Short motivational quotes for women's empowerment

 “What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.” — Malala Yousafzai

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 “Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting along with people or resisting people, you are ultimately destroying yourself.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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  “I hate women who say they can eat whatever they want because I don’t relate to that at all. It isn’t fair! I absolutely live for food.” — Drew Barrymore

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“I don’t hate women – they just sometimes make me mad.” — Eminem

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“On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don’t need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done.” — Molly Ivins

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“I like women, but you can’t always trust them. Some of them are big liars, like this one woman I met who had a dog. I asked her dog’s name and then I asked, ‘Does he bite?’ and she said, ‘No.’ And I said, ‘So how does he eat?’ Liar!” — Demetri Martin

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“Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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“When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man; when a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.” — Bette Davis

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“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” — Audre Lorde

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“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

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

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“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

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“Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong, it’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.” — G.D. Anderson

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“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” — Gloria Steinem

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“There’s something so special about a woman who dominates in a man’s world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer.” — Rihanna

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“There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” — Michelle Obama

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“When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man; when a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.” — Bette Davis

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 “You have nothing if you’re texting a guy in a relationship. We can text six women a minute. We can test it and push ‘reply all.’ I mean, since we’re lying, we might as well lie to everybody.” — Steve Harvey

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“I care very much about women and their progress. I didn’t go march in the streets, but when I was in the Arizona Legislature, one of the things that I did was to examine every single statute in the state of Arizona to pick out the ones that discriminated against women and get them changed.” — Sandra Day O’Connor

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“The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.” — Jean Piaget

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 “Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don’t really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago.” — Jon Bon Jovi

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 “There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.” — P. J. O’Rourke

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“I began to meet young men and women who talked about having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, and while I cherish my Catholic upbringing and the foundation that it poured in my faith, that had not been a part of my experience.” — Mike Pence

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“One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.” — Nick Saban

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“The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.” — Ellen Key

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“I think my work shows that I love women. I understand where these types of criticisms are coming from because black people have been so dogged out in the media, they’re just extra sensitive.” — Spike Lee

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“People say I’m wearing heels because I’m short. I wear heels because the women like ’em.” — Prince

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 “The reason women don’t play football is that 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.” — Phyllis Diller

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“In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.” — Billie Jean King

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“I love seeing women do what they do.” — Megan Thee Stallion

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“Women have to harness their power – it’s absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take the first no. And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.” — Cher

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“The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God’s identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it’s the truth.” — Anne Lamott

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 “I’m so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer.” — bell hooks

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“I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.” — Lady Gaga

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“Antiabortion rules disproportionately harm women of color and low-income women of every ethnicity, affecting their economic capacity and threatening their very lives.” — Stacey Abrams

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 “I am here to play women’s tennis. I’m a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.” — Serena Williams

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“Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.” — Ovid

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“So many women just don’t know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside.” — Mary Kay Ash

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 “We do need women in civic life. We do need women to run for office, to be in political office. We need a feminist to be at the table when decisions are being made so that the right decisions will be made.” — Dolores Huerta

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 “All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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“I once told Tommy Smothers, ‘If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.’” — Pat Paulsen

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“I think there are opportunities for women in comedies – how zany is up to them.” — Jennifer Aniston

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 “I always play women I would date.” — Angelina Jolie

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“Women artists are still treated differently from men.” — Yoko Ono

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 “Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo – Jo being the writer and the misfit.” — Patti Smith

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 “I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it’s a struggle, a competition of careers. There’s jealousy.” — Marilyn Manson