Best Women Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.”

“I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.”

“I like my whisky old and my women young.”

“There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.”

“There is a part of 'Wonder Woman' inside me and inside every woman, kind of that secret self that women share. We are all caretakers, giving birth, caring for our children and companions and loved ones.”

“Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.”

“Until the masculine role is humanized, women will tend to be much better at solving dangerous conflicts.”

“People appreciate a confident man. They love a strong man, and when it comes to a woman, I don't know if people just expect women not to speak up for themselves or be weak or just always be the follow-behind, but I'm proud that I'm in a generation of leaders. I'm proud that I'm surrounded by very strong women.”

“A woman should be like a single flower, not a whole bouquet.”

“This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.”

“Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.”

“Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.”

“Three things have been difficult to tame: the oceans, fools and women. We may soon be able to tame the oceans; fools and women will take a little longer.”

“I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.”

“If outsider perspectives made 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Dark Knight' into fantastic franchises, imagine what would happen if you brought in the perspectives of women and people of color.”

“Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.”

“Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.”

“Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.”

“The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.”

“The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public.”

“If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.”

“I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women who would argue over what kind of pants you were wearing or the color of your nail polish.”

“It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.”

“If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.”

“I have never met anyone who did not support our troops. Sometimes, however, we hear accusations that someone or some group does not support the men and women serving in our Armed Forces. But this is pure demagoguery, and it is intellectually dishonest.”

“I believe Native Americans, women, and all of us deserve representation, and that we all need to fight with everything we have to make it so.”

“Women don't take enough risks. Men are just 'foot on the gas pedal.' We're not going to close the achievement gap until we close the ambition gap.”

“Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.”

“After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.”

“The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.”

“I have low self-esteem and I always have. Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long-hair type. Really beautiful women that left me thinking, 'How I can I compete with that?' Being a regular black girl wasn't good enough.”

“I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.”

“It's incredibly unfair. You don't see a lot of 60-year-old women with 20-year-old men onscreen.”

“Many men admire strong women, but they don't love them.”

“Listen, 'real' women are the reason the fashion industry exists.”

“I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women.”

“Humanitarian issues must bring together all people who act in good faith trying to alleviate the suffering of people in dire need - especially women, children and the elderly.”

“With my early work I got eviscerated by my male professors, and so you learned to disguise your impulses, as many women have done. And that's definitely changed.”

“I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.”

“Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.”

“I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to see our head table at Newnham.”

“A lot of women wrote to me. Some wrote me long letters on the meaning of the circle and about mythology and about motherhood and the significance or the symbolism of the mermaid and the frogs and the turtles.”

“It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.”

“Women have this obsession with shoes.”

“Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.”

“I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in.”

“My parents wouldn't let me shave it earlier, so I made a PowerPoint presentation to convince them. I strategically put pictures of bald women in there.”

“My law school class in the late 1950s numbered over 500. That class included less than 10 women.”

“Most people don't know that I am an accomplished dramatic actor... But I've performed in several Shakespeare productions including Hamlet, except in this version, Hamlet lives in an apartment with two women, and has to pretend he's gay so that the landlord won't evict him.”

“I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.”

“There are many, many different kinds of intersectional exclusions - not just black women but other women of color. Not just people of color, but people with disabilities. Immigrants. LGBTQ people. Indigenous people.”

“When anything goes, it's women who lose.”

“For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.”

“I think if women are visible in the media, truly visible, in an empowered role, it empowers us to be more visible in any area of our lives.”

“I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.”

“When I traveled around the country visiting women in their own homes and talking to them about their closets, every woman lamented about 'settling' for many of the pieces in her closet.”

“People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.”

“I am blessed to have so many women around in the family.”

“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.”

“Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.”

“Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV.”

“Women hear rhythm differently than men.”

“It is true that a fellow cannot ignore women - but he can think of them as he ought - as sisters, not as sparring partners.”

“The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.”

“We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.”

“Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.”

“Women, you can have it all - a loving man, devoted husband, loving children, a fabulous career.”

“There's no prerequisites to worthiness. You're born worthy, and I think that's a message a lot of women need to hear.”

“Until women are as ambitious as men, they're not gong to achieve as much as men.”

“There is a physical relationship with a woman that you don't have with anybody else, but that's not about love. Love is a spiritual thing.”

“I come from a background where bigger women are appreciated. After all, you can't belly dance with a flat stomach, so my ideal body would be curvy, womanly and voluptuous.”

“Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.”

“I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.”

“My gender has never been an issue or a limitation. I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by strong women growing up, and with them as my role models, I was never limited by the traditional roles women find themselves in.”

“Women are nothing but machines for producing children.”

“The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.”

“I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.”

“'The Daily Show,' which was created by women, Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg, has earned quite a bit of ink for the fact that it's written mostly by men.”

“I don't think I'm a bigot or a racist. But I have a truck, a Blazer. I drink beer. There are some women I do hate.”

“To me, women have always been the sturdiest people in my life and have been incredible sources of energy.”

“Throughout my career I have been an advocate for women, in all aspects of their lives.”

“Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.”

“Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S.”

“I understand that many young men and women are coming forward to join Youth Congress. I am not surprised. It is only natural. The vast majority of our youth is sober and idealistic. It looks forward to an era of disciplined, planned, constructive activity.”

“Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.”

“What's wrong with trying hard and showing up and being good at your job? We really need to look at ourselves and say we need to reevaluate this. We need to reevaluate that women who ask for a pay raise or ask for a promotion - it's actually an okay thing. It's okay to be ambitious; it's okay to be over-prepared.”

“The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy.”

“I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.”

“There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype 100 percent. Anything that deviates from that is very exciting for them.”

“I applaud Women in Film - not only for celebrating the successes of women, but for providing a safety network to mentor women and to discuss the particular issues that arise in a very male-dominated industry.”

“Violence against women is real and something I feel passionately about, and the gateway to all that is wolf whistling. It's allowing a man to impose his will on a woman who is just trying to walk down the street and live her life. It's all about unwanted versus wanted attention, and, of course, there's a fine line.”

“I remember when I started modelling and being the only non-white girl in the fashion show. I was grateful to be there, but at the casting, there had been many beautiful women of different descriptions, and I was wondering why they were not being represented.”

“Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.”

“There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.”

“I want to empower women. I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.”

“There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.”

“Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.”

“We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.”

“I would love to do a chick flick sometime soon, a film with strong female characters - when I say strong, I don't mean that they are changing the world, but just be real women.”

“There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.”