Badass Women Quotes

• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Being Yourself, Badass

  "We Didn't Come to Saturday Night Live To Be Cute" by Tina Fey, www.slate.com. July 25, 2011.

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• I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong Women, Memorable, Feminist Art

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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

  Roseanne Barr

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Strong Women

  "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

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• If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Dolly Parton

  Motivational, Uplifting, People

  Twitter post from Nov 03, 2010

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  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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• Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

  Charlotte Whitton

  Funny, Hilarious, Strong Women

  Canada Month, June 1963. A later satirical version of this saying added to the end "Luckily, this is not difficult" (Paul Dickson, The Official Rules [1978]). See Eleanor Roosevelt 2

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• If you want something done, ask a busy person.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Strong Women, Want Something, Iron

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• Who runs the world? Girls.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Girl, Running, World

  Song: Run The World, Album: 4, 2011

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• There's nothing a man can do, that I can't do better and in heels

  Ginger Rogers

  Men, Heels, Can Do

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• Now and then women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.

  Amelia Earhart

  Men, Independence, Done

  Amelia Earhart (2009). “Last Flight”, p.50, Crown

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• You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Drawing

  "Grey's Anatomy". www.imdb.com. 2005-.

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• You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Anger, Hands

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• There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Men, Rights, Silence

  "The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Susan B. Mine" by Sonja Livingston, therumpus.net. February 14, 2016.

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• 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 not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strong Women, Empowering, Curiosity

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

  Margaret Sanger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• The heart of a woman will never be found in the arms of a man.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Heart, Men, Arms

  Song: Rinse, Album: Be Not Nobody, 2002

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• Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Strength

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Women hold all the power. They should use it like a whip, not offer it up like a sacrifice.

  Tarryn Fisher

  Sacrifice, Use, Should

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  I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Girl, Witty, Women

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2003). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: National protection for national citizens, 1873 to 1880”, p.491, Rutgers University Press

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• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  Indira Gandhi

  Life, Friendship, Leadership

  "Indian and Pakistani Armies Confront Each Other Along Borders". The New York Times, October 20, 1971.

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• The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

  Viola Davis

  Badass, Opportunity, Color

  "The 10 Best Emmy Moments for Women Last Night" by Inkoo Kang, www.indiewire.com. September 21, 2015.

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• A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

  Gloria Steinem

  Hilarious, Heartbreak, Funny Love

  Attributed

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