“Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn't need a man; be that girl who never backed down.”— Taylor Swift, goodreads.com
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”— Michel de Montaigne, amazon.com
“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“I could have loved him with everything I had but he wasn't prepared for the depth i provided ~ had I been a woman of weakness I would have stayed, but he lost the chance when he said I wasn't enough that day.”— Nikki Rowe, goodreads.com
“Empowered Women 101: If they made you an option you will always be an option vs. the person they really wanted. Don't ever settle for someone that makes you go through hell only to stay with you because they don't have the confidence to go get what they really want. Fear will always follow your rule…”— Shannon L. Alder, goodreads.com
“I’ve often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there’s a fight to be won. If a woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.”— Karen Hawkins, amazon.com
“She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible. She walked with the Universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of wings.”— Ariana Dancu, goodreads.com
“I believe in strong women. I believe in the woman who is able to stand up for herself. I believe in the woman who doesn't need to hide behind her husband's back. I believe that if you have problems, as a woman you deal with them, you don't play victim, you don't make yourself look pitiful, you don't…”— C. Joybell C., goodreads.com
“Everyone has inside of her a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be!”— Anne Frank, planetofsuccess.com
“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”— Margaret Thatcher, planetofsuccess.com
“Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming. Often, after hearing her speak at some function or working with her on a project, people will approach me and say something to the effect of, you know, I thin…”— Barack Obama, amazon.com
“I want to do is because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.”— Amelia Earhart, keepinspiring.me
“A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.”— Diane Mariechild, keepinspiring.me
“A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts.”— Nancy Rathburn, keepinspiring.me
“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.”— Kavita Ramdas, mtholyoke.edu
“She was her father’s daughter but she’d inherited her mother’s black anger. It burned through her sometimes like a chemical fire, brief and devastating and utterly unstoppable.”— Amber Sparks, rabbitinthemoon.tumblr.com
“Dear Friends, on the 9th of October 2012, the Taliban shot me on the left side of my forehead. They shot my friends too. They thought that the bullets would silence us. But they failed. And then, out of that silence came, thousands of voices. The terrorists thought that they would change our aims an…”— Malala Yousafzai, un.org