February 3 2023

180+ Revolutionary Quotes For Women Stepping Away From Stereotypes

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In the times of movements like #MeToo and Time’s Up, women’s empowerment has become a strong demand in the struggle for equality. Then again, we tend to forget that woman’s fight for a fairer social treatment has really been an issue as old as the attempt of ancient Greek Kallipatira, a woman from Rhodes, to attend the Olympic Games of 428 BC disguised as a man.

Whether written especially for women or simply trying to inspire, motivate or cast a light on the positive side of things, the quotes on this list are ideal for sharing on International Women’s Day or literally on any other day of the year. Away from stereotypes, these women’s quotes will empower you and encourage you to seize the day.

Best Quotes For Women

Inspirational Quotes For Women
Positive Quotes for Women
Encouraging Quotes For Women

Life Quotes for Women
Uplifting Quotes For Women
Inspirational Quotes for Black Women
Quotes For Women In Leadership

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Best Quotes For Women

What makes you different or weird, that’s your strength. Meryl Streep
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth. Rumi
No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed. Billie Jean King

If it’s a good idea, go ahead and do it. It’s much easier to apologize than it is to get permission. Grace Hopper
You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe. Leymah Gbowee
If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. Dolly Parton
Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance. Anne Lamott

You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you. Katie Couric
Give light and people will find the way. Ella Baker
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. Maya Angelou
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but the moments that take our breath away. Maya Angelou

Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Dr. Mae Jemison
Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror. Byron Katie
Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence. Virginia Woolf
The way we talk to our children becomes their inner voice. Peggy O’Mara

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. Brigham Young
A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. Coco Chanel
If you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner. Cher
I would always rather be happy than dignified. Charlotte Brontë

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. Alice Walker
Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind. Dodinsky
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself. Coco Chanel
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself? Anais Nin
Here’s to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them. Unknown

You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Erin McKean
I get angry about things, then go on and work. Toni Morrison
Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination. Marcel Proust
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman
I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been. William Golding

No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. Althea Gibson
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. Nora Ephron
Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now. Audre Lorde
It’s strange how you give the people you love so much power over you. Tara Westover

Inspirational Quotes For Women

Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Eleanor Roosevelt

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
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity. Ruby Dee
You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens. Mandy Hale
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth. Martha Beck
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. Audre Lorde

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. Helen Keller
Be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. Judy Garland
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott
Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. Mario Fernández
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. Lorraine Hansberry

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. Marie Curie
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow, it’s all the same day. Janis Joplin
Women belong in all places where decisions are being made… It shouldn’t be that women are the exception. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything. Condoleezza Rice
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt

The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we see ourselves successfully acknowledged by the world. Arlene Rankin
Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others. Marian Wright Edelman
I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others’ expectations or let others define my worth. Sonia Sotomayor
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. Indira Gandhi
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends. J. K. Rowling

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. J.K. Rowling
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. Thomas Hardy
You never find yourself until you face the truth. Pearl Bailey
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. Helen Keller

Positive Quotes for Women

A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual. Audrey Hepburn
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank
The challenge is not to be perfect…it’s to be whole. Jane Fonda
Everyone shines, given the right lighting. Susan Cain
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Omar Khayyam

Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people. Diane Sawyer
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Helen Keller
You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness. Diane von Furstenberg
Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud. Maya Angelou
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. Maya Angelou

If you’re someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that’s a sign of a life lived honorably. Rachel Maddow
Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic. Rosalind Russell
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. Jules Renard
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. Mother Teresa
I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself. Emma Stone
I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live. Anne Sweeney
A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too. Miranda Kerr

Encouraging Quotes For Women

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. Anais Nin
I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that’s ever happened to me has taught me compassion. Ellen DeGeneres

If you can dream it, you can do it. Walt Disney
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman
Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are. Stephanie Lahart
I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can’t fail if you do that. Anita Hill
You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are. Melissa Etheridge

The best protection any woman can have … is courage. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Everything is within your power, and your power is within you. Janice Trachtman
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. J.K Rowling
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. Amelia Earhart
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. Nikki Giovanni

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose. Indira Gandhi
A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want. Madonna
No person has the right to rain on your dreams. Marian Wright Edelman
Women’s freedom is the sign of social freedom. Rosa Luxemburg

Life Quotes for Women

My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs. Tara Westover

You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. Shonda Rhimes
The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. Nikki Giovanni
I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life. Louise Hay
There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. Virginia Woolf
You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute. Tina Fey

If you don’t live your life, then who will? Rihanna
A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform. Diane Mariechild
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Brene Brown
Don’t take too much credit for your children — or too much blame! Debora Spar
Resist much, obey little. Walt Whitman

Each person must live their life as a model for others. Rosa Parks
If you find someone you love in your life, then hang on to that love. Princess Diana
She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn’t boring. Zelda Fitzgerald
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt
It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. Maya Angelou

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that’s not pulling the trigger. Mia Hamm
If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is. Angelina Jolie
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated. Coretta Scott King
Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people. Diane Sawyer

Uplifting Quotes For Women

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. Katharine Hepburn

And one day she discovered that she was fierce and strong, and full of fire and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears. Mark Anthony
Never regret anything that made you smile. Mark Twain
A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself. Marilyn Monroe
Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak. Rachel Zoe

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Eleanor Roosevelt

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence. Eleanor Roosevelt
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it. Albert Schweitzer
Love yourself first and everything else falls into place. Lucille Ball
Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use. Ruth Gordon
I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life. Louise Hay

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. Audrey Hepburn
It’s not your job to like me, it’s mine. Byron Katie
Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring. Lily Pulitzer
It’s possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people. Taylor Swift
Success breeds confidence. Beryl Markham

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default. J. K. Rowling

Inspirational Quotes for Black Women

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style. Maya Angelou
Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. Oprah Winfrey
It is not a racial problem. It is a problem of whether or not you’re willing to look at your life and be responsible for it, and then begin to change it. James Baldwin
We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced. Malala Yousafzai

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better. J.K. Rowling
One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go. Sheila Murray Bethel
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston
Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change. Iyanla Vanzant
Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Margaret Atwood

Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. I didn’t have to become perfect because I’ve learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness. Janelle Monae
One isn’t born courageous, one becomes it. Marjane Satrapi
I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change… I’m changing the things I cannot accept. Angela Davis
Don’t let anyone steal ya joy! There’s always someone miserable trying to bring you down… you just wish them well & proceed on enjoying your life. Missy Elliott
It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. Audre Lorde

Quotes For Women In Leadership

As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think. Toni Morrison
Power’s not given to you. You have to take it. Beyoncé
Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs. Coco Chanel
We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead. Beyoncé
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

The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. Margaret Thatcher
Your silence will not protect you. Audre Lorde
I need to listen well so that I hear what is not said. Thuli Madonsela
A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done. Marge Piercy

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things. Plato, The Republic
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Maya Angelou
We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. Margaret Atwood
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. Coco Chanel
When I believe in something, I’m like a dog with a bone. Melissa McCarthy

Be curious, not judgmental. Walt Whitman
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. Jane Goodall
Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night. Marian Wright Edelman
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. Harper Lee