Womans Day Quotes:

Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Howard (earl of Carlisle) (1852). “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, p.90

topic: Wake Up, Womans Day

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

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

- Farrah Fawcett

source: "Love and Intimate Relationships: Journeys of the Heart" by Norman M. Brown, Ellen S. Amatea, sychology Press, (p. 297), 2000.

topic: Women, Memorable, Intuition, International Women's Day, Womans Day

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

- Samuel Richardson

topic: Beautiful, Beautiful Women, Steps, International Women's Day, Womans Day

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams.

- Lady Gaga

topic: Dream, Men, Empowering Women, Career Women, Inspirational Strong Women

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Girly, Morning, Motivation, Womans Day, Cultural Barriers

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

- Amelia Earhart

source: "On a wing and a prayer" by Maxie Szalwinska, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2007.

topic: Motivational, Women, Blessing, Inspirational Feminist, Strong Powerful Women

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

- Mark Twain

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, International Women's Day, Womans Day

Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

topic: Men, Needs, Safe, Womans Day, Suffrage

I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Love, Inspirational, Revolution, International Women's Day, Womans Day

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

- Loretta Young

topic: Empowerment, Crowds, Charming, International Women's Day, Charming 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

Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book.

- Malala Yousafzai

topic: Girl, Book, Terrorism, Womans Day

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

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

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”

topic: Home, Tea, Cookies, Female Empowerment, International Women's Day

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 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

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.1027, Modern Library

topic: Beauty, Beautiful, Girl, Womans Day

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

- Dinah Shore

topic: Witty, Men, Way, Unmarried, Womans Day

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Beauty, Girl, Fashion, My Girl, That Girl

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

- Golda Meir

topic: Funny, Work, Memorable, International Women's Day, Womans Day

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

- Timothy Leary

source: "Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said". Book by Robert Byrne, No. 40, 1986.

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Women, Female Empowerment, Women Equality

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

- Charlotte Bunch

topic: Views, Issues, Feminism, Gestalt, Womans Day

Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.

- Mary McLeod Bethune

topic: Inspirational, Time, Women, International Women's Day, Womans Day

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

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers.

- Margaret Sanger

topic: Inspirational, Mother, Race, International Women's Day, Womans Day

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

- Tim Allen

topic: Funny, Witty, Car, Womans Day, Womens Day

Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

- Aristotle

topic: Sexy Women, Men Women, Women Bashing, Womans Day, Elegant Woman

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

- Jane Austen

topic: Women, Hate, Independent, Inspirational Feminist, International Women's Day

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

- Maya Angelou

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

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

- Betty Friedan

source: "Feminist icon Betty Friedan dies aged 85" by Jamie Doward, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2006.

topic: Shining, Feminist, Kitchen, Inspirational Feminist, International Women's Day

Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.

- Emma Bonino

topic: Creative, Sometimes, Reason, International Women's Day, Womans Day

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: "You Learn by Living".

topic: Motivational, Strength, Being Yourself, Individual Responsibility, International Women's Day

And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

- Barbara Bush

source: Barbara Bush's Commencement Address at the Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.wellesley.edu. June 1, 1990.

topic: Inspirational, Women, White, Somewhere Out There, Womans Day

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 women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

- Aristotle Onassis

source: Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

topic: Funny Love, Witty, Money, Makin Money, Inspirational Money Making

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

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Women, Power, Eyeglasses, International Women's Day, Womans Day

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

- Maya Angelou

source: 1975 Interview in California Living,14 May. Collected in Conversations with Maya Angelou (1989).

topic: Love, Women, Sadness, International Women's Day, Womans Day

The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that...women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.

- Louise Otto-Peters

topic: Women, Thinking, Today, Womans Day, Women History Month

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Mom, Mother, Class, Empowering Women, Being A Mother

Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.

- Nancy Pelosi

topic: Running, Country, Strong Women, Inspirational Feminist, Career Women

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

- Janis Joplin

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

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

- Rudyard Kipling

source: Rudyard Kipling (2016). “Collected Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated Edition): 5 Novels & 350+ Short Stories, Poetry, Historical Military Works and Autobiographical Writings from one of the most popular writers in England, known for The Jungle Book, Kim, The Man Who Would Be King”, p.724, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

topic: Women, Intuition, Certainty, Clever Woman, International Women's Day

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

- Nancy Lopez

topic: Fear, Positivity, Voice, Sound Judgement, Sound Judgment