Women Empowerment Sayings and Quotes

 

Women Empowerment Sayings and Quotes

Women’s empowerment isn’t just a catchy slogan, it’s a key factor in the social and economic success of nations. When women succeed, everyone benefits. Women’s rights and gender equality have come a long way, from Susan B. Anthony in the suffrage movement to young activist Malala Yousafzai. Below you’ll find a collection of the best, wise, and inspirational women empowerment quotes.

there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

 

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

 

A woman is a full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.

 

The woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her who struggles for expression.

 

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

 

Educate a man and you educate an individual. Educate a woman and you educate a family.

 

The empowered woman is powerful beyond measure and beautiful beyond description.

 

If women understood and exercised their power they could remake the world.

 

A woman is like a teabag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

 

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

 

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

 

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.

 

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

 

Don't just stand for the success of other women - insist on it.

 

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

 

No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.

 

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

 

When women participate in the economy, everyone benefits.

 

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women's voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

 

Women are the real architects of society.

 

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

 

I do not wish [women] to have power over men but over themselves.

 

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

 

Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

 

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

 

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.

 

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

 

The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just, and peaceful life for all.

Women are not the problem. They're the solution.

The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.

 

I tell my daughters to have their voice in this world, and it became clear I needed to role model that.

 

I think the girl who can earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.

 

In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.

 

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

 

But there's a hope that's waiting for you in the dark / You should know you're beautiful just the way you are / And you don't have to change a thing, the world could change its heart / No scars to your beautiful, we're stars and we're beautiful

 

It is terrifying to people when women step up and start owning the story that they have not owned. And I’m seeing so much of this, and it is a seismic shift.

 

There’s nothing more threatening than a powerful woman, and there’s nothing more threatening to the current order of things than women powerfully owning their own narrative. It’s so threatening to people, to women as well, and it’s threatening the order of things.

 

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 learning.

 

I am a woman with thoughts and questions and shit to say. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story⁠—I will.

 

The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved. Women who live bravely, both tender and fierce. Women of indomitable will.

 

I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change...I’m changing the things I cannot accept.

 

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.

 

A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.

 

A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.

 

She was powerful not because she wasn’t scared but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear.

 

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

 

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

 

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourselves. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

 

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves.

 

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars. 

 

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.

 

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

 

Because she said what she thought and because she smiled only when she felt like smiling, and not constantly and vacuously, America's cheapest caricature was cast on her, the angry black woman.

 

Of course, I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

 

Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe you must become its soul.

 

I changed what I could, and what I couldn't, I endured.

 

What is compromising? Compromise for what? Compromising for what reason? A man comes into my life and I have to compromise? For what? For what? A relationship is a relationship that has to be earned! Not to compromise for.

The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am.

Women share this planet fifty-fifty and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped.

 

Hey girl, hey girl / We can make it easy if we lift each other / Hey girl, hey girl / We don't need to keep on one-in' up another / Hey girl, hey girl / Hey girl, hey girl / If you lose your way / Just know that I got you

 

I hadn't been aware that there were doors closed to me until I started knocking on them.

 

You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.

 

Women are always saying, 'We can do anything that men can do.' But men should be saying, 'We can do anything that women can do.'

 

There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.

 

I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior. I need a superior-inferior man.

 

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

 

Women will be hidden no more. We will not remain hidden figures. We have names. … It was a woman that gave you Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was a woman that gave you Malcolm X. And according to the Bible, it was a woman that gave you Jesus. Don't you ever forget it?

 

She's just a girl, and she's on fire / Hotter than a fantasy, longer like a highway / She's living in a world, and it's on fire / Feeling the catastrophe, but she knows she can fly away

 

[This is] the hope I have for women: that we can start to see ourselves—and encourage men to see us—as more than just the sum of our sexual parts: not as virgins or whores, as mothers or girlfriends, or as existing only concerning men, but as people with independent desires, hopes and abilities. . . . For women to move forward, and for men to break free, we need to overcome the masculinity status quo-together.

 

You’re not too fat. You’re not too loud. You’re not too smart. You’re not unladylike. There is nothing wrong with you.

 

No woman should be told she can't make decisions about her own body. When women's rights are under attack, we fight back.

 

We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.

 

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

 

I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman's question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think anyone will deny us. 

 

The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied ... strength and beauty must go together.

 

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

 

I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.

 

I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. … We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

 

A woman has always been the chief sufferer under this merciless machinery of the statutory law. Humbly she has borne the weight of man-made laws, surrendering to their tyranny even her right over her own body... Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises... If she must break the law to establish her right to voluntary motherhood, then the law shall be broken.

 

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something that others are determined not to be done.

 

And one day she discovered that she was fierce and strong, and full of fire and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears.

 

I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.

 

Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women.

 

I am a woman / Phenomenally / Phenomenal woman / That's me.

 

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.

 

You could make a case that, along with the technological revolution, the most provocative upending destabilizing thrilling change in the course of human history is that we’re finally in it. … We're here now, women are in the world, and we will not be bullied.

 

A strong woman understands that gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts.

Fill your life with women that empower you, that help you believe in your magic, and aid them to believe in their own exceptional power and their incredible magic too. Women that believe in each other can survive anything. Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars.

 

It is not in the shallow physical imitation of men that women will assert first their equality and later their superiority but in the awakening of the intellect of women.

 

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

 

I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

 

There's something so special about a woman who dominates in a man's world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer.

 

Women's freedom is a sign of social freedom.

 

we need more love / not from men / but from ourselves / and each other

 

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant to be your own person, be INDEPENDENT.

 

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn't be that women are the exception

 

The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you’re very strong, be extremely kind, and above all, be humble.

 

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

 

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!

 

Sometimes when women get elected to positions of power they start acting like men. They start being tough like men. My vision and understanding of the world is a woman’s understanding of the world, not a man’s—I have never tried to copy a man. I think it’s very important that a woman remembers that she is a woman and not a man. You’re a woman, so keep being a woman and show women and men that you are a woman. This sends the very important message that women are equal to men.