Empowered Women Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• My best successes came on the heels of failures.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Empowering

  Twitter post from Apr 14, 2017

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• Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspiring, Confidence, Fear

  "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a 'Course in Miracles'". Book by Marianne Williamson, 1992.

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• We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Children, Fear

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• I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Motivational, Strong Women, Voice

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• I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint

  Oprah Winfrey

  Strong Women, Believe, Unique

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• The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

  Helen Keller

  Strong Women, Fear, Avoiding Pain

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• New York doesn't care who you are or where you came from.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  New York, Empowerment, Care

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

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• I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspirational, Sad, Women

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

  Melinda Gates

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Independent Women

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  If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Women, Memorable, History

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  For what is done or learned by one class of women becomes, by virtue of their common womanhood, the property of all women.

  Elizabeth Blackwell

  Women, Learning, Class

  Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Medicine as a Profession for Women”, p.15, Library of Alexandria

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• Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Respect, Equality, Rights

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• People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

  Indira Gandhi

  Women, Inspirational Life, Hands

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• Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Independent Women

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• 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 naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Strength

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• Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, People, Empowerment

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• Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good -on your mirror!

  Susan Jeffers

  Women, Mirrors, Empowerment

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• I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.

  Diana Nyad

  Path, Empowering Women, Painful

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• If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Independent, Equality, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.157, A&C Black

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• Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize.
  Behind every word flows energy.

  Sonia Choquette

  Dream, Healing, Bricks And Mortar

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• Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Mother, Husband, Father

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams.

  Lady Gaga

  Dream, Strong Women, Inspiration

  "Lada Gaga Offers Career, Love Advice". pagesix.com. February 28, 2010.

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  Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first 'no.' And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

  Cher

  Inspirational, Positive, Women

  Interview with Christina Lessa, flattmag.com.

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