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Ahhh, women, the silent and meek housekeepers, the unacknowledged grey cardinals with a well-deserved place in the kitchen. Thankfully, the times when the sentence above would’ve made sense are long gone (but not forgotten), and all thanks to the fair sex themselves. It’s women that have raised generation upon generation of people destined to make our world a better place. With love, care, and compassion. It’s women that have changed society’s view on many pressing issues. All with love, care, and compassion. It’s the ladies that have made some of the most important breakthroughs in science, and it’s the fairer sex that turns out to be the most worthy leaders of countries. Because they do it all with love, care, and compassion. And that is probably why women are so strong, so powerful, and intelligent (despite being told for ages that all they are good for is knitting, making sandwiches, and being pleasant for the eye).

This article is truly a celebration of women - their words gathered in one place make it a dynamite read, sure to inspire you. Some of these powerful women’s quotes might even change your perspective on life 180 degrees, and it will be enlightening! And these are also not just some ladies (although every woman has the qualities to be mighty); these smart words came from scientists, politicians, writers, and actresses who have paved their paths all by themselves, proving that they (and we!) can do it all.

Now, hopefully, our intro made you quite excited about what’s to come, and we promise these quotes by women won’t disappoint you but rather give you some quite nutritious food for thought. So pick the ones that lit a fire in you, vote for them, and don’t forget to tell the world about these intelligent, brave, and affectionate ladies!

#1

Charlotte Whitton quote on women “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” — Charlotte Whitton

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It helps when you know your are already thrice as better as men!

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#2

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.” – Dolly Parton

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#3

“Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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#4

“We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis. […] And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself?” – Greta Thunberg

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#5

Malala Yousafzai quote on raising your voice “I raise up my voice—not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard… We cannot succeed when half of us are held back.” – Malala Yousafzai

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“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” – Angela Davis

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Amen! Changing what you can't and won't accept is hard but worth the energy.

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#7

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

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is the same person who said there'd never be a woman as the prime minister during her lifetime. That's kinda funny.

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“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” —Ingrid Bergman

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I always say "happiness is when your inner world and outer world matches"

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#9

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

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Anne Frank quote on people being good “I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” – Anne Frank

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She never would have guessed that her heroism and strength would change the lives of millions.

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“Understand that getting help isn’t a sign of weakness but a sign of strength.” – Michelle Obama

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Unfortunately most of the help these days is less than helpful

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#12

“Some women choose to follow men, and some choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.” – Lady Gaga

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“If fighting for women’s health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the women’s card, then deal me in.” — Hillary Clinton

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Amen! Say it again for those in the back that still want inequality to make themselves feel more "important!!" 😎

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“Every time someone writes that I play ‘strong women’ what they’re implying is that most women aren’t. How about I just play well-written parts?” — Jessica Chastain

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Makes me wonder, has there ever been a critic who wrote "HE played a strong man". ??

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Amelia Earhart quote on doing something “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” —Amelia Earhart

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#16

“If you live off a man’s compliments, you’ll die from his criticism.” – Cornelius Lindsey

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#17

“It’s not your job to be likeable. It’s your job to be yourself. Someone will like you anyway.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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“Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.” — Diana Ross

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Not as hard when you have the money and fame which opens more doors allowing more access,

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#19

“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” —Lucille Ball

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Carly Simon quote on being a strong woman “A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.” — Carly Simon

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“Women that believe in each other can survive anything. Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars.” – Nikita Gill

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#22

“When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.” – Barbara Taylor Bradford

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#23

“I’ve often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there’s a fight to be won. If a woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.” — Karen Hawkins

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And history shows that there were many female warriors who got written out of history.. we are realizing many skeletons of warrior burials are actual female skeletons now. It never occurred to men that they might be women.

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#24

“Call me whatever you want. It’s not going to stop me from trying to do the right thing. Because it doesn’t just affect me, it affects all the other women who are in this with me, and it affects all the other men who are in this with me, too.” — Emma Watson

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She's shared horrible stories of how the world treated a young girl transforming into womanhood and then trying to find an identity. Many of them are quite disturbing. She got her first stalker when she was 12 years old. She nearly dropped out of the Potter movies but says she stayed because of all the young girls who looked up to Hermoine as a character and her as a person. A 16 year old girl decided to become a role model and advocate so it wouldn't happen to others. That takes a lot of courage.

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Nayyirah Waheed quote on belonging yourself “I am mine before I am anyone else’s.” – Nayyirah Waheed

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am the only one who can choose if I share part of myself with anybody else.

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“Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do… but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.” — Venus Williams

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

There's a difference between being genuinely proud of yourself and entitlement. Folks like to confuse the two and can't discern peoples intention now a days. Which is sad.

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#27

“As for my girls, I’ll raise them to think they breathe fire.” – Jessica Kirkland

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

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“You don’t have to play masculine to be a strong woman.” – Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Thank you. No need to be "butch" to be a b!tch either ! I don't mean this in a nasty way. Just that some people think that women have to be so called manly to be strong. And in my experience women are stronger than men because we have been dealing with oppression for decades and have learned to get on with life.

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40 Powerful Women Quotes That Might Just Inspire You “I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.” — Audrey Hepburn

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

She would have known. She volunteered to a field hospital in middle of battle as a teenager. After she starved to the end of war and suffered from eating disorder for the rest of her life. She had several miscarriages before her children were born. She was an UNICEF ambassador and she was the happiest with children, any children anywhere in the world.

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“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.” – Kavita Ramdas

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So, fit in the tiny box that has been assigned to us for most of human history? Noooo thank you. Discipline is being free? That's some straight-up deep religion crap right there. 'Strong women are submissive' vibes off of it. Screw that.

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“Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.” – Shirley Chisholm

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Every single human being ever was given to the world by a strong woman. Every. Single. One. Women are the stronger sex, no question about it. If all of them could use her strength to its full potential this world would be a very different place.

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#33

“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” – Marie Curie

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#34

“We need to get women to the point where they aren’t apologizing. It’s time to take ownership in our success.” — Tori Burch

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I’m stunned at how many women apologize for anything and everything. It drives me nuts. I want to respond to that woman standing in an aisle at the store basically apologizing to everyone walking by. Please, don’t be sorry, you have nothing to be sorry for here, you are okay, it’s okay, you have a right to be here, doing this, you have no need to apologize, please, it becomes meaningless to say you are sorry to everyone for everything. Somewhere you have picked up a burden, just like a giant wooden cross, you are bearing it because of that one person who last said something demeaning about you or told you that you were somehow only worthy when you are bearing this burden. It’s not a beautiful attribute, it’s shockingly maddening and you deserve better, you deserve to be free of that burden of thinking you are a burden to someone just by taking up space, just by being.

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Indira Gandhi quote on shaking your hands “You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” – Indira Gandhi

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“If you don’t see a clear path for what you want, sometimes you have to make it yourself.” — Mindy Kaling

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Maybe the path you're clearing does not lead to what is right for you, but the cleared path may be right for someone else!

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“Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.” —Dr. Harriet Braiker

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Perfectionism bleeds all the joy out of life. If a person is unable to love or enjoy anything imperfect, and they're stuck in an imperfect world, the perfectionism dooms them to a frustrating and joyless existence. At least I'm spared that, in the medical field there's no perfection, and I tell people "I can't get good, I'll take better".

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#38

“Aging is not “lost youth” but a new stage of opportunity and strength.” – Betty Friedan

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Ageing is exactly lost youth. I just don't give a microshit because youth is overrated

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#39

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” – Mary Oliver

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JM Storm quote on strong woman “She’s a strong cup of black coffee in a world that is drunk on the cheap wine of shallow love.” – JM Storm

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