Women Quotes

"I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion."

Mia Hamm

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."

"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."

Oprah Winfrey

"Let us pick up our books and our pens. They are our most powerful weapons."

Malala Yousafzai

"I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot.' I want to be thought of as the 'girl who stood up.'"

Malala Yousafzai

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

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."

Toni Morrison

"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation."

Audre Lorde

"The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression."

bell hooks

"The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are."

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Don't think about making women fit the world – think about making the world fit women."

Gloria Steinem

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

Simone de Beauvoir

"At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can."

Frida Kahlo

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

Anne Frank

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened."

"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home."

"One had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap."

Ida B. Wells

"There is no royal flower-strewn path to success."

Madam C. J. Walker

"A country's greatness lies in its undying ideals of love and sacrifice that inspire the mothers of the race."

Sarojini Naidu

"Empowering women is a prerequisite for creating a good nation; when women are empowered, society with stability is assured."

"The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women."

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Anaïs Nin

"You have to write the book that wants to be written."

Madeleine L'Engle

"Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking."

Wangari Maathai

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead