250+ Women’s Day Quotes – Women’s International Quotes

Welcome to a selection of Women’s International Quotes, including powerful Women’s Day Quotes that celebrate women’s outstanding achievements and resilience worldwide.

These motivational quotations are potent reminders of women’s courage, strength, and persistence. These quotes are frequently used to commemorate Women’s Day, honor women’s efforts, and push for gender equality.

These words, whether shared on social media, used in speeches, or written on cards, elevate women’s voices, urging people to break down barriers, question prejudices, and promote a more inclusive and equal society.

Let us look at encouraging statements that elevate and honor women’s contributions to influencing the world.

Best Women’s Day Quotes

A woman is like a teabag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

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

 

You can kid the world. But not your sister. – Charlotte Gray

 

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world. – Hillary Clinton

 

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. – Coco Chanel

 

To tell a woman everything she cannot do is to tell her what she can. – Spanish proverb

 

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. – Maya Angelou

 

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. – Amelia Earhart

 

Women are made to be loved, not understood. –  Oscar Wilde

 

Well-behaved women seldom make history. – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

 

Where there is a woman, there is magic. – Ntozake Shange

 

Women themselves have the right to live in dignity, in freedom from want and freedom from fear. On this International Women’s Day, let us rededicate ourselves to making that a reality. – Kofi Annan

 

Above all, be the heroine of your life. Not the victim. – Nora Ephron

 

A woman’s guess is much more accurate than a man’s certainty. – Rudyard Kipling

 

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness. —Oprah Winfrey

 

Look at the big picture, no matter how big or small your role. – Erin Lo

 

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. – Malala Yousafzai

 

I’m grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.  – Maya Angelou

 

Women’s history is women’s right. — Dr. Gerda Lerner

 

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. – Margaret Thatcher

 

As soon as I had enough agency in my life to grow up, I became who I am. – Janet Mock

 

The history of all times and of today especially teaches that women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. – Louise Otto

 

A charming woman doesn’t follow the crowd; she is herself. – Loretta Young

 

She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what’s beyond ahead. ― Núria Añó

 

Women don’t want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think – in a deeper voice. – Bill Cosby

 

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. – Margaret Thatcher

 

Sisters are probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.  – Margaret Mead

 

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor. – Betty Friedan

 

I’m very pleased to be recognizing International Women’s Day, A day that celebrates the achievements of women across the world. – Theresa May

 

Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size. – Virginia Woolfe

 

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. – Anais Nin

 

No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it’s only a question of degree. – W. C. Fields

 

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.  – Marie Curie

 

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. – John Lennon

 

The best protection any woman can have is courage. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

 

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

Women are the real architects of society. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it. — Marilyn Monroe

 

You are the CEO of your life. You have the power to stage and compose it the way you want it to be. -Nethra Murali

 

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. – Irina Dunn

 

There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish. – Michelle Obama

 

The most effective way to do it, is to do it. — Amelia Earhart

 

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse. – Golda Meir

 

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fears; knowing what must be done does away with fear. – Rosa Parks

 

A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. – Melinda Gates

 

She wasn’t looking for a knight. She was looking for a sword. – Atticus

 

Women are the nourishing power of the Universe. Whoever has a deep respect for women of the world, will remain free from diseases. ― Amit Ray

 

After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough. – Anna Quindlen

 

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

 

The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the world.  – Charles Malik

 

Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art. – CeeLo Green

 

The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence. – Beyoncé

 

Like anything learned, bravery needs to be practiced. – Caroline Paul

 

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced. – Malala Yousafzai

 

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

 

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.  –  Margaret Sanger

 

You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. – Brigham Young

 

Girls should never be afraid to be smart. – Emma Watson

 

Success is only meaningful – and enjoyable – if it feels like your own. – Michelle Obama

 

Despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer the great question that has never been answered: What does a woman want? – Sigmund Freud

 

When they go low; we go high.— Michelle Obama

 

Lead by example, coaching, recognition, and accountability. – Roderick Wilson

 

Don’t let anyone tell you you’re weak because you’re a woman. –  Mary Kom

 

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. – Mother Teresa

 

Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. — Dolores Huerta

 

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. – Gloria Steinem

 

Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights. – Hillary Clinton

 

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us. – Louisa May Alcott

 

There’s nothing a man can do that I can’t do better and in heels. – Ginger Rogers

 

A woman that knows her worth doesn’t measure herself against another woman but stands strong, calmed and self-confident. ― Auliq Ice

 

Remember the dignity of your womanhood. Do not appeal, do not beg, do not grovel. Take courage, join hands, stand beside us, fight with us. – Christabel Pankhurst

 

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That’s what music is to me. – Janis Joplin

 

Women are seldom silent. Their beauty is forever speaking for them.  – Philip Moeller

 

Women are the real superheroes because they’re not just working. They have a life and everything. – Vanessa Paradis

 

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking. – Joan Rivers

 

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

 

If you don’t like being a doormat then get off the floor. – Al Anon

 

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change. – Hillary Clinton

 

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity. –  Mahatma Gandhi

 

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women? – Virginia Woolf

 

Life is tough, my darling, but so are you. – Stephanie Bennett-Henry

 

As a woman, I have no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world. – Virginia Woolf

 

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

 

I’m a human being and I fall in love and sometimes I don’t have control of every situation. — Beyonce

 

People will gladly help you, but they cannot read your mind. Ask! – Maria Stocia

 

I got my own back. – Maya Angelou

 

Women’s value has been under-recognized for far too long. – Sidney Sheldon

 

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me. – Diana

 

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. – Lucille Ball

 

The most courageous act is to think for yourself. Aloud. – Coco Chanel

 

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. – Mark Twain

 

A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink. – Gina Carey

 

OF COURSE, WOMEN DO NOT WORK AS HARD AS MEN. THEY GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME. ― Nitya Prakash

 

Because men and women are the complements of one another, we need woman’s thoughts in national affairs to make a safe and stable government. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

 

Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out. – Anita Roddick

 

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met. – Farrah Fawcett

 

When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous. – Michelle Obama

 

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. – J.K. Rowling

 

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want. – Madonna

 

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. – Friedrich Nietzsche

 

I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they’re the first to be rescued off sinking ships. –  Gilda Radner

 

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men. – William Shakespeare

 

If you have the knowledge, let others light their candles in it. – Margaret Fuller

 

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. – Aristotle Onassis

 

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon. – Tim Allen

 

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind. — Taylor Swift

 

If I don’t have confidence in myself, why should anyone else? – Adrienne Burch

 

The path from dreams to success does exist. – Kalpana Chawla

 

Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.  – G.D. Anderson

 

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. — Gloria Steinem

 

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

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

 

One is not born a woman, one becomes one. – Simone de Beauvoir

 

I can and I will. Watch me. – Carrie Green

 

We can’t control what others think We might as well go ahead and live. ― Sanhita Baruah

 

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. – Rebecca West

 

I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much. – Mother Teresa

 

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.  – Timothy Leary

 

Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth, and everything else will come to you. – Ellen DeGeneres

 

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don’t have is just love what we do have. – Cameron Diaz

 

The only really happy folk are married women and single men. – H. L. Mencken

 

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.  – Ellen Degeneres

 

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman. – Chanakya

 

She wore her scars as her best attire. A stunning dress made of hellfire. – Daniel Saint

 

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be. – J. K. Rowling

 

Tennis just a game, family is forever. — Serena Williams

 

It is important to do a good job, but it is vital to make yourself visible. – Rebekah Kofo-Kasumu

 

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me. – Zadie Smith

 

Some women fear the fire. Some women simply become it. – R.H. Sin

 

I know that like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have. ― Eva Peron

 

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. – Oliver Goldsmith

 

I don’t know a woman alive who isn’t courageous. – Reese Witherspoon

 

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. – Anais Nin

 

There is no force more powerful than a woman determined to rise. – W.E.B. Dubois

 

The International Women’s Day means a day of the ceremonial of all 365 days, which only women own and influence since that leaves nothing, for the men. ― Ehsan Sehgal

 

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are a great vacation less class. –  Anne Morrow Lindberg

 

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. – J. K. Rowling

 

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive. – Samuel Richardson    

 

A woman’s heart holds the light that guides you even in a dark tunnel-like that of life. – Anonymous   

 

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. – Maya Angelou

 

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. – Robert Frost

 

There’s no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. –  Albert Ellis

 

Men’s vows are women’s traitors! – William Shakespeare

 

Sometimes it’s the princess who kills the dragon and saves the prince. – Samuel Lowe

 

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are. – Nora Ephron

 

I don’t want my wrinkles taken away – I don’t want to look like everyone else. — Jane Fonda

 

Find what you enjoy doing. This is where you tend to excel and show your best self. – Stephanie Hidalgo

 

First principle: never to let one’s self be beaten down by persons or by events. – Marie Curie

 

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves. – Mary Shelley

 

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right. — Rosa Parks

 

Find something you’re passionate about and stay tremendously interested in it. – Julia Child

 

We need to live in a culture that values and respects and looks up to and idolizes women as much as men. – Emma Watson

 

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

 

The most beautiful thing a woman can wear is confidence. – Blake Lively

 

I am a virtuous woman. ― Lailah Gifty Akita

 

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race. – Mary Mcleod Bethune

 

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. 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 prefer the word homemaker, because housewife always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. – Bella Abzug

 

A strong woman is the one who can dare to raise her voice for the cause she believes in, and this strength lives in a corner in every woman’s heart. It just needs to be searched. – Carlos P. Gonzalez

 

A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform. – Diane Mariechild

 

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. – H. L. Mencken

 

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades. –  Audrey Hepburn

 

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. – Oscar Wilde

 

A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t. – Rhonda Hansome

 

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own. -Audre Lorde

 

If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative. — Barbara Walters

 

If you are passionate about something, lead by example. – Monica Bajaj

 

I decided I can’t pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it. – Serena Williams

 

You don’t have to play masculine to be a strong woman. – Mary Elizabeth Winstead

 

We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist. — Linda Sarsour

 

Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. -Viola Davis

 

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. –  Mother Teresa

 

I want every girl to know that her voice can change the world. – Malala

 

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him. -Marlene Dietrich

 

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race? – Susan B. Anthony

 

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.  – George Santayana

 

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. – Maya Angelou

 

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

 

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men. – George Bernard Shaw

 

Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it’s quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid. – Rita Rudner

 

Between men and women, there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. – Oscar Wilde

 

There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.  – Hannah Gadsby

 

Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. – Janis Joplin

 

Integrate what you believe in every single area of your life. Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody else, too. — Meryl Streep

 

Speaking up and participating can get you just as far as training and book knowledge. – Parul Shorey

 

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. – Helen Keller

 

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. – Judy Garland

 

Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough. ― Oprah Winfrey

 

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. – Rihanna

 

I love women. They’re the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that’s fine. – Mel Gibson

 

There’s something about a woman with a loud mind that sits in silence, smiling, knowing she can crush you with the truth. – R.G. Moon

 

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor. – Coco Chanel

 

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever. – Susan B. Anthony

 

Heaven hath no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. – William Congreve

 

Extremists have shown what frightens them the most – a girl with a book. – Malala Yousafzai

 

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker

 

A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future. – Coco Chanel

 

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance. – Oscar Wilde

 

It’s okay if you fall down and lose your spark. Just make sure that when you get back up, you rise as the whole damn fire. – Colette Werden

 

I want to say to you who think women cannot succeed, we have brought the government of England to this position, that it has to face this alternative: either women are to be killed or women are to have the vote. – Emmeline Pankhurst

 

Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success. — Martha Stewart

 

Talking about my success and impact has always been difficult, but I have learned that this is a huge investment in myself. – Risa Hunter

 

Change takes courage. – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

 

Strong back.  Soft front. Wild heart. Just be you. – Brene Brown

 

You can waste your life drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them. — Shonda Rhimes

 

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside. – Coco Chanel

 

She overcame everything that was meant to destroy her. – Rumi

 

Do your thing and don’t care if they like it. – Tina Fey

 

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. – Maya Angelou

 

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

 

Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real. Perhaps they are.  – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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

 

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men. – Benjamin Disraeli

 

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.  – Oscar Wilde

 

What’s the greatest lesson a woman should learn? That since day one, she’s already had everything she needs within herself. It’s the world that convinced her she did not. – Rupi Kaur

 

Dream the dreams that have never been dreamt. – David Bower

 

I fall in love every time. And I don’t really fall in love a lot, but when I do, I fall hard. — Katy Perry

 

My leadership philosophy is built on my belief that we should live life on purpose. – Christina Lewis

 

I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be. – Diane Von Furstenberg

 

You have just one life to live. It is yours. Own it, claim it, live it, do the best you can with it. – Hillary Clinton

 

Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely — and the right to be heard.  — Hillary Clinton

 

Never dull your shine for somebody else. – Tyra Banks

 

Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress. – Kiera Cass

 

I identify more with who I feel myself to be than what I look like. Either way, am I obliged to entertain you with my appearance? – Carrie Fisher

 

She never seemed shattered to me; she was a breathtaking mosaic of battles she’s won. – Matt Baker

 

Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile. – Emma Bonino

 

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to 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. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Eleanor Roosevelt

 

The difference between a broken community and a thriving one is the presence of women who are valued. – Michelle Obama

 

I would always rather be happy than dignified. – Charlotte Brontë

 

The greatest gift you can give to the world is the passion for you. Seize the day and make it count. – Tega Ologbo

 

You can be the lead in your own life. — Kerry Washington

 

I raise up my voice, not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. – Malala Yousafzai

 

Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you’d be surprised, you are much stronger than you think. – Lady Gaga

 

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better. – Frida Kahlo

 

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. – Amelia Earhart

 

No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. – Carrie Chapman Catt

 

A strong woman understands that gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts. – Nancy Rathburn

 

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. – Jane Austen

 

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use. – Ruth Gordon

 

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another, but women are by nature enemies. – Arthur Schopenhauer

 

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.  – Maya Angelou

 

She remembered who she was and the game changed. – Lalah Deliah

 

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. – Lady Gaga

 

It is very strange that the years teach us patience – that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. — Elizabeth Taylor

 

Be you. Embrace who you are and leverage those unique things that make you, you. – Mindy Seiffert

 

As long as I am winning, people shouldn’t care whether my skirt is six inches long or six feet long. – Sania Mirza

 

You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right. – Aung San Suu Kyi

 

I never doubted that equal rights were the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me, there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. — Alice Paul

 

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women’s issues. – Charlotte Bunch

 

A woman should be like a single flower—not a whole bouquet. – Anna Held

 

No black woman writer in this culture can write ‘too much’. Indeed, no woman writer can write ‘too much’…No woman has ever written enough. – Bell hooks

 

Yes, she knows pain, but she is strong. Her heart knows no other way. – A.R. Asher

 

Honor your daughters. They are honorable. – Malala Yousafzai

 

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. – Mother Teresa

 

The greatest gift to man is women, but the greatest gift to women is herself. – CC Campbell

 

Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination. – Marcel Proust

 

Ambition is a word associated with women negatively. People say she’s too ambitious. Why is that a bad thing? – Priyanka Chopra

 

You have to use your privilege to serve other people. — Tarana Burke

 

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made… It shouldn’t be that women are the exception. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

 

Don’t try to squeeze into a glass slipper. Instead, shatter the glass ceiling. – Priyanka Chopra

 

Even if it makes others uncomfortable, I will love who I am. – Janelle Monae

 

You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will, undoubtedly, fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I’m just not going to let this get me down. – Sonia Sotomayor

 

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

 

Just watch, all of you men. I’ll show you what a woman can do…I’ll goes across the country, I’ll race to the Moon… I’ll never look back. – Edna Gardner Whyte

 

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.  – Rudyard Kipling

 

Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you. – Caroline Myss

 

Women are naturally secretive, and they like to do their own secreting. – Arthur Conan Doyle

 

I have thought a sufficient measure of a civilization is the influence of good women. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

I expect a woman will be the last thing civilized by man. – George Meredith

 

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. – Naomi Wolf

 

What nourishes me also destroys me. — Angelina Jolie

 

I am not the first woman to multitask. I am not the first woman to work and have a baby – there are many women who have done this before.  – Jacinda Ardern

 

Everyone’s dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard. – Serena Williams

 

In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart. ― Anne Frank

 

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. – Jane Austen

 

Women hold up half the sky.  – Mao Zedong

 

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women. –  Malala Yousafzai

 

The world needs strong women who will lift and build others. Who will love and be loved? Women who live bravely, both tender and fierce; women of indomitable will. – Amy Tenney

 

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. – Audrey Hepburn

 

I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else. -Dolly Parton

 

Israel is a great place to show how we can accelerate the cause of women in leadership. – Randall Lane

 

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders. – Sheryl Sandberg

 

Like stars, women can survive in the darkest places. – Rune Lazuli

 

Every one of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves. – Princess Diana

 

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not. – Oprah Winfrey

 

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony. – Jane Austen

 

Success breeds confidence. – Beryl Markham

 

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.  – Rudyard Kipling

 

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.  – Groucho Marx

 

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

 

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can’t see the person for all the clutter. – Julie Andrews

 

She is strong, but not in the ways most people think. She loves more than she’ll ever get back and she knows it, yet she loves anyway.  – J.M. Storm

 

The emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery. — Grace Kelly

 

Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations. – Mae Jemison

 

Begin each day as if it were on purpose. – Mary Anne Radmacher

 

You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.  ― Shirley Chisholm

 

I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness. – Sofia Vergara

 

Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them. – Michael Hutchence

 

I hate men who are afraid of women’s strength. – Anaïs Nin

 

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer. — Queen Latifah

 

Empowered women who reach tough or unconventional positions to make choices and not sacrifices. – Kiran Bedi

 

I don’t like myself, I’m crazy about myself.  –  May West

 

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore. – Georgia O’Keeffe

 

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

Women’s Day and Women’s International Quotes can motivate, encourage, and honor the extraordinary accomplishments of women. Let these inspiring words act as a desire for a time when respect and equality rule the world, creating a better place for everyone.