“We need to recover from our shock and depression, and do what women have always done in this country: we need to roll up our sleeves and get to work. Because remember this: when they go low, we go high.”— Michelle Obama, twitter.comTagged: Election 2016, Donald J. Trump, 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, fandomsandfeminism.tumblr.comTagged: feminism, Strong Women, Female Empowerment
“And when crisis hits, we don’t turn against each other. No, we listen to each other, we lean on each other, because we are always stronger together.”— Michelle Obama, time.comTagged: 2016 Election, 2016 DNC Convention, michelle obama
“When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”— Malala Yousafzai, amazon.comTagged: strength, Women, feminism
“I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into st…”— Tana French, amazon.comTagged: Strong Women, Women, Independence, strength
“It is absolutely still possible to make a difference. The great moments of our history are not decades in our past; they're happening right now, today, in our lifetimes.”— Michelle Obama, etonline.comTagged: life advice, Motivational Advice
“The magazines telling me strong is the new sexy and smart is the new beautiful, as though strong and smart are just paths to hot. The Facebook memes: Muscles are beautiful. No, wait: Fat is beautiful. No, wait: Thin is beautiful, too, as long as you don’t work for it. No, wait: All women are beautif…”— Kristi Coulter, vox.comTagged: Sexism, Media, beauty, feminism, Body Positive
“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”— Malala Yousafzai, amazon.comTagged: feminism, strength, Women, Speaking Up
“You become a woman the first time you stand up for yourself when they get your order wrong at a diner, or when you first realize your parents are full of shit. You become a woman the first time you get fitted for a bra and realize you’ve been wearing a very wrong size your whole fucking life. You be…”— Amy Schumer, amazon.comTagged: feminism, Growing Up
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely.”— Simone de Beauvoir, pinterest.comTagged: Strong Women, feminism, Strong Woman
“We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.”— Maya Angelou, amazon.comTagged: Encounter, Defeats
“Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.”— Margaret Sanger, bartleby.comTagged: Women, Being a woman, feminism, Strong Women
“It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”— Warsan Shire, twitter.comTagged: feminism, Being A Female, Female Empowerment
“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”— Simone de Beauvoir, philosophynow.orgTagged: Becoming A Woman, Being a woman, feminism
“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.”— Roseanne Barr, books.google.comTagged: feminism, Being A Female, 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.comTagged: Strong Women, Female Empowerment, feminism, Being a woman, Strong Woman
“I really am not interested in whether men are made uncomfortable by feminism because I am made uncomfortable by men every day of my life.”— Anonymous, ohblimeyy.tumblr.comTagged: feminism, Gender Wars, Equality, Girl Power, Sexual Harassment
“It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly, and authoritatively demand it.”— Meryl Streep, vimeo.comTagged: feminism, Dreams, Feminist, Getting What You Want
“I love men. But I’m still a feminist. Because the two things aren’t mutually exclusive. Just like I’d love my daughter and son the same amount. I want them to have the same opportunities. I want them to be respected for who they are, not their gender.”— Ari Eastman, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Ari Eastman, Feminist
“She will be strong enough to demand equal treatment from you, and strong and self-confident enough to return it back to you.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: The Right Kind Of Woman, Women, Strong Women, Love & Relationships, Keeper
“How we explain that when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level. No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high.”— Michelle Obama, time.comTagged: 2016 Election, 2016 DNC Convention, michelle obama
“You can be the lead in your own life.”— Kerry Washington, glamour.comTagged: Women, Inspiring, Empowering, feminism
“I kind of hate the phrase ‘having it all,’ but I think you can have … You can have a lot. Not everything. But a lot. And so part of being able to do that is making the choices upfront about which of the pieces of the pie are the most important to you right now. There are other times in my life when…”— Kathryn Minshew, nymag.comTagged: Career, Women, Being a woman, Having It All
“You can never leave footprints that last if you are always walking on tiptoe.”— Leymah Gbowee, quotespictures.netTagged: strength, Tiptoe, Footprints, Change, feminism
“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 learning.”— Amy Poehler, glamour.comTagged: Bossy, Women, strength, feminism
“In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.”— Margaret Thatcher, quoteinvestigator.comTagged: Politics, Women, feminism, strength
“We're constantly getting these messages to mind our own business and look the other way if we want to be well liked, to not tell the truth or speak our mind or say anything too intense. Well, I'm telling you here that this approach not only makes you party to other people's crimes against themselves…”— Kelly Cutrone, amazon.comTagged: Career, Truth, feminism, Women
“You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can’t.”— Annie Leibovitz, fastcocreate.comTagged: Trust, empowerment, Women, feminism, strength
“I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”— Madonna, books.google.comTagged: Bitch, Women, strength, feminism, Determination