Women Quotes

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

Virginia Woolf

"I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

Virginia Woolf

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

Simone de Beauvoir

"I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves."

Mary Wollstonecraft

"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!"

Sojourner Truth

"Failure is impossible."

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Remember the ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors."

Abigail Adams

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves."

Marie Curie

"Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others."

Amelia Earhart

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

"We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced."

Malala Yousafzai

"I raise up my voice – not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard."

Malala Yousafzai

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

Malala Yousafzai

"Awake, arise and educate; smash traditions – liberate!"

Savitribai Phule

"When there is oppression, the only self-respecting thing is to rise and say this shall cease today, because my right is justice."

Sarojini Naidu

"I shall not give up my Jhansi."

Rani Lakshmibai

"The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it."

Kalpana Chawla

"There is no chance for the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is not possible for a bird to fly on only one wing."

"There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other."

Harriet Tubman

"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in."

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

Coco Chanel

"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

Jane Austen

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."

Charlotte Brontë