Better Woman Quotes:

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 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

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

- Maya Angelou

topic: Veterans Day, Women, Hero, Fireman, Women Equality

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

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

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

- Margaret Fuller

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

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

- Coco Chanel

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

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

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

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

- Bella Abzug

source: Bella S. Abzug (1972). “Bella!: Ms. Abzug Goes to Washington”, Saturday Review Press

topic: Jobs, Women, Memorable, Women's Suffrage, Women Equality

Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

- Joan Baez

topic: Men, Giving, Feminist, Softness, Men Women

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

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

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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Fashion, Improve Self Esteem, Inspiring Business

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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

- Shirley Chisholm

topic: Girl, Equality, Emotional, Female Empowerment, Women Equality

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 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

I am so not a proper, good female. I can't dance in high heels and I'm just so not girly, but then I see these men with these banging bodies, dancing in heels, singing, and having so much fun with so much make-up on. That makes me honestly want to be a better woman.

- Kesha

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

topic: Inspirational, Dance, Girly, Banging, Better Woman

The man who sanctifies his wife understands that this is his divinely ordained responsibility... Is my wife more like Christ because she is married to me? Or is she like Christ in spite of me? Has she shrunk from His likeness because of me? Do I sanctify her or hold her back? Is she a better woman because she is married to me?

- R. Kent Hughes

topic: Responsibility, Men, Wife, Better Woman, Sanctify

Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.

- Bette Davis

topic: Home, Thinking, Work Out, Better Woman

I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.

- Andrew Eldritch

topic: England, Social, Institutions, Better Woman

Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal relations, time to become better men, time to become better women, time to become better and more independent citizens.

- Samuel Gompers

topic: Independent, Men, Thinking, Valuable Things, Time To Think