Women Quotes

"Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time."

Sappho

"Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper."

Christine de Pizan

"I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king."

Queen Elizabeth I

"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world."

Mary Wollstonecraft

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."

Jane Austen

"Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel."

Charlotte Brontë

"Whoever lives true life will love true love."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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

"Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice."

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"How very little can be done under the spirit of fear."

Florence Nightingale

"The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be."

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."

Virginia Woolf

"That's what I consider true generosity: you give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing."

Simone de Beauvoir

"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company?"

Zora Neale Hurston

"There is a growing need for Hindu lady doctors in India, and I volunteer to qualify myself for one."

Anandibai Joshi

"Go, get education, be self-reliant, be industrious; work, gather wisdom and riches."

Savitribai Phule

"Educate your women first and leave them to themselves; then they will tell you what reforms are necessary for them."

"Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities."

"Woman, with the grace of your fingers you touched my things and order came out like music."

"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."

Arundhati Roy

"Don't let anyone tell you that you can't do something because you are a woman."

Mary Kom

"Whatever you do, throw your heart into it."

Indra Nooyi

"Each person must live their life as a model for others."

"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members."

Coretta Scott King

"You can't be what you can't see."

Marian Wright Edelman