Empowering Words: A Curated Collection of Inspirational International Women's Day Quotes

"There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish."

- Michelle Obama

"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

"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

"The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you’re very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble."

- Serena Williams

"Today, we are celebrating the strength, determination, and resilience of women everywhere."

- Michelle Obama

"We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens."

- Michelle Obama

"I want every girl to know that her voice can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it."

- Michelle Obama

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

- G.D. Anderson

"Don’t think about making women fit the world - think about making the world fit women."

- Gloria Steinem

"Don’t think about making women fit the world — think about making the world fit women."

- Gloria Steinem

"Every woman's success should be an inspiration to another. We're strongest when we cheer each other on."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world."

- Hillary Clinton

"Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you."

- Misty Copeland

"Never ever mistake her silence for weakness. Remember that sometimes the air stills before the onset of a hurricane."

- Nikita Gill

"She has a voice. If you can’t hear it, it’s because you’re too busy talking."

- Helen Keller

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"A charming woman doesn’t follow the crowd; she is herself."

- Loretta Young

"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within."

- Maya Angelou

"Women are the real architects of society."

- Cher

"You can carve your own path. Be your own kind of leader."

- Jacinda Ardern

"At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can."

- Frida Kahlo

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier."

- Mother Teresa

"Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth, and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future."

- Queen Elizabeth II

"If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is."

- Angelina Jolie

"Be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."

- Judy Garland

"You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances."

- Condoleezza Rice

"I don’t get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet."

- Emma Raducanu

"I don't really think about other people's opinions or expectations. The only ones I have are that of myself, to improve and get better."

- Greta Thunberg

"I have learned you are never too small to make a difference."

- Misty Copeland

"The most beautiful thing a woman can wear is confidence."

- Blake Lively

"I am a feminist. I’ve been a female for a long time now. It’d be stupid not to be on my own side."

- Maya Angelou

"A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I can encourage the women who are striving to get their footing in the world to keep pushing and to express themselves."

- Angela Yee

"I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do."

- Georgia O'Keeffe

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."

- Alice Walker

"I encourage women to step up. Don’t wait for somebody to ask you."

- Reese Witherspoon

"…this International Women’s Day, allow me to share what I’ve learned. You don’t need to be ‘one of the guys.’ You are strong, brave, and destined to lead. Own it."

- Tammy Duckworth

"Women should be celebrated every day…It doesn’t just honor the iconic women who have changed history, but encourages new generations to dream big and know that anything is possible."

- Molly McCook

"Women make up more than half of the world’s population and potential, so it is neither just nor practical for their voices, for our voices, to go unheard at the highest levels of decision-making."

- Meghan Markle

"Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry."

- Susan B. Anthony

"You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights."

- Marsha P. Johnson

"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."

- Shirley Chisholm

"It’s okay if you fall down and lose your spark. Just make sure that when you get back up, you rise as the whole damn fire."

- Colette Werden

"The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

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

- Viola Davis

"A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and herself only."

- Maya Angelou

"If you don’t see a clear path for what you want, sometimes you have to make it yourself."

- Mindy Kaling

"The only one who can tell you 'you can't win' is you, and you don't have to listen."

- Margaret Fuller

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."

- Margaret Fuller

"Sometimes things fall apart, so that better things can fall together."

- George Eliot

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough."

- Oprah Winfrey

"There’s something so special about a woman who dominates in a man’s world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness and the nerve to never take no for an answer."

- Rihanna

"I think realizing that you’re not alone, that you are standing with millions of your sisters around the world is vital."

- Malala Yousafzai

"A girl should be two things: Who and what she wants."

- Dolly Parton

"If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader."

- Dolly Parton

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

- Judy Garland

"Every person has a responsibility to be a participant in this society and make it a better place for everybody, in whatever capacity they can."

- Megan Rapinoe

"I encourage women to step up. Don't wait for somebody to ask you."

- Reese Witherspoon

"Where there is a woman, there is magic."

- Ntozake Shange

"Friends. Sisters. Mothers. Professors. When women affirm women, it unlocks our power. It gives us permission to shine brighter."

- Elaine Welteroth

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

- Beyoncé

"If everything was perfect, you would never learn, and you would never grow."

- Beyoncé

"I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own."

- Audre Lorde

"What’s the greatest lesson a woman should learn? That since day one, she’s already had everything she needs within herself. It’s the world that convinced her she did not."

- Rupi Kaur

"Believe in yourself and be proud of who you are. Don't let anyone tell you differently. There is beauty in everyone and no one should stop you from growing into a confident and strong young person."

- Isabel Allende

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

- Isabel Allende

"I am thankful for my struggle because, without it, I wouldn’t have stumbled across my strength."

- Alex Elle

"Life is tough, my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

"I will always be the girl who believed she could make it to the moon, in a world that still debates whether girls should have an education and whether women should have reproductive rights."

- G.D. Anderson

"Do not ever sell yourself short."

- Jameela Jamil

"After all those years as a woman hearing, ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not thin enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I am enough.’"

- Anna Quindlen

"I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life."

- Jane Goodall

"One individual cannot possibly make a difference, alone. It is individual efforts, collectively, that makes a noticeable difference - all the difference in the world!"

- Jane Goodall

"I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done."

- Lucille Ball

"The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one-thousand generations back of them...Millions of women dead and gone are speaking through us today."

- Matilda Joslyn Gage

"Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me."

- Arianna Huffington

"Feminism is not just about women; it’s about letting all people lead fuller lives."

- Brené Brown

"Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be; embrace who you are."

- Emma Watson

"Girls should never be afraid to be smart."

- Emma Watson

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try."

- Beverly Sills

"I’ve never been interested in being invisible and erased."

- Lucille Ball

"Take the wisdoms of the women in this world and keep them at your side, always."

- Beanie Feldstein

"I am a woman and I get to define what that means."

- Swati Sharma

"Be free, be fierce, but most of all, have fun while being a feminist."

- Nimco Ali

"A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts."

- Nancy Rathburn

"Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from."

- Jodie Foster

"No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind."

- Taylor Swift

"I’m pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there."

- Aubrey Plaza

"I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce."

- Margaret Mead

"When the world tells you to shrink, expand."