Women Empowerment Quotes—Empowering Female Quotes (2022)

“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. “ — Ruth Bader Ginsberg

 “Girl, won't you stop your cryin’? I know that you're tryin’. Everything’s gonna be okay. Baby girl, don't you hang your head low. Don't you lose your halo. Everyone's gonna be okay.” — “GIRL” by Maren Morris

“Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” — Jennifer Lopez

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” — Mary Anne Radmacher

“You are the one that possesses the key to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” — Diana von Furstenberg

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

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

“Women don’t need to find a voice, they have a voice, and they need to feel empowered to use it, and people need to be encouraged to listen.” — Meghan Markle

“[Unlikeable women] accept the consequences of their choices and those consequences become stories worth reading.” — Roxane Gay

“You deserve to be here. You deserve to exist. You deserve to take up space in this world of men.” — McKenzie Lee

“Every woman’s success should be an inspiration to another. We’re strongest when we cheer each other on.” — Serena Williams

“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” — Amelia Earhart

“Hey girl, hey girl, we can make it easy if we lift each other. Hey girl, hey girl, we don't need to keep on one-in' up another.” — “Hey Girl” by Lady Gaga ft. Florence Welsh

“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” — Shonda Rhimes

“The best way to live is to give, to worry less, and when we do what we love, we can do more than we ever imagined.” — Gayle King from her book Note to Self

“She's just a girl and she's on fire. Hotter than a fantasy, lonely like a highway. She's living in a world and it's on fire. Filled with catastrophe, but she knows she can fly away.” — “Girl On Fire” by Alicia Keys

“If you’re one of those people who has that little voice in the back of her mind saying, ‘Maybe I could do [fill in the blank],’ don’t tell it to be quiet. Give it a little room to grow, and try to find an environment to grow in.” — Reese Witherspoon

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

“Not all who wander are aimless, especially those who seek truth beyond tradition, beyond definition, beyond the image.” — Betty Warren in Mona Lisa Smile

“Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and black and other minority men.” — Gloria Steinem

“In a way, women are a psychic immigrant group.” — Gloria Steinem

 “The deepest change begins with men raising children as much as women do and women being equal actors in the world outside the home. There are many ways of supporting that, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all caregiving and making that amount tax-deductible.” — Gloria Steinem

“Rich cultures, patriarchal cultures, value thin women, like ours; poor ones value fat women. But all patriarchal cultures value weak women. So for women to become physically strong is very profound.” — Gloria Steinem

“’Ms.’ always flouted the rules of the ad world that say, especially for products directed at women, that the ad must be connected to the editorial. You don’t have food ads unless you have recipes. You don’t get clothing ads unless you have lavish fashion coverage. We never did that; every other women’s magazine does.” — Gloria Steinem

. “I’m not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by a power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression.” — Gloria Steinem

 “I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives.” — Gloria Steinem

“While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.” — Marianne Williamson

 “I think if we get freedom for women, then they are probably going to do a lot of things that I wish they wouldn’t do. But it seems to me that isn’t our business to say what they should do with it. It is our business to see that they get it.” — Alice Paul

“Women are focused on getting things done and bring fresh perspectives and innovative approaches to a political system that’s crying out for change.” — Amy Klobuchar

 “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” ~ Maya Angelou

“Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” ~ Ruth Gordo

“We can do no great things, only small things with great love.” ~ Mother Teresa

“Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.” ~ Byron Katie

“I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.” ~ Coco Chanel

 Whatever it is that you think you want to do, and whatever it is that you think stands between you and that, stop making excuses. You can do anything. ~ Katia Beauchamp (co-founder of Birchbox)

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. ~ Coco Chanel (fashion designer)

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the troublemaking individual. ~ Natalie Clifford Barney (playwright and poet)

Making the decision to not follow a system, or someone else’s rules has allowed me to really dig into what my own strengths and gifts are without spending time feeling jaded or wasteful. ~ Ishita Gupta (founder of Fearless Magazine)

There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for if I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard. ~ Madam C.J. Walker (USA’s first female millionaire entrepreneur)