Women are powerful and strong, are you in search for quotes that express this strength? We have 48 women empowerment quotes, sayings and images to inspire.

POWERFUL & FAMOUS WOMEN EMPOWERMENT QUOTES & SAYINGS

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. ― Nora Ephron”

“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.” ― Jane Austen, Pride, and Prejudice

“A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.”– Eleanor Roosevelt

“A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.”– Diane Mariechild

“One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.” — Sheila Murray Bethel

“Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” — Ruth Gordo

“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

“Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity.” — Gandhi

“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” — Roseanne Barr

“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.” — Oprah Winfrey

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” – Marilyn Monroe

“Women are the real architects of society.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Women are leaders everywhere you look — from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women, and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.” — Nancy Pelosi

“The best protection any woman can have … is courage.”– Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.”– Margaret Thatcher

“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes.”– Clare Boothe Luce

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

“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”– Elizabeth Gilbert

“Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.”― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.”― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“Women are never so strong as after their defeat.”― Alexandre Dumas

“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” —Margaret Thatcher

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

“I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.” ―Malala Yousafzai

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

“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible, and when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.” —Amerlia Earhart

“I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say, ‘Yes, women can.'” —Dilma Rousseff

“I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.” —Angelina Jolie

“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 believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21st century.” —Hillary Clinton

“Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.” —Coco Chanel

“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

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