21 Powerful Women's Day Quotes for Women's Day 2021

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This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “Choose to Challenge.” We’ve gathered our favorite quotes from women about women to celebrate and honor the accomplishments of women across the world! Use as social captions or share with friends!

  1. “We need to live in a culture that values and respects and looks up to and idolizes women as much as men.” – Emma Watson

  2. “A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.”- Madonna

  3. “Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress.” – Kiera Cass

  4. “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Deliah

  5. “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

  6. “A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows she has none.”- Marilyn Monroe

  7. “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

  8. “Where there is a woman, there is magic.”- Ntozake Shange

  9. “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

  10. “We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.” – Beyoncé

  11. “I don’t know a woman alive who isn’t courageous.”- Reese Witherspoon

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

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

  14. “I do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves.”- Mary Shelley

  15. “If you are always trying to be normal, you’ll never know how amazing you can be.” – Maya Angelou

  16. “As soon as I had enough agency in my life to grow up, I became who I am.”- Janet Mock

  17. “Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights.”- Hillary Clinton

  18. “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

  19. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping-stone to greatness.”- Oprah

  20. “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”- Margaret Thatcher

  21. “Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you.” – Viola Davis