Top 100 Inspirational Quotes For Women of 2024

Throughout history, women were being told what they should do, how to behave, how to think, and how to feel about certain things in their lives. In today’s era of feminism, it seems that women decided to fight back, and ask for more freedom and equality between genders. It is important to acknowledge that empowering women does not mean belittling or punishing men, as some may think. 
Suffering from gender role assumptions that place expectations upon anyone to live and act a certain way is something every human being has been facing. Some truly believe that equality is visible, because the patriarchal system no longer exists, but given the facts that females vote more than men in most of the countries, and they make up more than half the population, but still don’t take the half of seats of the leading country body, like Congress, don’t make those beliefs trustable.
No one can argue that the great strides toward gender equality have been taken over the past century, but it seems that there is more to be done. Empowering women is important in any society. It has been shown, since the beginning of time, that women can do great things. That’s why we made a list of 100 inspirational quotes for women from women. Take a look.

• „You must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first.“ (Rupi Kaur)
• „If I asked you to name all the things that you love, how long would it take for you to name yourself?“ (Unknown)
• „Don’t be the girl who fell. Be the girl who got back up.“ (Jenette Stanley)
• „Is there another you? Answer that. No, right? Is there another me? Is there another Dani? Is there another Beyonce in this world? Some people try to be. Some people try to be but they can’t because it’s physically and internally and emotionally impossible. That’s where you start to put some personality, start to put some of yourself in there. That’s when it becomes magic and that’s when nothing else matters. It’s because you feel it, it’s because you know you’re the sh*t in the most loving way. It’s about self-love. Do you guys know what self-love is? I don’t think we do. Self-love is doing things that make us happy. It’s about practicing those things that make us feel good whether it be music whether it be dancing because I’m loving myself because I’m doing what I love.“ (Aliya Janell)
• „Barbz, stay in school. Don’t ever be lazy, don’t you ever complain about hard work. Work hard, it pays off.“ (Nicki Minaj)
• „Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone’s throat.“ (Mila Kunis)
• „My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.“ (Maya Angelou)
• „In group settings, men are 75% more likely to speak up than women, and a woman does speak up, it’s statistically probable her male counterparts will either interrupt her or speak over her. It’s not because they’re rude, it’s science. The female voice is scientifically proven to be more difficult for the male brain to register. What does this mean? It means, in this world where men are bigger, stronger, faster, if you’re not ready to fight, the silence will kill you.“ (Grey’s Anatomy)

• „Nudity empowers some, modesty empowers some. Different things empower different  women and it’s not your place to tell her which one it is.“ (Unknown)
• „You is kind. You are smart. You are important.“ (The Help)
• „My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.“ (Hedy Lamarr)
• „My mom said to me, ’One day, you should settle down and marry a rich man’ I said, ’Mom, I am a rich man’.“ (Cher)

• „The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I’m the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don’t have a cherry.“ (Halle Berry)
• „What’s the greatest lesson a woman should learn? That since day one, she’s already had everything she needs within herself. It’s the world that convinced her she did not.“ (Rupi Kaur)
• „Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.“ (Beyonce)
• „If you’re willing to stand for what you believe in … you won’t need advice from me, because you will be able to handle whatever comes.“ (Whoopi Goldberg)
• „Women are leaders everywhere you look-from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women, and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.“ (Nancy Pelosi)
• „You don’t have a job? Get one. Any job. Don’t sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity.“ (Shonda Rhimes)
• „You should be smart enough to know that you don’t know anything. But you have to believe in yourself.“ (Diane Kruger)
• „The idea that sex is something a woman gives a man, and she loses something when she does that, which again for me is nonsense. I want us to raise girls differently where boys and girls start to see sexuality as something that they own, rather than something that a boy takes from a girl.“ (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
• „I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; we deserve lipstick, if we want it, and free speech; we deserve to be sexual and serious – or whatever we please. We are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution.“ (Naomi Wolf)

  

• „Femininity for me means happiness and freedom…freedom of being who you are in whatever shape or size you come in.“ (Kate Winslet)
• „Poor is the (wo)man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.“ (Madonna)
• „Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say. ’She doesn’t have what it takes.’ They will say, ’Women don’t have what it takes.’’“ (Clare Boothe Luce)
• „The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.“ (Barbara Corcoran)
• „I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say ‘yes, women can.’” (Dilma Rousseff)
• “Done is better than perfect.” (Sheryl Sandberg)
• „Falling in love-you should go with it, regardless of whether or not your heart gets smashed. You’ll be a better person.“ (Sandra Bullock)
• “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” (Mother Teresa)
• „No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.“ (Madonna)
• „People should realize women aren’t just whores or virgins, I want to see women who are real human beings.“ (Kate Beckinsale)
• „You’re supposed to be the leading lady in your own life, for God’s sake!“ (Kate Winslet)
• „Always, always, always believe in yourself. Because if you don’t, then who will, sweetie?“ (Marilyn Monroe)
• „Somebody told me that if you wake up every day and do stuff that’s easy, then you’re doing the wrong thing. If you wake up every day and do stuff that’s really hard and you manage to get through to people, then you’re doing the right thing. They might have just fooled me by telling me that, but it worked. I think that’s my philosophy. (M.I.A.)

  

• „You are a human being. You are a person. You can 100% change the world. It’s the little things that really count. Be brave.“ (Emma Watson)
• „You must never behave as if your life belongs to a man. Do you hear me?’ Aunty Ifeka said. ‘Your life belongs to you and you alone.“ (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
• „Be your own boss, love yourself, get up and dance. Level up.“ (Ciara)
• „Does my sexiness upset you?
  Does it come as a surprise
  That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
  At the meeting of my thighs?“ (Maya Angelou)
• „True love doesn’t come to you, it has to be inside you.“ (Julia Roberts)
• „Happy girls are the prettiest.“ (Audrey Hepburn)
• „Too many girls want attention, but not enough want respect.“ (Unknown)
• „Feeling good comes from within. Loving who you are and being kind to youself are the keys to confidence. People love you because of who you are, not what you wear or what you look like. I am who I am and I’m proud of all of it.“ (Jennifer Aniston)
• „A woman is like a tea bag, you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.“ (Eleanor Roosevelt)
• „Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.“ (Marie Curie)
• „This isn’t just ’girls are better than boys, boys are better than girls’. This is just, ’Everyone deserves a fair chance.’“ (Emma Watson)
• „It’s important to have female solidarity and support each other.“ (Rose Byrne)
• „I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.“ (Madonna)

  

• „Sexiness is a state of mind – a comfortable state of being. It’s about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.“ (Halle Berry)
• „When I first came out, I was a film student and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone’s hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that’s what I did. But I did it in the most creative way possible.“ (M.I.A.)
• „That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.“ (Ada Lovelace)
• „If I didn’t have some kind of education, then I wouldn’t be able to count my money.“ (Missy Elliot)
• „Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That’s the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.“ (Hedy Lamarr)
• „I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.“ (Lil’ Kim)
• „I’m a child of the Women’s Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn’t have to be limited in any way.“ (Foxy Brown)
• „Best beauty tip… Work yourself from the inside out. Eat right, drink right, look right! Positive energy brings a certain glow, so think positive, choose positive, be positive & attract positiveness. It always shows up on the outside.“ (Mya)

• „You need to find the power within to make [things] happen for yourself. When you realize this, you are unstoppable.“ (Christina Aguilera)
• „You have to remember the value of your individuality – that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.“ (Jennifer Lopez)
• „Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It’s up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.“ (Mary J. Blige)
• „Let’s reserve judgment for people who beat their children, sell their daughters into prostitution, or deny women the right to make decisions about their bodies and their lives.“ (Mayim Bialik)
• „Stay triumphant, keep on living. Stay on your toes, get off the ropes. Don’t let ’em ever count you out.“ (Mariah Carey)

• „I believe education is the key. As an activist and a child of the developing world, I witnessed education’s power to transform lives.“ (Shakira)
• „We’re smart enough to make these millions, strong enough to bare the children, then get back to business.“ (Beyonce)
• „I don’t get bitter, I just get better.“ (Rihanna)
• „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)
• „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)
• „We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.“ (Sheryl Sandberg)
• „No woman should be told she can’t make decisions about her own body. When women’s rights are under attack, we fight back.“ (Kamala Harris)
• „Women will be hidden no more. We will not remain hidden figures. We have names…It was a woman that gave you Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was a woman that gave you Malcolm X. And according to the Bible, it was a woman that gave you Jesus. Don’t you ever forget it.“ (Janelle Monáe)

  

• „How about we respect people’s body boundaries and encourage each other to feel like a babe no matter how they are? That [would] be nice.“ (Ariana Grande)
• „Females in our generation morals are just out the window. Materialistic things aren’t life. I’d rather walk in the rain with a man who treats me like a queen than to ride in a Benz with a man who treats me like crap.“ (Jhene Aiko)
• „As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, “I love my body”. Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, “I am so proud of my body.” So I make sure to say it to Mia , because a positive physical outlook has to start at an early age.“ (Kate Winslet)
• „I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard…we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.“ (Malala Yousafzai)
• „I allowed social media to define what I thought of my body. And now I realize that no matter how thin you are, someone will call you fat. No matter how beautiful you are, someone will call you ugly. But you can’t spend your time worrying about that. You’re just not going to please the world.“ (Demi Lovato)
• „When you do your best and live out your dreams, you inspire others to do the same.“ (Demi Lovato)
• „You are more powerful than you know.“ (Melissa Etheridge)

  

• „I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.“ (Emma Stone)
• „Keep your heels, head, and standards high.“ (Coco Chanel)
• „Girls, respect yourselves. Keep your head held high and speak only kind words. Know your truth. No one can ever take that away from you.“ (Ariana Grande)
• „No one intimidates me because I’m not trying to do what you do, because I can’t do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.“ (Mary J. Blige)
• „I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.“ (Oprah Winfrey)
• „The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.“ (Coco Chanel)
• „I don’t associate with people who blame the world for their problems. You are your problem. You are also your solution.“ (Melissa McCarthy)
• „You can do anything you decide to.“ (Amelia Earhart)
• „I’ve been reading The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, which is obviously very dated now but still relevant. It’s so interesting to see how far we’ve come and how far we haven’t come with all these myths that people put onto women.“ (Rose Byrne)

• „You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.“ (Barbara De Angelis)
• „In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you’ll survive.“ (Whoopi Goldberg)
• „Because of the person I am, I won’t be knocked down — ever. They can say I’m fat, I’m thin, I’m whatever, and I’ll never stop. I just won’t. I’ve got too much to do. I’ve too much to be happy about.“ (Kate Winslet)
• „You should embrace who you are, and make the best person that you can be, not what somebody else wants you to be.“ (Raven-Symone)
• „An instructor once told me that when there’s resistance in your body, it’s only because of the resistance in your mind. It’s about getting inside the pose. Being the breath.“ (Lisa Bonet)
• „Always remember, you will live, you will love, you will dance again.“ (Jennifer Lopez)
• „You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.“ (Rihanna)
• „Beauty is not just physical. It’s about what you stand for, how you live your life.“ (Halle Berry)
• „You are beautiful in every single way. Words can’t bring you down.“ (Christina Aguilera)
• „The reason I stopped modeling was because I wasn’t pleased with trying to portray something that is impossible to reach. Even when I do photoshoots now for films, I’m just not interested in trying to look my best all the time anymore. That pursuit of an impossible perfection seems ridiculous to me now. I’d rather show my vulnerabilities or my doubts than try to be something that no one is.“ (Diane Kruger)

  

• „There’s no race, no religion, no class system, no color – nothing – no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We’re all deserving of love.“ (Sandra Bullock)
• „My favorite track from the album Independent is Hold On. Everyone at some point fights battles or has struggles, and in moments of doubt or defeat, this is the song coming from a place of never giving up. It makes me think of the angel on the shoulder voicing understanding but guiding you in the right direction to take you out of that dark place.“ (Mya)
• „I think, when you’re great, not everyone’s going to give you your props, and you can’t really worry about that. In my eyes, I’m still climbing. I’m still taking myself to the next levels in my career, and that’s fine with me. When it’s time for my rewards, I will get them.“ (Lil’ Kim)
• „I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become too one thing in American media. Achieving happiness is not really about having a flat stomach and the best car.“ (M.I.A.)
• „It’s important to recognize your own self-destructive behavior and be honest about it. You’re only hurting yourself or losing out on your truth and happiness. I’m not afraid to face my own personal stuff. It’s so important to dig it up and figure it out and move on.“ (Christina Aguilera)
• „Power to me is the ability to make a change in a positive way.“ (Victoria Justice)