Female Empowerment Quotes

• 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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• 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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• Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

  Rosalind Russell

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

  Margaret Sanger

  Strong Women, Empowering, Challenges

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.99, Cosimo, Inc.

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  The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Motivational, Inspiring, Sad

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• Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

  Margaret Sanger

  Strong Women, Courage, Struggle

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.99, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A man's got to do what a man's got to do.

  John Wayne

  Strong Women, Empowering, Empowerment

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• 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

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Sex

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• I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life

  Hillary Clinton

  Life, Husband, Women

  Campaign remarks, Chicago, Ill., 16 Mar. 1992

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• 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

  Inspirational, Success, Mother

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• I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Girl

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.

  Anita Roddick

  Strong Women, Young Entrepreneurs, Empowering

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• I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

  Amy Poehler

  Strong Women, Badass, Powerful

  "Amy Poehler Tells Katie Couric, "I Just Love Bossy Women!"". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. March 28, 2011.

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• 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’.

  Erin McKean

  Mother, Children, Men

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• My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

  Ani DiFranco

  Inspiring, Determination, Self

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  We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Motivational, Strong Women, Voice

  Sheryl Sandberg's Commencement Address Barnard College in New York City, New York, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2011.

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• 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

  Inspiring, Daughter, Strong Women

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Gage, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Ida H. Harper (2017). “THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists”, p.2594, e-artnow

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• The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'

  Shirley Chisholm

  Girl, Equality, Emotional

  "Anthology : Quotations and Sayings of People of Color" by Walter B. Hoard, (p. 36), 1973.

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  I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

  Emma Stone

  Inspiration, Thinking, Girl Power

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

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• I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

  Hillary Clinton

  Women, Home, Feminist

  Campaign remarks, Chicago, Ill., 16 Mar. 1992

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• One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Motivational, Strong Women, Philosophy

  The Second Sex vol. 2, pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949) (translation by H. M. Parshley)

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• We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Strong Women, Believe, Home

  "A Mme. Curie From The Bronx" by Elizabeth Stone, www.nytimes.com. 1978.

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

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, Country, Strong Women

  1979 Interviewed by the Observer four days after becoming Britain's first woman Prime Minister, 8 May.

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• You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

  Brigham Young

  Family, Education, Strong Women

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