Women Power Quotes:

Women power is a formidable force.

- Gro Harlem Brundtland

topic: Memorable, Women Power, Force

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

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Sad, Female Empowerment, Inspirational Strong Women

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

- Melissa Etheridge

topic: Inspirational, Beautiful, Powerful, Inspirational Strong Women, Inspire Women

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

source: "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Confidence, Empowering Women, Perserverance

Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.

- Nancy Pelosi

topic: Running, Country, Strong Women, Inspirational Feminist, Career Women

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

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Women, International Women's Day, Sexy Women

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

- Brigham Young

topic: Family, Education, Women, Female Empowerment, Inspirational Feminist

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

- Edith Wharton

source: "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Empowering Women, Social Good

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

- Ella Fitzgerald

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, Empowering Women, Powerful Women

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

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

- Simone de Beauvoir

source: Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

topic: Age, Born, Male Privilege, Female Empowerment, Inspirational Strong Women

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes - understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

- Arianna Huffington

topic: Positive, Success, Business, Business Woman, Woman Leader

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Strength, Empowering Women, Powerful Women

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

- James A. Garfield

topic: Teacher, Encouragement, Appreciation, Hard Truths, Powerful Women

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

- Martina Navratilova

topic: Inspirational, Thinking, Keys, Women Power

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational History, Striving For Excellence

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech, Individual Expression, Insecure People

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

- Mae West

source: "Mae West: 'YOLO,' Before YOLO Was a Thing", bigthink.com. September 25, 2015.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Is Simple, Live Life To Its Fullest

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Positive, Happiness, Success, Empowering Women, Inspirational Feminist

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

- Hillary Clinton

source: Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

topic: Home, Tea, Cookies, Female Empowerment, International Women's Day

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

- Anne Frank

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, Untapped Potential, Good News

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

- Audre Lorde

source: "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

topic: Inspirational, Encouragement, Powerful, Powerful Women, Power And Control

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Confidence, Children, Insecure, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Life, Encouraging, Time, Giving Love, Small Things In Life

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

topic: Being Alone, Men, World, Single Girl, Women Want

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

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

topic: Strong Women, Courage, Struggle, Female Empowerment, Powerful Women

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

topic: Confidence, Children, Fear, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself

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

topic: Mother, Strong Women, Thinking, Young Entrepreneurs, Female Empowerment

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

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Girl, Empowerment, Politics, Marginalization, Women Empowerment

Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings

- Cheris Kramarae

topic: Bad Ass, Feminism, Radical, Radical Feminism, Inspirational Feminist

You are more powerful than you think.

- Tim Cook

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Powerful Women, Strong Female, Strong Heart

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

topic: Confidence, Fear, Famous Motivational, Inaugural Speech, Child Of God

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: World, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself, Inspirational Beauty, Sensitive Person

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

- Anita Roddick

topic: Entrepreneur, Different, Standing Out, Young Entrepreneurs, Female Empowerment

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Powerful, Deepest Fear, Our Deepest Fear, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

- Erica Jong

source: Erica Jong (2007). “Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters”, p.90, Penguin

topic: Love, Life, Inspiring, You Don't Love Me, Long Relationship

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.

- Marissa Mayer

source: "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, edition.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Women Leadership, Business Woman

Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

topic: Strong Women, Real, Empowering, Inspirational Feminist, International Women's Day

If you don't risk anything you risk everything

- Mark Zuckerberg

topic: Motivational, Strong Women, Hippie, You Don't Love Me, Bridal Shower

We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.

- Beyonce Knowles

topic: Views, Feminist, Perception, Inspirational Feminist, Kickass Women

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

- Mark Twain

topic: Positive, Secret, Getting Started, Manageable, Marketing And Sales

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Way In Life, Make Me Feel Better

Failure is not the opposite of success; it's part of success.

- Arianna Huffington

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

topic: Opposites, Powerful Women, Successful Women, Business Woman, Overcoming Failure

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

- Mary Wollstonecraft

source: "The original suffragette: the extraordinary Mary Wollstonecraft" by Bee Rowlatt, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2015.

topic: Women, Men, Wish, Women Equality, Equal Rights

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

source: FLATT Interview, flattmag.com.

topic: Positive, Firsts, Harness, Strong Female, Around The Corner