Top 53 Exquisite Quotes for Women on Women’s Day

Women are creators, preservers, and nurturers. To celebrate these phenomenal women, Viraasi has brought to you an exclusive list of Top Quotes for Women on this Women’s Day 2023.

We know how every aspect of our lives is enriched by the contributions of different women in our society. We acknowledge their efforts; we understand and empathize with their situation. The involvement of women in our society goes down to very finer areas. As a result, it is still quite difficult to summarize what, as a society, we owe to these powerful women.

On this Women’s Day 2023, the team of Viraasi has put together a list of timeless quotes for women to celebrate their contributions, efforts, strength, and irreplaceable role in our society. If you love these beautiful and inspiring quotes, don’t forget to share them on social media apps like WhatsApp with your favorite women. Wishing you all a very Happy Women’s Day.

Top Empowering & Feminist Quotes for Women on Women’s Day 2023

“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.” - Audrey Hepburn
“My mission in life is not merely to survive but to thrive and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” - Maya Angelou
“I raise up my voice—not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. … We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.” - Malala Yousafzai
“Women should do for themselves what men have already done—occasionally what men have not done—thereby establishing themselves as persons, and perhaps encouraging other women toward greater independence of thought and action.” - Amelia Earhart
“I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Hear me as a woman./Have me as your sister./On purpled battlefield breaking day,/So I might say our victory is just beginning,/See me as change,/Say I am movement,/That I am the year,/and I am the era/of the women.” - Amanda Gorman
“The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.” - Beyoncé Knowles
“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” - Margaret Thatcher
“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
“Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.” - Frida Kahlo
“If you're always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” - Maya Angelou
“I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.” - Diane Von Furstenberg
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” - Audre Lorde
“Once I learned to like me more than others did, then I didn't have to worry about being the funniest or the most popular or the prettiest. I was the best me and I only ever tried to be that.” - Issa Rae
“Justice is about making sure that being polite is not the same thing as being quiet. In fact, often times, the most righteous thing you can do is shake the table.” - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“There's power in allowing yourself to be known and heard, in owning your unique story, in using your authentic voice.” - Michelle Obama
“Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.” - Kavita Ramdas
“There's something so special about a woman who dominates in a man's world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer.” – Rihanna
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.” - Maya Angelou
“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
“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.” - Dolly Parton
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” - Judy Garland
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” - Nora Ephron
“Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.” - Arianna Huffington
“If you’re one of those people who has that little voice in the back of her mind saying, ‘Maybe I could do [fill in the blank],’ don’t tell it to be quiet. Give it a little room to grow, and try to find an environment it can grow in.” - Reese Witherspoon
“I found that ultimately if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in — even if it makes you vulnerable — amazing things can and will happen.” - Emma Watson
“There is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” - Jane Austen
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” - J.K. Rowling
“Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention.” - P!nk
“Figure out who are you separate from your family. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that’s the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self. With that, you can do anything else.” - Angelina Jolie
“My movement is my movement. When all the dust has settled on the groundbreaking-ness, I’m going to still be doing this. I’m not going to suddenly change. I’m going to still be telling my life story through music. And if that’s body-positive to you, amen. If that’s feminist to you, amen. If that’s pro-black to you, amen. Because ma’am, I’m all of those things.” – Lizzo
“Women that believe in each other can survive anything. Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars.” - Nikita Gill
“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.” - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“We need to get women to the point where they aren’t apologizing. It’s time to take ownership in our success.” - Tory Burch
“You could make a case that, along with the technological revolution, the most provocative upending destabilizing thrilling change in the course of human history is that we’re finally in it. … We're here now, women are in the world, and we will not be bullied.” - Meryl Streep
“Women will be hidden no more. We will not remain hidden figures. We have names. … It was woman that gave you Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It was 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
“I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.” - Tracee Ellis Ross
“A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts.” - Nancy Rathburn
“A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.” - Carly Simon
“A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” - Diane Mariechild
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” - Toni Morrison
“I don’t think about beauty. I wake up and I want to be a smarter person, that’s my focus. I’m encouraging certainly my girls that if they can make their inside and who they are really, really stunning then everything falls together.” - Angelina Jolie
“By propagating women's nature as non-violent they are discouraging women from becoming fighters in the struggle for their own liberation and that of society.” - Anuradha Ghandy
“For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.” - Audre Lorde
“When a woman is assaulted, one of the first questions people ask is, Did you say no? This question assumes that the answer was always yes, and that it is her job to revoke the agreement. To defuse the bomb she was given. But why are they allowed to touch us until we physically fight them off? Why is the door open until we have to slam it shut?” - Chanel Miller
“In a world that wants women to whisper, I choose to yell.” - “I’ve often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there’s a fight to be won. If a woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.” - Karen Hawkins
“Behind every great woman... is another great woman." - Kate Hodges
“I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.” - Florence Nightingale
“If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. In our thoughts and words, we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths. Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.” - Betty Eadie
“Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.” - Marianne Williamson
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” - Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” -- Helen Keller