females, but decrease with age. — James McBride
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed. — A. N. Wilson
Girl Power Quotes
You can't be afraid of what people are going to say, because you're never going to make everyone happy. — Selena Gomez
Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school — John Amos Comenius
Put on some lipstick and pull yourself together. — Elizabeth Taylor
A girl does not need anyone who does not need her. — Marilyn Monroe
A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she's not only a mother, she's not only a sister, she's not only a wife. But a girl has the - she should have an identity. She should be recognized and she has equal rights as a boy. — Malala Yousafzai
Look, guys, no matter what a girl does, no matter how she's dressed, no matter how much she's had to drink, it's never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent. This doesn't make you a man. It makes you a coward. — Joe Biden
The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be, so you can create a better world. — Ashley Rickards
When a scene is shrouded in mist, it seems greater, nobler, and heightens the viewers' imaginative powers, increasing expectation -
like a veiled girl. Generally the eye and the imagination are more readily drawn by nebulous distance than by what is perfectly plain for all to see — Caspar David Friedrich
I was brought up in an environment to believe that my opinion was important, that I had something to say, and that it was no less powerful because I was young, a girl, at the time really unattractive, definitely not the smartest kid in the class. — Megyn Kelly
I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation. — Ronnie Spector
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
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. — Ella Fitzgerald
My best successes came on the heels of failures. — Barbara Corcoran
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
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've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint — Oprah Winfrey
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
Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out. — Anita Roddick
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men. — Gloria Steinem
Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find his highest enjoyment to arise from the continued practice of doing all in his power to promote the well-being, and happiness, of every man, woman, and child, without regard to their class, sect, party, country or colour — Robert Owen
I'm a witch woman--high on tobacco and holy water. I'm a woman delighted with her disasters. They give me something to do. A profession of sorts...I have the magic of words. The power to charm and kill at will. — Sandra Cisneros
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power. — Raymond Carver
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. — Winston Churchill
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom he named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children. — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life. — Lucretia Mott
One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare. — Judi Dench
A woman is more than a powerful feeling or unforgettable taste, and a man should not try to eat from every dish. A good woman is a jewel from Allah for which a man must pay a heavy price. Be very careful. — Sister Souljah
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
So many words commonly used to describe childbirth-support, patient, management, delivered by, coached, helped, guided-suggest that a woman does not have the power to give birth without being dependent on somebody else. This isn't the case at all. — Michel Odent
I’m like a psychologist, I can discover the panther inside a woman and then, boosh! I can give her power! — Giuseppe Zanotti
The natural power of breastfeeding is one of the greatest wonders of the world. It is about real love. It is about caring and celebrating the wondrous joy of nurturing a new life. It is about enjoying being a woman. — Anwar Fazal
They who say that women do not desire the right of suffrage, that they prefer masculine domination to self-government, falsify every page of history, every fact in human experience. It has taken the whole power of the civil and canon law to hold woman in the subordinate position which it is said she willingly accepts. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I believe a woman who loves herself is a powerful, passionate, attractive force and I commit from this day forward to love myself deeply and extravagantly — Jan Phillips
Women only cut their hair in times of crisis... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin' hair is a cry for help. — Bella Pollen
Bhutto represents everything the fundamentalists hate - a powerful, highly-educated woman operating in a man's world, seemingly unafraid to voice her independent views and, indeed, seemingly unafraid of anything, including the very real possibility that one day someone might succeed in killing her because of who she is. — Benazir Bhutto
To be a mother is a woman's greatest vocation in life. She is a partner with God. No being has a position of such power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her comes the responsibility and opportunity of molding the nation's citizens. — Spencer W. Kimball
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