Great Women Quotes:

There's some great women doing TV. I would love to do a Grey's Anatomy-type show. I'm a big fan.

- Elizabeth Berkley

topic: Fans, Tvs, Great Women, Grey's Anatomy

Behind every great woman is a great behind!

- Rhonda Shear

source: Interview with Caps, www.retrojunk.com.

topic: Great Women, Behinds, Behind Every Great Man

All great men usually are awakened by the great women in their lives. No matter what friction is there, if that relationship was there, that usually is their best friend, at the end of the day.

- Mandy Patinkin

source: Source: deadline.com

topic: Men, Great Women, Great Men

She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for finding great women.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Knack, Way, Great Women

I know that there are a lot of great women that have gone before me, so it's important to acknowledge them.

- Ava DuVernay

source: Source: thesource.com

topic: Important, Gone, Great Women

You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.

- James E. Faust

topic: Uplifting, Good Woman, Great Women

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

- Anna Quindlen

source: Anna Quindlen (2009). “Being Perfect”, p.15, Random House

topic: Confidence, Letting Go, Being Yourself, Discovering Yourself, Amazing 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

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

- Janis Joplin

topic: Positive, Being Yourself, Strong Women, Empowering Women, Women Equality

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

- Barbara Corcoran

source: Twitter post from Apr 14, 2017

topic: Best Success, Heels, Inspirational Strong Women, Business Woman, Strong Female

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

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Inspirational, Cute, Inspiring, Definition Of Beauty, Inspirational Beauty

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

- Margaret Fuller

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Education, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge Learning

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 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

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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Impossible Dream, Pursue Your Dreams

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

- Coco Chanel

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

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

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

topic: Doors, Long, Looks, Daily Work, Always Happy

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

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

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

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

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: Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership, Empowering Women, Improve Self Esteem

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

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

- John Lennon

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

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

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

- Maya Angelou

topic: Girl, Teenage, World, Female Empowerment, That Girl

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

- Mae Jemison

topic: Women, Imagination, Limits, Career Women, Inspire Women

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

- Madeleine Albright

source: "Madeleine Albright: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Empowering Women, Women Equality

Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

- Anne Sweeney

topic: Positive, Proud, Achieve, Powerful Women, Successful 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

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 learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.

- Ginni Rometty

topic: Positive, Growth, Comfort, Coexist, Powerful Women

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.

- Audre Lorde

topic: Littles, Next, Push Yourself, Strong Female, Great Women

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

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

My mustrious lordship, i'll show you what a woman can do

- Artemisia Gentileschi

topic: Art, Lordship, Shows, Female Empowerment, Strong Independent Women

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

- Caterina Fake

topic: Business, Important, Entrepreneurship, Inspired To Work, Business Woman

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

- Mother Teresa

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

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

- Joyce Brothers

topic: Love, Romantic, Women, Pure Love, Hunches

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Inspirational Feminist, Strong Female

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

It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

- J. K. Rowling

source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets ch. 18 (1999)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Make The Right Choice, Making Good Choices

Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others.

- Amelia Earhart

topic: Courage, Women, Failure, Women Want, I Want A Woman

It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Children, Women, Fate, Great Women

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

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

topic: Mother, Husband, Father, Great Wife, Great Women

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

- Barbara De Angelis

source: Barbara De Angelis (1995). “Real Moments”, Dell

topic: Real, Being Alone, Reflection, Inspire Women, Business Woman

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

- Melinda Gates

topic: Strong Women, Voice, Definitions, Female Empowerment, Women Equality

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

- Sara Blakely

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting, Empowering Women, Powerful Women

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

- Audrey Hepburn

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Positive, Makeup And Beauty, Manicures

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

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

- Madonna Ciccone

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

topic: Strong Women, Memorable, Feminist Art, Powerful Women, Women Equality

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

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