15 Empowering Feminist Quotes For When You're Feeling Tiny And Insignificant

15 quotes

Read this when you need a reminder of how strong, independent, beautiful, and bad ass you really are.

“The most notable fact our culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits.”

Tagged: Female Empowerment, Female Strength, Being a woman, feminism, Life

“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, fandomsandfeminism.tumblr.com

Tagged: feminism, Strong Women, Female Empowerment

“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, facebook.com

Tagged: Strong Women, Female Empowerment, feminism, Being a woman, Strong Woman

“I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.”

— June Jordan, amazon.com

Tagged: feminism, Female Perspective, Being a woman, Being An African American Woman, African American Women

“Life on the planet is born of woman.”

— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com

Tagged: Female Empowerment, Female Strength, Being a woman, feminism, Life

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

— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com

Tagged: feminism, Female Empowerment, Female Strength, Being a woman

“We call ships ‘she’. We call our machines 'women’. We compare women to black widows and vipers. And you’re going to tell me it’s not 'lady-like’ to scream, to take up space, to fight and demand respect and do whatever I want. You’ve looked at nuclear bombs and been so in awe that you could only name…”

— Anonymous, naamahdarling.tumblr.com

Tagged: feminism, Womanhood, Power, strength

“The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.”

— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com

Tagged: feminism, Female Empowerment, Female Connection, Feminist, Being a woman

“You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou, amazon.com

Tagged: feminism, strength, Self love, Poetry, Spilled Ink

“Here is how you walk away from him: you get up, flick your hair, sashay away and never look back.”

— Kat George, thoughtcatalog.com

Tagged: Moving On, Breaking Up, Exes, Leaving, Goodbyes

“I am an instrument in the shape of a woman trying to translate pulsations into images for the relief of the body and the reconstruction of the mind.”

— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com

Tagged: Being a woman, Women, feminism, Female Strength, Female Perspective

“Womanhood is learning how to witch yourself in slow motion. When they say your name like a curse, say it back to them like an incantation. When they call you cold, show them how you conjure fire.”

— Brenna Twohy, brennatwohy.tumblr.com

Tagged: feminism, Feminist, Women, Girls, Living

“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”

— Madonna, people.com

Tagged: feminism, Bitch, Loving Yourself, Self-Love, Women

“I never used to be bothered by how small I was. Then something happened… and I was. Then I fell in love with myself again, and I wasn’t bothered anymore. I never will be again.”

— Quinta Brunson, thequintab.tumblr.com

Tagged: feminism, Self-Love, Loving Yourself, Self-Image, Independence