women are powerful quotes

1) The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before. | Albert Einstein

2) The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. | Ayn Rand

3) There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women. | Madeleine Albright

4) A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. | Coco Chanel

5) The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights. | Gloria Steinem

6) Well-behaved women seldom make history. | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

7) Keep your heels, head, and standards high. | Coco Chanel

8) Always be careful of what you hear about a woman. Rumors come from either a man who can’t have her or a woman who can’t compete with her. | Unknown

9) Here’s to strong women: may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them. | Unknown

10) Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings. | Cheris Kramarae

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

12) The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. | Ralph Waldo Emerson

13) I can hear the roar of women’s silence. | Thomas Sankara

14) I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. | Anaïs Nin

15) You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. | Brigham Young

16) Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. | Nora Ephron

17) When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a b***h. | Bette Davis

18) What would men be without women? Scarce, sir…mighty scarce. | Mark Twain

19) There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain. | Audrey Hepburn

20) I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay. | Madonna

21) A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction. | Oscar Wilde

22) Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. | Coco Chanel

23) As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world. | Virginia Woolf

24) Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. | Marilyn Monroe

25) She believed she could, so she did. | Unknown

26) The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. | Roseanne Barr

27) Maybe some women aren’t meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. | Candace Bushnell

28) I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. | Marilyn Monroe

29) The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. | Yves Saint-Laurent

30) The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the world. | Charles Malik

31) Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you’re proud to live. | Anne Sweeney

32) 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

33) When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it’s tradition. | Letty Cottin Pogrebin

34) You don’t have to be anti-man to be pro-woman. | Jane Galvin Lewis

35) Little girls with dreams become women with a vision. | Unknown

36) Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman. | Coco Chanel

37) A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, ‘For a man, you’re kind of ignorant.’ | Anne Hathaway

38) I am a feminist. I’ve been female for a long time now. I’d be stupid not to be on own side. | Maya Angelou

39) ‘What’s your favorite position?’ ‘CEO.’ | Lauren Conrad

40) Freedom cannot be achieved unless the women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression. | Nelson Mandela

41) Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror. | Byron Katie

42) Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. | Joseph Conrad

43) Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. | Lois Wyse

44) 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