Women Quotes

"Well-behaved women seldom make history."

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."

"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you."

Zora Neale Hurston

"Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience."

Mary Wollstonecraft

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

Virginia Woolf

"I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely."

Simone de Beauvoir

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

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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"Truth is powerful and it prevails."

Sojourner Truth

"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done."

Marie Curie

"Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift – there is nothing small about it."

Florence Nightingale

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear."

"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure."

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."

Amelia Earhart

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

"I tell my story not because it is unique, but because it is not."

Malala Yousafzai

"When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful."

Malala Yousafzai

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"The function of freedom is to free someone else."

Toni Morrison

"Your silence will not protect you."

Audre Lorde

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

Audre Lorde

"Feminism is for everybody."

bell hooks

"We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller."

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age."

Gloria Steinem

"A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?'"

Betty Friedan