Women’s empowerment is not only a catchy phrase but a central element in nations’ social and economic progress. Everybody gains when women succeed. From Susan B. Anthony in the suffrage movement to youth activist Malala Yousafzai, women’s rights and gender equality have come a long way. Below you’ll find a series of empowered woman quotes from the greatest, wise and inspiring women. Empowered Women Quotes
Time to speak about the F-word. In 2020, marking yourself unabashedly as a feminist is no longer a scarlet letter — and thanks to the celestial powers for that. Nevertheless, the journey to true gender equality (along with all the big complexities in between, intersecting with the power structures of race , class, sexuality, and more) is a long and continuously changing one. To be inspired by the words of the trailblazing women who have said it best, read on.
Empowered Women Quotes
Hillary Clinton – “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.”
Malala Yousafzai – “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.”
Margaret Thatcher – “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”
Madonna – “I’m tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”
Madeleine Albright – “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – “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.”
G.D. Anderson – “Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong, it’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.”
Gloria Steinem – “Women are always saying, ‘We can do anything that men can do.’ But men should be saying, ‘We can do anything that women can do.”
Maya Angelou – “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. ”
Maya Angelou – “I am a woman / Phenomenally / Phenomenal woman / That’s me.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg – “Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. … It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.”
Erin McKean – “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.’”
Empowered Women Quotes
There’s something so special about a woman who dominates in a man’s world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer.
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Melinda Gates – “A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.”
Edith Wharton – “I have sometimes thought that a woman’s nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawingroom, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes.”
Nellie Bly – “‘It is impossible for you to do it,’ was the terrible verdict. ‘In the first place you are a woman and would need a protector, and even if it were possible for you to travel alone you would need to carry so much baggage that it would detain you in making rapid changes. Besides you speak nothing but English, so there is no use talking about it; no one but a man can do this. Very well,’ I said angrily, ‘Start the man, and I’ll start the same day for some other newspaper and beat him.”
“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
“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
Empowered Women Quotes
When a woman is assaulted, one of the first questions people ask is, Did you say no? This question assumes that the answer was always yes, and that it is her job to revoke the agreement. To defuse the bomb she was given. But why are they allowed to touch us until we physically fight them off? Why is the door open until we have to slam it shut? Chanel Miller
“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe you must become its soul.”
Coretta Scott King
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