Female Power Quotes:

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

You are more powerful than you think.

- Tim Cook

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

Don't be afraid to speak up for yourself. Keep fighting for your dreams!

- Gabby Douglas

topic: Girl, Dream, Fighting, Girl Power, Female Power

Confidence is the only key. I know a lot of people who aren't traditionally 'beautiful' - not symmetrical or perfect-bodied or perfect-skinned. But none of that matters because all that shines through is their confidence, humor, and comfort with themselves. I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.

- Emma Stone

topic: Beautiful, Badass, Thinking, Female Empowerment, Inspirational Strong Women

It's possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.

- Taylor Swift

topic: Girl, People, Stomping, Girl Power, Female Power

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Passion, Want, Kickass Women, Women Strength

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

- Myriam Miedzian

source: Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.133, Lantern Books

topic: Men, Female, Killing, Female Power

When we trust the makers of baby formula more than we do our own ability to nourish our babies, we lose a chance to claim an aspect of our power as women. Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature's evolution. Countless women have regained trust in their bodies through nursing their children, even if they weren't sure at first that they could do it. It is an act of female power, and I think of it as feminism in its purest form.

- Christiane Northrup

topic: Baby, Children, Believe, Female Power

In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be used as a form of aggression. ... But until we finally untangle sexuality and aggression, there will be more pornography and less erotica. There will be little murders in our beds - and very little love.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Sex, Littles, Imbalance, Male Female, Female Power

I want men and women to both feel a part in the flourishment of female power. So I want to celebrate that power that women have, that they acquired and are still acquiring all over the world. And it's kind of my way of joining the movement and bringing positive attention to an overgrowing awareness of females everywhere who are breaking the mold.

- Zella Day

topic: Men, Mold, Female, Female Power

Part of me has always resisted the Western clichéd image of Muslim women, depicting them as nothing more than silent victims. My art, without denying 'repression,' is a testimony to unspoken female power and the continuing protest in Islamic culture.

- Shirin Neshat

source: Interview with Dorna Khazeni, www.believermag.com. August 2003.

topic: Art, Women, Islamic, Islamic Culture, Depiction

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

- Camille Paglia

source: Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.34, Canongate Books

topic: Female, Lasts, Worship, Western Society, Female Power

Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family.

- Margaret Way

topic: Female, Destruction, Certain, Female Power

Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Love, Hate, Men, Female Power

Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she brings the most dangerous creature on the earth, the human male, to his knees.

- Jayne Ann Krentz

source: Jayne Ann Krentz (1992). “Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance”, p.5, University of Pennsylvania Press

topic: Book, Winning, Romance, Female Power, Romance Novel

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I'm for anything life-affirmative. I'm for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who's different.

- Matthew McConaughey

topic: Gay, Good Friend, Different, Female Power

The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact opposite. I think she now is more enslaved, maybe even more than the housewife was; because she's so out of her power, and imitating male power is not female power.

- Kenny Loggins

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

topic: Thinking, Opposites, Males, Liberated Woman, Female Power

The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and independent power.

- Carol P. Christ

topic: Independent, Female, Goddess, Beneficence, Female Power