Women In History Quotes:

Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.

- Dolores Huerta

source: "Latino Poets Honor Civil Rights Leader Dolores Huerta at Smithsonian" by Patricia Guadalupe, www.nbcnews.com. March 9, 2016.

topic: Women In History, Walks, Streets

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

- Vivienne Westwood

source: "Talking dirty". www.theguardian.com. February 21, 2001.

topic: Women, Artist, Thinking, Women In History

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'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

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

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

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

- Ani DiFranco

topic: Inspiring, Determination, Self, Self Determination, Female Empowerment

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

- Ella Fitzgerald

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, Empowering Women, Powerful Women

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech, Individual Expression, Insecure People

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

- Elizabeth Blackwell

topic: History, Development, Women's Suffrage, Women's Rights, Women Empowerment

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

- Maya Angelou

source: USA Today, March 5, 1988.

topic: Courage, Practice, Bravery, Merciful God, Be Courageous

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Motivational, Women, Law, Women's Suffrage, Women Equality

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Confidence, Children, Insecure, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Inspirational Feminist, Strong Female

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Inspiring, Confidence, Children, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: A Return to Love ch. 7 (1992). Frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Encouraging, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Toughness doesn't have to come in a pinstripe suit.

- Dianne Feinstein

topic: Women, Suits, Toughness, Women In History

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

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.

- Marianne Williamson

source: Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

topic: Confidence, Fear, Famous Motivational, Inaugural Speech, Child Of God

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Speech at Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 23 Sept. 1981

topic: Marriage, Witty, Work, Women Equality, Liberated Woman

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: World, Inaugural Speech, Discovering Yourself, Inspirational Beauty, Sensitive Person

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Powerful, Deepest Fear, Our Deepest Fear, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

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

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

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

- Loretta Young

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

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

- Nora Ephron

source: FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jun 26, 2012

topic: Life, Inspiring, Encouraging, Self Determination, Powerful Women

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Inspire Women, Motivational Action

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Inspiring, Women, Equality, Social Equality, Social Groups

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Sad, Female Empowerment, Inspirational Strong Women

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

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

- Gloria Steinem

source: "Why the Internet Is Full of Feminist Quotes Falsely Attributed to Gloria Steinem" by Ruth Graham, www.slate.com. October 05, 2017.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Poor Planning, Lost Dreams

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

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

- Eleanor Powell

topic: God, Inspirational Graduation, High School Graduation, Off To College, Motivational Graduation

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

- Janis Joplin

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

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Strong Women, Equality, White, Women Equality, Strong Independent Women

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

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

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

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

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Courage, Peace, Integrity, Social Reform, Women's Suffrage

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

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Love, Happiness, Inspiring, Hungry For Love, Inspirational Charity

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

- Mae Jemison

topic: Women, Imagination, Limits, Career Women, Inspire Women

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

- Margaret Fuller

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Education, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge Learning