Empowering Women Quotes - Page 5

• Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

  Maya Angelou

  Moving On, Spiritual, Strong Women

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 01, 2009

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• 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

  Running, Country, Strong Women

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• Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

  Marie Curie

  Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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• We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Children, Fear

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• I've never met a woman who is not strong, but sometimes they don't let it out. Then there's a tragedy, and then all of a sudden that strength comes. My message is let the strength come out before the tragedy.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Motivational, Strong Women, Empowering

  "How Diane von Furstenberg Is Like a Cowboy". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. June 28, 2013.

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• 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.

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• The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Inspiring, Strong Women, Sex

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  Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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• 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

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• I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

  Rebecca West

  Girly, Time, Peace

  The Clarion, 14 Nov. 1913

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• ...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

  Kofi Annan

  Inspiring, Women, Empowering

  Twitter post from May 11, 2016

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• The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong Women, Memorable, Feminist Art

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now, get out there and kick ass!

  Stella McCartney

  Inspirational, Women, Empowering

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• You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.

  Marsha Johnson Evans

  Success, Strong Women, Fall

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

  Susan B. Anthony

  Witty, Strong Women, Independent

  Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868

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

  Susan B. Anthony

  Strong Women, Inspiration, People

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• One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Motivational, Strong Women, Philosophy

  The Second Sex vol. 2, pt. 1, ch. 1 (1949) (translation by H. M. Parshley)

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• Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'

  Diana Vreeland

  Space, Empowering, Women Empowerment

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• Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you.  Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?

  Caroline Myss

  Choices, Empowering, Scare

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• And who knows? Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well!

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Women, White

  Barbara Bush's Commencement Address at the Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, www.wellesley.edu. June 1, 1990.

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• You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Behinds, Nations

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• You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

  Mae West

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Mae West: 'YOLO,' Before YOLO Was a Thing", bigthink.com. September 25, 2015.

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• You are more powerful than you think.

  Tim Cook

  Uplifting, Strong Women, Powerful

  Twitter post from Apr 23, 2014

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