Empowered Women Quotes - Page 7

• I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 04, 2013

  113 Copy quote

  Show source

• How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

  Maya Angelou

  Strong Women, Veterans Day, Courage

  "Celebrating Our She-roes" by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.

  83 Copy quote

  Show source

• I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Girl

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

  60 Copy quote

  Show source

• Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

  Margaret Sanger

  Strong Women, Courage, Struggle

  Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.99, Cosimo, Inc.

  45 Copy quote

  Show source

• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

  Unknown

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Dec 25, 2011

  160 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

  Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  384 Copy quote
• 

  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 that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

  Marie Curie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse, November 30, 1936.

  805 Copy quote

  Show source

• We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Strong Women, Powerful, Empowering

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

  65 Copy quote

  Show source

• Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Book, Terrorism

  130 Copy quote

• I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.

  Angelina Jolie

  Motivational, Strong Women, Cancer

  "Angelina Jolie's mastectomy account raises awareness of gene testing" by Ed Pilkington and Haroon Siddique, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2013.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

  Janis Joplin

  Life, Positive, Encouraging

  112 Copy quote

• A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

  Coco Chanel

  Beauty, Girl, Strong Women

  "The Gospel According to Coco Chanel : Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman". Book by Karen Karbo, 2009.

  675 Copy quote

  Show source

• You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

  Indira Gandhi

  Inspirational, Freedom, Women

  "The Embattled Woman Who Relishes Crosswords, Children...and Running India". People Magazine, June 30, 1975.

  180 Copy quote

  Show source

• Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

  Rosalind Russell

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  65 Copy quote
• 

  Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

  Judy Garland

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Business Etiquette for the Nineties: Your Ticket to Career Success". Book by Lou Kennedy, 1992.

  157 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.130, Variocity

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong Women, Inspiration, People

  74 Copy quote

• By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.

  Winnie Byanyima

  Girl, Children, Growing Up

  26 Copy quote

• There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Justice, Growth, Democracy

  28 Copy quote

• Empowered women who reach tough or unconventional positions make CHOICES not sacrifices

  Kiran Bedi

  Sacrifice, Choices, Unconventional

  FaceBook post by Kiran Bedi from Jul 22, 2011

  65 Copy quote

  Show source

• We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.

  Joanna Garcia

  Strong Women, Careers, Healthy

  6 Copy quote

• My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Encouraging, Mother, Strong

  "Interview with Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director of UN Women". Interview, www.un.org. December 3, 2012.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do think in general, women have a value system. And it's that value system that I think is feminism. Not "men are bad, women are good, let's get women empowered" - it's let's get this value system, which is about the capacity to feel and empathize with life, and therefore to protect it.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Men, Thinking, Feminism

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's obviously a correlation between an economically empowered woman and the investments she makes. That leads to her social and moral conscience for bettering her community.

  Andrea Jung

  Community, Moral, Investment

  4 Copy quote

• I want every Filipino woman empowered with information regarding all options available to her regarding family planning.

  Lea Salonga

  Want, Information, Planning

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source