Empowerment Quotes

"The worst thing that we can do as women is not stand up for each other, and this is something we can practice every day, no matter where we are and what we may believe, it is both possible and, more importantly, it becomes powerful to come together in common purpose and common effort."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you."

- Viola Davis

"Why be a star when you can make a constellation?"

- Octavia Butler

"I can promise you that women working together—linked, informed, and educated—can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet."

- Isabel Allende

"Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong; it's about changing the way the world perceives that strength."

- G.D. Anderson

"Women have discovered that they cannot rely on men’s chivalry to give them justice."

- Helen Keller

"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"If fighting for women’s health care and paid family leave and equal pay is playing the women’s card, then deal me in."

- Hillary Clinton

"What I want young women and girls to know is: You are powerful and your voice matters. You’re going to walk into many rooms where you may be the only one who looks like you or who has had the experiences you’ve had. So you use that voice and be strong."

- Kamala Harris

"To tell a woman everything she cannot do is to tell her what she can."

- Spanish Proverb

"If your circle doesn’t challenge you to grow beyond your comfort zone, then you are definitely in the wrong circle."

- Edmond Mbiaka

"Women’s friendships are like a renewable source of power."

- Jane Fonda

"I don’t know what I would have done so many times in my life if I hadn’t had my girlfriends. They have literally gotten me up out of bed, taken my clothes off, put me in the shower, dressed me, said, ‘Hey, you can do this,’ put my high heels on and pushed me out the door!"

- Reese Witherspoon

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."

- Jim Valvano

"I believe that business is the greatest platform for change."

- Blake Mycoskie

"I believe that every child deserves the opportunity to succeed, regardless of their background."

- Mark Zuckerberg

""With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.""

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Every patient carries her or his own doctor inside."

- Albert Schweitzer

"I feel like the Moon is a very beautiful woman. She's in control."

- Ravyn Lenae

"If he's the darkness, then you're his Moon, and the Moon wasn't made to be caged."

- Hafsah Faizal

"Stay wild, Moon child."

- Riitta Klint

"The moon is a beautiful woman. She's in control."

- Ravyn Lenae

"I feel like the moon is a very beautiful woman. She’s in control."

- Ravyn Lenae

"Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you."

- Taylor Swift

"I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world."

- Meryl Streep

"How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Well, I don’t know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do."

- J. P. Morgan

"Here’s to strong women. May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them."

"You are the artist of your own life. Don’t hand the paintbrush to anyone else."

"The magic is in you"