40 Powerful International Women’s Day Quotes

Women are the real architects of society.

There’s nothing a man can do, that I can’t do better and in heels.

I didn’t get anywhere in my life waiting on somebody’s permission.

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

Girls, come on. Leave the saving of the world to the men? I don’t think so.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

She wasn’t looking for a knight, she was looking for a sword.

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.

. . . I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading

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

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

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.

Sometimes the future changes quickly and completely and we’re left with only the choice of what to do next. We can choose to be afraid of it, to stand there trembling, not moving, assuming the worst that can happen or we can step forward into the unknown and assume it will be brilliant.

The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.

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

Women and girls can do whatever they want. There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish.

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

Where there is a woman there is magic.

Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for.

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