In honor of last week's International Women's Day, here is a collection of some of the most motivational, inspirational, and impactful quotes by women, for women. This goes out to all the women out there and the men who love, respect, and support them.
1. "I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott, author
2. "I'm tough, I'm ambitious and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, OK." - Madonna, singer and songwriter
3. "I always believes that one woman's success can only help another woman's success." - Gloria Vanderbilt, designer and pop culture icon
4. "Well behaved women rarely make history." -Marilyn Monroe, actress and model
5. "A woman is like a tea bag—you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water." - Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady
6. "Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others." - Amelia Earhart, American aviation pioneer
7. "If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman." - Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the UK dubbed the "Iron Lady"
8. "Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open." - Emma Goldman, political activist
9. "After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'" - Anna Quindlen, author
10. "Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse." - Golda Meir, influential Israeli teacher and former Prime Minister of Israel
11. "Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience and wisdom." - Alice Walker, author and activist
12. "I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore." - Georgia O'Keeffe, artist
13. "Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?" - Barbra Streisand, singer, songwriter and actress
14. "Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult." - Charlotte Whitton, first female mayor of a major Canadian city
15. “We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” – Marie Curie, chemist and physicist
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16. “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”– Ayn Rand, author and philosopher
17. "I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves." -Mary Wollstonecraft, writer and women's rights advocate
18. "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will." - Charlotte Brontë, novelist and poet
19. "We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced." - Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for women's education rights and youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate
20. "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud." - Coco Chanel, fashion icon
