Proud Woman Quotes:

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

- Margaret Thatcher

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

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Powerful, Empowering Women, Powerful Women

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

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

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

I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.

- Dido Armstrong

topic: Strong, Independent, Honest, Strong Independent, Strong Independent Women

A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming.

- George Eliot

topic: Pride, Looks, Proud, Reinforcement, Unbecoming

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Motivational, Mother, Fashion, I Am Strong, Inspirational Feminist

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: People, Done, Want, Independent Person, Powerful Women

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

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

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

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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

- Amy Poehler

topic: Powerful, Badass, Women, Female Empowerment, Powerful Women

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

- Katharine Hepburn

topic: Independent, Men, Support, International Women's Day, Strong Independent Women

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

- Oscar Wilde

source: Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1160, GENERAL PRESS

topic: Women, Psychology, Facts, Women Strength, Women And Strength

I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Motivational, Girl, Badass, Inspirational Feminist, Strong Girl

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 have been called 'Bongshell' the day I stepped into showbiz. So, any adjective coming my way, I take it positively. Sometimes it's also entertaining, but I don't feel bad about it. I'm a proud woman.

- Bipasha Basu

topic: Adjectives, Proud, Way, Proud Woman

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

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

- Malala Yousafzai

source: Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

topic: Powerful, Feminist, Half, Women Equality, Inspirational Feminist

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

- Gloria Steinem

source: "Happy 80th, Gloria Steinem" by Kathleen McCartney, www.cnn.com. March 25, 2014.

topic: Women, Feminist, Humanity, Women Equality, Inspirational Feminist

I work every day to live up to my mother's model. She was a very proud woman. And she really prepared me to go off into the world as a proud daughter.

- Anita Hill

source: "Anita Hill Reflects on 20 Years Since Clarence Thomas Hearings". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 10, 2011.

topic: Daughter, Mother, World, Proud Woman

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

source: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1969). “History of Women Suffrage”, Ayer Co Pub

topic: Sex, Proud, Feels, Proud Woman