I Am Woman Quotes:

I am woman, hear me roar.

- Helen Reddy

topic: I Am Woman

I am life, I am strength, I am woman.

- Julia de Burgos

topic: I Am Woman

They (the women) will always do it, it seems to me... I am woman and I am strong.

- Pat O'Shane

topic: Strong Women, I Am Strong, I Am Woman

I see explicit covers on magazines, and they're getting even more explicit, and it's like, Are women being empowered, or is this just what sells magazines? Are they feeling pressured, or have they really come into themselves and are saying, 'I am woman, hear me roar?

- Rosie Perez

source: "The Pressure To Take It Off". Interview with Mim Udovitch, www.nytimes.com. June 25, 2000.

topic: Feelings, Magazines, I Am Woman

I am Woman, here me roar...of is that my vacuum cleaner?

- Liz Carpenter

topic: Vacuums, I Am Woman, Cleaners

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

- Helen Reddy

source: "I Am Woman" (song) (1971)

topic: Women, Numbers, Too Much, I Am Woman

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

- Roseanne Barr

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

topic: Inspirational, Being Strong, Strong Women, Powerful Women, Women Equality

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Beauty, Girl, Fashion, My Girl, That Girl

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

- Ayn Rand

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Empowering Women, Try Again

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

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

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

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

topic: Women, Class, Done, Women Equality, Men Women

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.

- Louisa May Alcott

source: Louisa May Alcott (2009). “Work: A Story of Experience: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.305, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Sunshine, Far Away, Aspiration, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Drug Recovery

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

- Erica Jong

source: FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 02, 2015

topic: Spiritual, Witty, Women, Interesting Life, Inconvenient Truth

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

- Marianne Williamson

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

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.

- Rebecca West

topic: Girly, Peace, Time, Radical Feminism, Women Equality

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

- Anais Nin

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Scribbles, Mind Heart

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Inspirational, Country, Women, Women Equality, Inspirational Feminist

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

- Ruth Gordon

topic: Inspirational, Women, Use, I Am Strong, Powerful Women

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Give Me Strength, Self Determination

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

topic: Inspirational, Women, Bad Ass, Female Empowerment, Strong Independent

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 of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

- Marlo Thomas

topic: Women, Equality, Feminist, Women Equality, Women's Rights

I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Inspirational Feminist, International Women's Day

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

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

topic: Strong Women, Empowering, Curiosity, Strong Independent Women, Kept Woman

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

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

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

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

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

topic: Inspiring, Strong Women, Sex, Female Empowerment, Women Equality

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

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Country, Running, Strong Women, Female Empowerment, Powerful Women

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

- Lois Wyse

source: "The Rules According to Dee Dee Myers". Interview With Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, content.time.com. February 29, 2008.

topic: Inspirational, Sorry, Women, Women Equality, Women's Rights

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Strong Women, Destiny, Names, Strong Independent, Strong Independent Women

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Motivational, Women, Law, Women's Suffrage, Women Equality

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Courage, Peace, Integrity, Social Reform, Women's Suffrage

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

- Gloria Steinem

source: Speech at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 23 Sept. 1981

topic: Marriage, Witty, Work, Women Equality, Liberated Woman

I've yet to be on a campus where most women weren't worrying about some aspect of combining marriage, children, and a career. I've yet to find one where many men were worrying about the same thing.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Gloria Steinem (2017). “Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within”, p.887, Open Road Media

topic: Children, Women, Careers, College Campus, I Am Woman

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

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

- John Lennon

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Housework, Behind Every Great Man

There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

- Madeleine Albright

source: "Q&A with Arianna Huffington, co-founder of Huffington Post, on Donald Trump, sleep and the media". Interview with Laura Newberry, www.masslive.com. April 29, 2016.

topic: Business, Women, Helping Others, Empowering Women, Special Places

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

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Strong Women, Equality, White, Women Equality, Strong Independent Women

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

- Madonna Ciccone

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

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Success, Empowering Women, Inspirational Strong Women

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Strength, Inspiring, Fashion, Self Determination, Empowering Women

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

- Indira Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Freedom, Women, Repose, Death Anniversary

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

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

topic: Inspiring, Daughter, Strong Women, Female Empowerment, Strong Independent

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

topic: Inspirational, Success, Spiritual, Empowering Women, Strong Female

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

- Dale Carnegie

source: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2012). “Achingly Alice”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Life Philosophy, About Success

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

- Alice Walker

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Maintaining Peace, Personal Power

When you 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.'

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Looks, Able, Next, Empowering Women, Inspirational Adversity

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