Empowering Quotes for Girls: A Collection of Inspiration

"Whatever the problem, be part of the solution."

- Tina Fey

"They'll tell you you're too loud and you need to wait your turn and ask the right people for permission. Do it anyway."

- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

"I was made exactly the way I was meant to be made in who I am."

- Megan Rapinoe

"If you are always trying to be normal, you'll never know how amazing you can be."

- Maya Angelou

"Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy."

- Nicole Scherzinger

"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."

- Madonna

"She's not a girl, she's a legend."

- Sophia Amoruso

"Be happy with being you. Love your flaws. Own your quirks."

- Ariana Grande

"I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world."

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Michelle Obama

"Make more than the guys you thought you wanted to be with."

- Cardi B

"Who run the world? Girls."

- Beyoncé

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

- Coco Chanel

"I've always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am."

- Billie Eilish

"A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars."

- Carly Simon

"Half woman, half warrior. Delicate and strong."

- R.H. Sin

"I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a b*tch, ok."

- Madonna

"My beauty is not about how I look. My beauty is about my heart and soul."

- Laverne Cox

"I like that I'm not typical."

- Lizzo

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

- Estée Lauder

"Always the most important rule of beauty, which is: Who cares?"

- Tina Fey

"People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together."

- Michelle Obama

"A strong woman looks challenge in the eye and gives it a wink."

- Gina Carey

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It's not your job to be likeable. It's your job to be yourself. Someone will like you anyway."

- Chimamanda Adichie

"You don't have to be anyone but yourself to be worthy."

- Tarana Burke

"Girls should never be afraid to be smart."

- Emma Watson

"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, that is not difficult."

- Charlotte Whitton

"It's never overreacting to ask for what you want and need."

- Amy Poehler

"As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am."

- Beyoncé

"I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it."

- Marilyn Monroe

"It is amazing what a woman can do if she only ignores what men tell her she can't."

- Carol K. Carr

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

- Ayn Rand

"If one man can destroy everything, why can't one girl change it?"

- Malala Yousafzai

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody."

- Maya Angelou

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass."

- Maya Angelou

"Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women."

- Maya Angelou

"What I want young women and girls to know is: You are powerful and your voice matters."

- Kamala Harris

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

- Lucille Ball

"You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it’s right."

- Rosa Parks

"It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent."

- Madeleine Albright

"Am I good enough? Yes, I am."

- Michelle Obama

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman."

- Melinda French Gates

"The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold."

- Michelle Obama

"When I dare to be powerful — to use my strength in the service of my vision — then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

- Audre Lorde

"You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are."

- Melissa Etheridge

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

- Alice Walker

"I am a woman with thoughts and questions and sh*t to say. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story – I will."

- Amy Schumer

"Don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own."

- Michelle Obama

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."

- Margaret Thatcher

"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

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Judy Garland

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

- Sheryl Sandberg

"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

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

- Beyoncé

"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 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

"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

"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.’"

- Maya Angelou

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Lucille Ball

"Women have always been the strong ones of the world."

- Coco Chanel

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

- Swati Sharma

"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

"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

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

- Blake Lively

"The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be, so you can create a better world."

- Ashley Rickards

"You have what it takes to be a victorious, independent, fearless woman."

- Tyra Banks

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, 'I’m possible!'"

- Audrey Hepburn

"I used to walk down the street like I was a superstar… I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be — and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth."

- Lady Gaga

"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough."

- Marissa Mayer

"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

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"A woman is like a tea bag — you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

- Maya Angelou

"We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

- Coco Chanel

"The best protection any woman can have … is courage."

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist."

- Ginni Rometty

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."

- Anaïs Nin

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I’m possible!'"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Oprah Winfrey

"Don’t follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get."

- W. P. Kinsella

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half their inferior. Luckily, this is not difficult."

- Charlotte Whitton

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

- Helen Keller

"Well-behaved women seldom make history."

- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through."

- Rosalynn Carter

"And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk more."

- Erica Jong

"You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the water-slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."

- Tina Fey

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."

- Amelia Earhart

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

- Mae West

"Expect the unexpected, and whenever possible, be the unexpected."

- Lynda Barry

"Always concentrate on how far you have come, rather than how far you have left to go. The difference in how easy it seems will amaze you."

- Heidi Johnson

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman."

- Nancy Astor

"A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon."

- Arnold Haultain

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

- Margaret Mead

"I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?"

- Amy Poehler

"I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine."

- Mel Gibson

"I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships."

- Gilda Radner

"If you don’t like being a doormat then get off the floor."

- Al Anon

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

- Serena Williams

"I'm every woman. It's all in me. Anything you want done, baby, I do it naturally. I'm every woman. It's all in me. I can read your thoughts right now, every one from A to Z."

"Believe in yourself and you can do unbelievable things."

"Diva is a female version of a hustler."

"When all is said and done, you'll believe God is a woman."

"Ladies all across the world, listen up. We're looking for recruits. If you with me, let me see your hands. Stand up and salute. Get your killer heels, sneakers pumps, or lace up your boots. Representing all the women, salute."

"Throw your hands up if you know that you're a star. You better stand up if you know just who you are. Never give up, never say 'die.' Girl power, girl power."

"Who says, who says you're not perfect? Who says you're not worth it? Who says you're the only one that's hurting? Trust me, that's the price of beauty. Who says you're not pretty? Who says you're not beautiful? Who says?"

"I woke up like this. We flawless, ladies, tell 'em. Say, 'I look so good tonight.'"

"If you're a strong female, you don't need permission."

"I'm so sick of running as fast as I can, wondering if I'd get there quicker if I was a man. And I'm so sick of them coming at me again 'cause if I was a man, then I'd be the man."

"When someone tells you that you can’t, turn around and say ‘watch me.’"

"Princess or queen, tomboy or king. You've heard a lot, you've never seen. Mother Earth, Mother Mary rise to the top. Divine feminine, I'm feminine."

"Are these quotes by notable women inspiring you to take a step on your own path toward leadership in your community or workplace?"