30 Quotes Celebrating Women
30 Quotes Celebrating Women:
International Women’s Day
D. S. Mitchell
March 8th is celebrated world wide as International Women’s Day. I thought it might be fun to just look at some famous quotes celebrating women.
1.) “Here’s to strong women: May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.” –Unknown
2.) “To tell a woman everything she cannot do is to tell her what she can.” –Spanish Proverb
3.) “Well-behaved women rarely make history.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
4.) “The best protection any woman can have is courage.” –Elizabeth Cady Stanton
5.) “Where there is a woman, there is magic.” –Ntozake Shange
6.) “You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.” –Unknown
7.) “Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.” –Hilary Clinton
8.) “Feminism is for everyone.”-Bell Hooks
9.) “There’s nothing a man can do that I can’t do better and in heels.” –Ginger Rogers
10.) “Above all, be the heroine of your life. Not the victim.” –Nora Ephron
11.) “Girls should never be afraid to be smart.” –Emma Watson
12.) “Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.” –Stephanie Bennett-Henry
13.) “A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink.” –Gina Carey
14.) “She wasn’t looking for a knight. She was looking for a sword.” –Atticus
15.) “A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everyone else.” –Unknown
16.) “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
17.) “You can always tell who the strong women are. They are the ones you see building one another up instead of tearing each other down.” –Unknown
18.) “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me.” –Ayn Rand
19.) “I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.” –Madonna
20.) “A woman is like a tea bag: You can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” –Eleanor Roosevelt
21.) “A woman should be like a single flower—not a whole bouquet.” –Anna Held
22.) “I know what I bring to the table… So trust me when I say I’m not afraid to eat alone.” –Unknown
23.) “Women are the real architects of society.” –Cher
24.) “When women wake, mountains move.” Chinese Proverb
25.) “She’s a strong cup of black coffee in a world that is drunk on the cheap wine of shallow love.” –Unknown
26.) “Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.” –Unknown
27.) “I expect woman will be the last thing civilized by man.” –George Meredith
28.) “Women are made to be loved, not understood.” –Oscar Wilde
29.) “The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
30.) “In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits” –Arnold Schwarzenegger
https://www.calamitypolitics.com/2017/03/29/quotes-on-courage/
