Women quotes from the ladies of history

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When you need a refreshment or have doubts about your feminine power, check out the quotes of powerful women from pioneering women across ages and history, celebrities, actresses, musicians, and, of course, women writers.

Women quotes from the ladies of history

“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” – Malala Yousafzai

“Step out the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Teresa

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” – Simone de Beauvoir

“Everyone shines, given the right lighting.” – Susan Cain

“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your happiness.” – Diane von Furstenberg

“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rose Parks

Women quotes from the ladies of history:

“Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.” – Michelle Obama

“Rather, ten times, die in the surf, heralding the way to a new world, than stand idly on the shore.” – Florence Nightingale

“The destiny of the woman must be shaped to a large extent on the conception of her spiritual imperatives and her place in society.” – Sandra Day O’Connor

“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.” – Amelia Earhart

“When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.” – Michelle Obama

“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and a king of England too.” – Elizabeth I

“Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.” – Hilary Clinton

“If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires, there shall be no regrets.” – Bessie Coleman

“Rise, women! Wake up!” – Kanno Sugako

“Each person is born with very individual qualities and potential. We as a society owe it to women to create a truly supportive environment in which they too can grow and move forward.” – Princess Diana

“I can’t die but once.” – Harriet Tubman

“I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.” – Dolores Huerta

“The power I exert on the court depends on the power of my arguments, not on my gender.” – Sandra Day O’Connor

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” – Marie Curie

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank

“Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.” – Benazir Bhutto

“Strength relies on smarts, judgment, cool resolve, and the precise and strategic application of power.” – Hilary Clinton

“All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.” – Cleopatra

“We know that our life of freedom is stronger than terror.” – Angela Merkel

“Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.” – Elizabeth I

“Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift – there is nothing small about it.” – Florence Nightingale

“I started noticing, more and more, how men will plagiarize and take credit for women’s work… I’ve noticed that it just happens a lot.” – Dolores Huerta

“I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough.” – Christine Lagarde

“I don’t go by the rule book; I lead from the heart, not the head.” – Princess Diana

“Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.” – Cleopatra

“The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.” – Ada Lovelace

“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Theresa

“I am not afraid… I was born to do this.” – Joan of Arc

“Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what others said. That I was OK the way I was. That it was all right to be strong.” – Wangari Maathai

“I learned that you can constantly improve and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right.” – Christine Lagarde

“Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” – Ruth Ginsburg

“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist.” – Queen Victoria

“Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.” – Hypatia