Women History Month Quotes:

I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.

- Sonia Sotomayor

source: "A Justice Deliberates: Sotomayor On Love, Health And Family". "Morning Edition" with Nina Totenberg, www.npr.org. January 12, 2013.

topic: Expectations, Self Respect, Women History Month

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

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

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

- Marie Curie

topic: Life, Encouraging, Being Strong, Live Life To Its Fullest, Marie

I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free person and not to give in to fear. I always felt that it was my right to defend myself if I could. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

- Rosa Parks

topic: Long Ago, Years, Knowing, Empowering Women, I Am Strong

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'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

- Lucille Ball

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Strong Motivational, Strong Women Motivation

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

- Edith Wharton

source: "Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Empowering Women, Social Good

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

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

- Alice Walker

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Maintaining Peace, Personal Power

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

- Ayn Rand

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

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Empowering Women, Try Again

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

- Unknown

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Empowering Women

Let me listen to me and not to them.

- Gertrude Stein

topic: Self Esteem, Healing, Let Me, Women History Month

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

- Frida Kahlo

source: "Gal Gadot's 'Wonder Woman' Scholarship Speech Emphasizes That All Superheros Don't Wear Capes" by Nina Bradley, www.bustle.com. December 07, 2017.

topic: Strong Women, Art, Reality, Wings To Fly, Women History Month

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Nothing Is Impossible, Massive Change

I have the right of education. I have the right to play. I have the right to sing. I have the right to talk. I have the right to go to market. I have the right to speak up.

- Malala Yousafzai

topic: Play, Speak, Women History Month

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

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

topic: Family, Inspiring, Women, Women Equality, Women's Rights

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

- Anais Nin

topic: Being Alone, Men, World, Single Girl, Women Want

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

People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

- Rosa Parks

topic: Giving Up, Tired, People, Women History Month, Women In History

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

- Patti LaBelle

source: FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Mar 07, 2013

topic: Motivational, Mean, Giving, Women History Month

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Witty, Strong Women, Independent, Indian Patriotic, Women's Suffrage

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

- Elizabeth I

source: Speech to troops at Tilbury, England (1588).

topic: Kings, Women, Heart, Women Equality, Kings And Queens

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational History, Striving For Excellence