Women Empowerment Quotes

Quotes about women empowerment can be found everywhere, but they hold more weight when coming from powerful women themselves. These quotes celebrate the strength and resilience of women, and remind us that we are capable of anything we set our minds to.

In the era of women’s empowerment, it is more important than ever to have a voice. These quotes will help you find your voice and use it to empower other women.

“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”

Margaret Thatcher

“We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave – to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential. ” – Malala Yousafzai

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

Madonna

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall

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

Madeleine Albright

“Sí se puede!” (“Yes we can!”) – Dolores Huerta

Women Supporting Women Quotes

“Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong, it’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.”

G.D. Anderson

Women Supporting Women Quotes

“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” – Audre Lord

“I am a woman / Phenomenally / Phenomenal woman / That’s me.”

Maya Angelou

“I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.” – Malala Yousafzai

“A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.”

Melinda Gates

“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” – Gloria Steinem

“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.”

Gloria Steinem

Short Empowering Quotes

“You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you.” – Katie Couric

“There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.”

Michelle Obama

“Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.” – G.D. Anderson

“When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man; when a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.”

Bette Davis

“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” – Maya Angelou

“I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.”

Diane von Furstenberg

Short Women Empowerment Quotes

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” – J.K. Rowling

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

Audre Lorde

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

“Feminism is for everybody.”

bell hooks

“I think that passion is the secret ingredient that drives hard work and excellence.” – Kelly Ayotte

Women Empowerment Quotes in English

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

“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.”

Nancy Pelosi

“As women, we have to start appreciating our own worth and each other’s worth. Seek out strong women to befriend, to align yourself with, to learn from, to collaborate with, to be inspired by, to support, and enlightened by.” – Madonna

“Words have power. TV has power. My pen has power.”

Shonda Rhimes

“Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.” – Susana Martinez

Women Empowerment Quotes Tagalog

“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.”

Sheryl Sandberg

“Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.” – Gloria Steinem

“We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.”

Beyoncé

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou

“Women must learn to play the game as men do.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

Women Empowerment Quotes From Books

“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.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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.”

Meryl Streep

“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher

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

Kamala Harris

Short Feminist Quotes

“Some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference. That is just not true. Often, the best thing we can do is turn down the volume. When the sound is quieter, you can actually hear what someone else is saying. And that can make a world of difference.” – Nikki Haley

“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.”

Amy Schumer

“You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female.’” – Erin McKean

“For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious—or whatever we please. We are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution.

Naomi Wolf

“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

“I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Women-Empowerment-Quotes Goodreads

“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.” – Rihanna

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

Sheryl Sandberg

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” – Nora Ephron

“Human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights, once and for all.”

Hillary Clinton

“You could certainly say that I’ve never underestimated myself. There’s nothing wrong with being ambitious.” – Angela Merkel

“Women’s freedom is the sign of social freedom.”

Rosa Luxemburg

“They cannot stand that a refugee, a black woman, an immigrant, a Muslim, shows up in Congress thinking she’s equal to them. But I say to them, ‘How else did you expect me to show up?'”

Ilhan Omar

“Women have discovered that they cannot rely on men’s chivalry to give them justice.”

Helen Keller

“Maybe it just boils down to: I’m a woman who’s really into her career, so I’m obsessed with the craft of my work. … There’s a romance in that for me.”

Mitski

“In my opinion, the most exciting potential of women of color formations resides in the possibility of politicizing this identity—basing the identity on politics rather than the politics on identity.”

Angela Davis

“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”

Toni Morrison

“In life there is no real safety except for self-belief.” – Madonna

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

Arundhati Roy

“‘Very well,’ I said angrily, ‘Start the man, and I’ll start the same day for some other newspaper and beat him.'”

Nellie Bly

“I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.”

Jane Austen

“With each generation, women’s ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn’t mean everything is perfect or that our work is finished.” – Cathy McMorris Rodgers

“That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman?”

Sojourner Truth

“Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That’s my life motto.” – Demi Lovato

“More and more women are realizing that only collective strength and action will allow us to be free to fight for the kind of society that meets basic human needs.”

Roxanne Dunbar

“Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women’s liberation … none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.”

Barbara Ehrenreich

“Women have to harness their power—it’s absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take the first no. And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.” – Cher