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Life Celebration Quotes

500 Quotes from Famous Women

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Crafted with the reader in mind, this collection is clearly divided by themes:

Self-control, Meditation, Peace

Inspiration /  Motivation
Character  /  Integrity

Love, Hate, Gratitude

Knowledge  /  Truth
Humor / Laughter

Art / Creativity

Responsibility

Relationships

Individuality

Wisdom

Strength

Courage

Success

Beauty

Power

Time

My words will either attract a strong mind or offend a weak one.
Anne Sexton


Feminism is for everybody.    
Bell Hooks


Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves.    
Betty Friedan


Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought of half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.
Charlotte Whitton

 

Women have to harness their power – it’s absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take the first ‘no'. And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.    
Cher


I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.    
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


Women have always been the strong ones of the world.
Coco Chanel


Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe you must become its soul.

Coretta Scott King

 

 

 

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.    
 


I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.
Dolly Parton

 

Friends. Sisters. Mothers. Professors. When women affirm women, it unlocks our power.    
Elaine Welteroth


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

 

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


Some leaders are born women.

Geraldine Ferraro


Dear Superwoman, let no one demean your intelligence. Let no one dribble you from your happiness. Let no one derail you from success. Be a smart, courageous, and determined woman.    
Gift Gugu Mona


You are not supposed to be happy all the time. Life hurts and it’s hard. Not because you’re doing it wrong, but because it hurts for everybody. Don’t avoid the pain. You need it.    
Glennon Doyle

 

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I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.    
 


If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn’t it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?    
Gloria Steinem

 

Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.    
Hanna Rosin


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

 


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.  
 


We need to understand that there is no formula for how women should lead their lives. That is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family.

Hillary Clinton
 

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.     
Jane Austen


I am a woman and a warrior. If you think I can’t be both, you’ve been lied to.    
Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar


Behind every great woman ... is another great woman.
Kate Hodges


Well-behaved women seldom make history. 
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich


You deserve to be here. You deserve to exist. You deserve to take up space in this world of men.
MacKenzi Lee


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

 


I raise up my voice - not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard… We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.
 


We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.    
Malala Yousafzai 

 

Share with a special person in your life:

​Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.    
Marianne Williamson

 

Marie Curie
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

 


One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

 


If you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.
Marilyn Monroe

 

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

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Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.    
Mary Wollstonecraft


Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.    
Marya Mannes


We know that when a woman speaks truth to power, there will be attempts to put her down… I’m not going to go anywhere.    
Maxine Waters

 

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


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


A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.
Melinda Gates


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


I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women.
Nora Ephron


I want all the girls without an exception to have that space for themselves where they have opportunities to be the women they wish to be.
Priyanka Chopra


After centuries of dormancy, young women can now look toward a future moulded by their own hands.    
Rita Levi-Montalcini

 


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


If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be selfdefining, her agency.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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I long to speak out about the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women. They have made of their lives an intense adventure.    
Ruth Benedict


There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields; girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences.    
Sally Ride


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.
Sandra Day O'Connor

 

 

When you help a woman fulfil her potential, magic happens.     

 

Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.

Sara Blakely
 

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect. You should expect it.

Sarah Dessen


Every woman’s success should be an inspiration to another. We’re strongest when we cheer each other on. Don’t just stand for the success of other women – insist on it.    
Serena Williams


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

 

 


Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.    
Shirley Chisholm


I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man.     
Sojourner Truth


I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on Earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
Susan B. Anthony


As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women’s mental health: employment improves it.    
Susan Faludi


Women have the right to say: this is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.    
Tillie Olsen


I don’t think a female running a house is a problem, a broken family. It’s perceived as one because of the notion that a head is a man.    
Toni Morrison


We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
Ursula K. Le Guin


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

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