Great Female Quotes:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- Anita Roddick

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

- Anais Nin

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, New Friendship, Hopes And Dreams

You can't shake hands with a closed fist.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Peace, Anger, Hands, Business Woman, Can't Trust Anyone

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

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

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

- Indira Gandhi

topic: War, Hands, India, Business Woman, Can't Trust Anyone

You are more powerful than you think.

- Tim Cook

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

If I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.

- Madam C. J. Walker

topic: Business, Hard Work, Empowerment, Inspiring Business, Inspirational Hard Work

What's the trick to writing a great female character? Make her human.

- Nicole Holofcener

topic: Writing, Character, Female, Female Characters, Great Female

As for music, my tastes are eclectic. Elvis Costello is my all-time favorite. I listen to a lot of jazz, primarily the great female vocalists, and I am very fond of the late cabaret singer Nancy Lamott.

- Laura Lippman

source: Interview with Jon Jordan, www.bookbrowse.com.

topic: Cabaret, All Time Favorite, Vocalist, Great Female

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.

- Art Garfunkel

topic: Artist, Female, Tradition, Christine, Female Artists

The whole point of marriage is to stop you getting anywhere near real life. You think it's a great struggle with the mystery of being. It's more like being smothered in warm cocoa. There's sex, but it's not what you think. Marvellous, for the first fortnight. Then every Wednesday. If there isn't a good late-night concert on the Third. Meanwhile you become a biological functionary. An agent of the great female womb, spawning away, dumping its goods in your lap for succour. Daddy, daddy, we're here, and we're expensive.

- Malcolm Bradbury

topic: Sex, Real, Struggle, Cocoa, Late Night

It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.

- Saint Cecilia

topic: Nice, Color, Female, Great Female

I want to be something special. I want to be known as a great female basketballer.

- Lauren Jackson

topic: Special, Female, Want, Great Female

You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for the most part the music world's changing and change is good. You have to make adjustments if you want to survive in that world.

- Nas

topic: Artist, Guy, Change Is Good, Great Guy, R Kelly

Basically, this industry is mostly run by men, and I think women have a harder time...I've had enough of the "Women in Rock" issues of magazines and all of that. There's no reason why we should have our own separate little genre; that's just ridiculous. Besides, what is the genre? I certainly don't fit into the whole "Lilith" thing (thank God), but I am a female musician. And there are enough other great females in music that don't have to fit into it, either.

- Princess Superstar

topic: Running, Men, Thinking, Lilith, Female Musicians

Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

- Simon Cowell

source: "Simon's kind of town" by Craig Berman, www.today.com. January 18, 2006.

topic: Dresses, Female, Would Be, Great Female, Impersonators