International Women's Day is a celebration of the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women around the world. It is a day to honor and uplift the incredible women in our lives and to reflect on the ongoing journey towards gender equality. This collection of quotes is crafted to inspire, empower and acknowledge the unique strength, resilience, and contributions of women in every sphere of life. From family to workplaces, each quote carries a message of appreciation and respect, aiming to reflect the diverse and beautiful experiences of women everywhere.
Empowering Women Quotes
"Empowered women inspire change." - Unknown
"She believed she could, so she did." - R.S. Grey
"There's nothing more unstoppable than a woman with a clear vision chasing her dream." - Unknown
"Women hold up half the sky." - Mao Zedong
"The future is female." - Unknown
"A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for others." - Unknown
"Behind every successful woman is a tribe of other successful women who have her back." - Unknown
"Empowered women empower women." - Unknown
"The best protection any woman can have is courage." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"Femininity is not a weakness. It’s a superpower." - Unknown
"The strongest action for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could." - Unknown
"Well-behaved women seldom make history." - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Inspirational Women Quotes
"The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me." - Ayn Rand
"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
"The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others." - Unknown
"Women are the real architects of society." - Harriet Beecher Stowe
"The most beautiful thing a woman can wear is confidence." - Blake Lively
"You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are." - Melissa Etheridge
"A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman." - Melinda Gates
"When women support each other, incredible things happen." - Unknown
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Be the heroine of your life, not the victim." - Nora Ephron
"Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use." - Ruth Gordon
"She remembered who she was and the game changed." - Lalah Delia
Strong Women Quotes
"You don’t have to play masculine to be a strong woman." - Mary Elizabeth Winstead
"A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink." - Gina Carey
"The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could." - Unknown
"Strong women don’t have attitudes. They have standards." - Unknown
"I’m tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay." - Madonna
"A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman, but the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult." - Melinda Gates
"Sometimes it takes balls to be a woman." - Unknown
"You can tell who the strong women are. They are the ones building one another up rather than tearing each other down." - Unknown
"She was powerful not because she wasn’t scared but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear." - Atticus
"A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done." - Marge Piercy
"I am woman, hear me roar." - Helen Reddy
"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
Courageous Women Quotes
"To all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams." - Hillary Clinton
"A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform." - Diane Mariechild
"I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard." - Malala Yousafzai
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage." - Anais Nin
"I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear." - Rosa Parks
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman." - Melinda Gates
"We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced." - Malala Yousafzai
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good women to do nothing." - (Adaptation)
"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman." - Margaret Thatcher
"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
"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott
Inspirational Women Leaders Quotes
"Exchange ideas, empower globally. That's the heart of every woman leader." - Unknown
"Great leaders don’t set out to be leaders. They set out to make a difference." - Jeremy Bravo
"Do not wait on a leader…look in the mirror, it’s you!" - Katherine Miracle
"The world was hers for the reading." - Betty Smith
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." - Katharine Hepburn
"As women, we must stand up for ourselves." - Madonna
"The best kind of leader: One who creates more leaders." - Unknown
"Leadership is not a position or title, it is action and example." - Cory Booker
"The most effective way to do it, is to do it." - Amelia Earhart
"Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world." - Melinda Gates
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." - J.K. Rowling
"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." - Angela Davis
Resilient Women Quotes
"Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and the responsibility to pick yourself up." - Mary Holloway
"I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it." - Maya Angelou
"There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child." - N.K. Jemisin
"A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars." - Carly Simon
"Women are like tea bags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water!" - Eleanor Roosevelt
"And though she be but little, she is fierce." - William Shakespeare
"A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"I am resilient. I am strong. I am woman." - Unknown
"No one can dim the light that shines from within." - Maya Angelou
"The strongest women are those who trust their intuition first, second, and third." - Unknown
"She wore her scars as her best attire. A stunning dress made of hellfire." - Daniel Saint
"The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us but those who win battles we know nothing about." - Unknown
Women in History Quotes
"The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves." - Louise Otto
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any." - Alice Walker
"Each time a woman stands up for herself, she stands up for all women." - Maya Angelou
"We can do no great things, only small things with great love." - Mother Teresa
"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
"The best protection any woman can have is courage." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got." - Janis Joplin
"I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves." - Mary Shelley
"In nature, nothing is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful." - Alice Walker
"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel
"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better." - Frida Kahlo
"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman." - Margaret Thatcher
Women in Love Quotes
"Love is not about how much you say 'I love you,' but how much you prove that it’s true." - Unknown
"To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow – this is a human offering that can border on miraculous." - Elizabeth Gilbert
"The power of love between women transcends the ages and defies the bonds of life." - Unknown
"All that you are is all that I’ll ever need." - Ed Sheeran
"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” - Aristotle
"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet." - Katharine Lee Bates
"Find someone who isn’t afraid to admit that they miss you, someone who knows you’re not perfect but treats you as if you are." - Unknown
"I have found the one whom my soul loves." - Song of Solomon 3:4
"Love is a meeting of two souls, fully accepting the dark and the light within each other.” - Unknown
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
"Love liberates. It doesn’t just hold—that’s ego." - Maya Angelou
Women in Art Quotes
"There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen." - Brené Brown
"Creativity takes courage." - Henri Matisse
"Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it." - Bertolt Brecht
"Every artist was first an amateur." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom." - John F. Kennedy
"The purpose of art is not a rarified, intellectual distillate—it is life, intensified, brilliant life." - Alain Arias-Misson
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." - Aristotle
"Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso
"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude." - Nietzsche
"The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist." - Eric Gill
"The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things." - Henry Ward Beecher
"An artist is not paid for their labor but for their vision." - James Whistler
Women and Family Quotes
"Family is not an important thing. It's everything." - Michael J. Fox
"The family is one of nature’s masterpieces." - George Santayana
"The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing." - Unknown
"In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful." - Unknown
"Family gives you the roots to stand tall and strong." - Unknown
"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there." - Barbara Bush
"A happy family is but an earlier heaven." - George Bernard Shaw
"The strength of a woman can carry her family through the darkest of days." - Unknown
"Family is the heart to our culture, and the center of our joy." - Unknown
"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family." - Mother Teresa
"Family is what grounds and uplifts us. It’s where the bonds of love are unbroken." - Unknown
Final words
Women's Day serves as a potent reminder of the power and potential embodied in every woman across the globe. These carefully curated quotes reflect the spirit of empowerment, inspiration, and celebration inherent in the fabric of womanhood. As we navigate through life, these words can serve as a beacon of resilience, courage, leadership, and love, driving positive change not only in the lives of women but also influencing the broader tapestry of humanity. Let these quotations be a catalyst to inspire and ignite the hearts and minds of everyone to continue the march towards equality, recognition, and respect. Cherish and acknowledge the individuals who contribute to this legacy of strength and wisdom, and may this collection remind us all of the beauty and indomitable spirit that is intrinsic to every woman. Here's to strong women: may we know them, may we be them, and may we raise them. Happy International Women’s Day!
