April 20th, 2020 | Updated on June 27th, 2022
Let’s acknowledge the fact that we are blessed to have such strong women around us, whether it’s your mother, sister, wife or a colleague. We learn each day how to manage life beautifully without any complaints. They all deserve great appreciation for their hard work and efforts that make our life easy.
If you are looking for the best inspirational quotes about women, we have listed some amazing women empowerment quotes from books and other sources that can help you express your gratitude towards these superwomen.
A woman can create a huge difference in our society, they have the spirit to fight against all the odds and make their own social status recognized globally such as Malala Yousafzai and Meghan Markle and others. Use these motivational quotes for strong women that empowers them by giving wings to their thoughts to achieve the impossible.
1. “Women empowerment is a vital component for global development.” -Gift Gugu Mona
2. “I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. … We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.” -Malala Yousafzai
3. “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” -Margaret Thatcher
4. “I’m tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.” -Madonna
5. “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
6. “To all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful, and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.”
— Hillary Clinton
7. “Educate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a family.” -A. Cripps
8. “Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong, it’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.” -G.D. Anderson
9. “You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female.'” — Erin McKean
10. “I am a woman / Phenomenally / Phenomenal woman / That’s me.” -Maya Angelou
11. “A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.” -Melinda Gates
12. “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” -Gloria Steinem
13. “There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” -Michelle Obama
14. “Don’t just stand for the success of other women – insist on it.” -Gail Blanke
15. “When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man; when a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.” -Bette Davis
16. “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
17. “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” -Audre Lorde
18. “Feminism is for everybody.” -bell hooks
19. “Words have power. TV has power. My pen has power.” -Shonda Rhimes
20. “When there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit. So let’s keep going—let’s keep going until every one of the 161 million women and girls across America has the opportunity she deserves to have.” — Hillary Clinton
21. “Women are leaders everywhere you look—from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women, and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.” — Nancy Pelosi
22. “If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.” -Plato
23. “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
24. “Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I’m well aware of, but that’s just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history—empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves.” — Hillary Clinton
25. “You could make a case that, along with the technological revolution, the most provocative upending destabilizing thrilling change in the course of human history is that we’re finally in it. … We’re here now, women are in the world, and we will not be bullied.” — Meryl Streep
26. “We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.” -Beyoncé
27. “Women must learn to play the game as men do.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
28. “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
29. “I am a woman with thoughts and questions and shit to say. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story—I will.” -Amy Schumer
30. “Women are not the problem. They’re the solution.” -Sheryl Wudunn
31. “For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious—or whatever we please. We are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution.” -Naomi Wolf
32. “I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe
33. “In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.” -Sheryl Sandberg
34. “They cannot stand that a refugee, a black woman, an immigrant, a Muslim, shows up in Congress thinking she’s equal to them. But I say to them, ‘How else did you expect me to show up?'” — Ilhan Omar
35. “Women have discovered that they cannot rely on men’s chivalry to give them justice.” — Helen Keller
36. “Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all.” -Hillary Clinton
37. “Women’s freedom is the sign of social freedom.” -Rosa Luxemburg
38. “The higher the better. It’s more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.” -Christian Louboutin
39. “The only courage you ever need is the courage to fulfill the dreams of your own life.” — Oprah Winfrey
40. “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” — Toni Morrison
41. “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.” — Arundhati Roy
42. “I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.” — Jane Austen
43. “Around the world there are countless examples of women rising, taking leadership, taking their destiny into their own hands, inspiring all of us. But women and girls are still the majority of the victims of war. They are over half of all refugees, and the vast majority of the victims of rape and other sexual and gender-based violence.” — Angelina Jolie
44. “More and more women are realizing that only collective strength and action will allow us to be free to fight for the kind of society that meets basic human needs.” — Roxanne Dunbar
45. “By propagating women’s nature as non-violent they are discouraging women from becoming fighters in the struggle for their own liberation and that of society.” — Anuradha Ghandy
46. “Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.”
47. “A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts.”
48. “I want to do is because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”
49. “We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
50. “People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me.”
