inspirational female quotes by famous authors

inspirational female quotes by famous authors

"I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you're supposed to be to live a more authentic life."

Laverne Cox

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“I want to build a community where women of all races can communicate and ... continue to support and take care of each other. I want to give women a space to feel their own strength and tell their stories. That is power.”

Beyoncé

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"You don't have to be pretty. You don't owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female.'"

Erin McKean

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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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“They'll tell you you're too loud, that you need to wait your turn and ask the right people for permission. Do it anyway.”

Alexandria Ocasio Cortez

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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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“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”

Rebecca West

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“Wouldn’t it be nice if Black girls weren’t inundated with negative, sexist comments about Black women? If they were told instead of the many important things that we’ve achieved? ... Black women, too often in the shadows of such accomplishments, actually powered the civil rights movement.”

Megan Thee Stallion

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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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"In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders."

Sheryl Sandberg

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"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression."

The Cohambee River Collective

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"Women's freedom is the sign of social freedom."

Rosa Luxemburg

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"Women’s speech—and the fact that we are now listening to it—has enraged men in a way that makes them determined to reestablish the longstanding hierarchy of power in America. ... And yet this awful truth will not stop women from speaking, and I do not think that it will turn a movement into a moment. It has become clear that there is not nearly enough left to lose."

Jia Tolentino

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"They cannot stand that a refugee, a black woman, an immigrant, a Muslim, shows up in Congress thinking she's equal to them. But I say to them, 'How else did you expect me to show up?'"

Ilhan Omar

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"It's important to teach our female youth that it's OK to say, 'Yes, I am good at this,' and you don't hold back.”

Simone Biles

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"Maybe it just boils down to: I'm a woman who's really into her career, so I'm obsessed with the craft of my work. … There's a romance in that for me.”

Mitski

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"In my opinion, the most exciting potential of women of color formations resides in the possibility of politicizing this identity—basing the identity on politics rather than the politics on identity."

Angela Davis