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What Women Say is the go-to resource of quotes by extraordinary females that provides you with a broader set of voices on your stage, paper, and screen.
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Self-knowledge
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it....
Julia Child
Motivation
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams....
Eleanor Roosevelt
Work
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the p...
Zaha Hadid
Activism
We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society...
Angela Davis
Relationships
Beginnings are always ripe with possibilities, for they hold the promise of completion. Through love we imagin...
Esther Perel
Creativity
The conscious principle in this design has been to achieve forms that could create experiences, and that could...
Gae Aulenti
Activism
Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empow...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Self-knowledge
Taking each item in your hand, asking yourself whether it sparks joy, and deciding on this basis whether or no...
Marie Kondo
Motivation
If I find myself complaining about something I have two options; Do something about it or let it go....
Tina Roth Eisenberg
Sociability
True belonging is not passive. It's not the belonging that comes with just joining a group. It's not fitting i...
Brené Brown
Activism
If you still say that we are wasting valuable lesson time, then let me remind you that our political leaders h...
Greta Thunberg
Self-knowledge
And when you’re afraid of someone’s judgment, you can’t connect with them. You’re too preoccupied with the tas...
Amanda Palmer
Activism
But I've learned you are never too small to make a difference. And if a few children can get headlines all ove...
Greta Thunberg
Self-knowledge
Give light and people will find the way....
Ella Baker
Activism
Those who do not move, do not notice their chains....
Rosa Luxemburg
Activism
To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women....
Angela Davis
Feminism
Equality is rarely on the menu at the finest restaurants. Gender equality doesn’t just happen, it’s the ingred...
Dominique Crenn
Work
The notion of sprinkling a smile into everything we do is really important to me....
Tina Roth Eisenberg
Feminism
Eva’s only fault has been the one of wanting to know more, to experiment and search with her own sources the l...
Margherita Hack
Self-knowledge
There are times when I feel like I'm in a big forest and don't know where I'm going. But then somehow I come t...
Maryam Mirzakhani
Self-knowledge
When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as importantly, however, ...
Maria Popova
Motivation
Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Not a career. Not wealth. Not inte...
Audrey Hepburn
Work
Design and branding are inextricably linked to the way in which society, culture, the environment, and busines...
Debbie Millman
Self-knowledge
Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ I try to fight that. That’s ...
Grace Hopper
Activism
Any acceptance of humiliation, indignity, or insult is acceptable of inferiority....
Winnie Mandela
Activism
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only ...
Margaret Mead
Education
Extremists have shown what frightens them most: a girl with a book...
Malala Yousafzai
Motivation
If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude....
Maya Angelou
Self-knowledge
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well....
Virginia Woolf
Self-knowledge
If you feel good about who you are inside, it will radiate....
Patti Smith
Self-knowledge
I look at my life as my biggest design project I have....
Tina Roth Eisenberg
Self-knowledge
When you're criticized for something it's best to wait for two or three years and see....
Gae Aulenti
Relationships
Today, we turn to one person to provide what an entire village once did: a sense of grounding, meaning, and co...
Esther Perel
Activism
I believe in an international community of interests, in a concert of all the private voices. Now it makes no ...
Lina Bo Bardi
Motivation
Asking for help with shame says: You have power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over...
Amanda Palmer
Activism
The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that t...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Feminism
Strong men, men who are truly role models, don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful....
Michelle Obama
Activism
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been b...
Oriana Fallaci
Motivation
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free ... so other people would be also free....
Rosa Parks
Motivation
Courage is like—it's a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It's like you learn to swim ...
Brené Brown
Activism
Until you start focusing on what needs to be done rather than what is politically possible, there is no hope. ...
Greta Thunberg
Self-knowledge
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people wh...
Oprah Winfrey
Self-knowledge
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom....
Anaïs Nin
Self-knowledge
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never for...
Maya Angelou
Sociability
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful...
Alice Waters
Education
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think....
Margaret Mead
Self-knowledge
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it....
Mary Oliver
Motivation
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we m...
Marie Curie
Motivation
Nothing will work unless you do....
Maya Angelou
Creativity
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of ...
J. K. Rowling
Activism
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization...
Oriana Fallaci
Education
Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society....
Maria Montessori
Self-knowledge
If I've learned one thing in life, it's not to be so judgmental of other people....
Patti Smith
Self-knowledge
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be abl...
Zaha Hadid
Work
What works good is better than what looks good, because what works good lasts....
Ray Eames
Self-knowledge
Compassion emerges from imagining the world alive....
Alexandra Horowitz
Activism
Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obed...
Angela Davis
Sociability
Belonging so fully to yourself that you're willing to stand alone is a wilderness -- an untamed, unpredictable...
Brené Brown
Feminism
I do not wish women to have power over men: but over themselves....
Mary Shelley
Self-knowledge
There’s a difference between wanting to be looked at and wanting to be seen. When you are looked at, your eyes...
Amanda Palmer
Activism
What matter is the information, not what you think about it....
Anna Politkovskaya
Feminism
Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented—their potential astonishingly untapped....
Emma Watson
Self-knowledge
When I’m not feeling my best I ask myself, ‘What are you gonna do about it?’ I use the negativity to fuel the ...
Beyoncé
Feminism
The word ‘female,’ when inserted in front of something, is always with a note of surprise. Female COO, female ...
Sheryl Sandberg
Creativity
Linear time is a western invention; time is not linear. It is a marvellous tangle where at any moment, points ...
Lina Bo Bardi
Feminism
I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in al...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Creativity
A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know....
Diane Arbus
Activism
But I've learned you are never too small to make a difference. And if a few children can get headlines all ove...
Greta Thunberg
Activism
I believe that change comes from the bottom, not the top....
Gloria Steinem
Self-knowledge
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of bec...
Anna Quindlen
Self-knowledge
The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration, then more practice and more concentration....
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Motivation
You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge....
Octavia Spencer
Activism
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated....
Coretta Scott King
Motivation
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin....
Mother Theresa
Motivation
The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You ...
Amelia Earhart
Work
It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's ...
Jeanne Moreau
Relationships
We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, ...
Diane Ackerman
Feminism
I am and always will be a catalyst for change....
Shirley Chisholm
Motivation
Never give up. People will always discount you, and you'll always get rejected. But set your sights high. Be b...
Reshma Saujani
Feminism
Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being....
Miriam Makeba
Self-knowledge
I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested...
Louisa May Abbott
Activism
Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved....
Jane Goodall
Motivation
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay....
Simone de Beauvoir
Self-knowledge
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in e...
Karen Blixen
Activism
Some people, some companies, some decision-makers in particular, have known exactly what priceless values they...
Greta Thunberg
Feminism
I have always been that girl in the back who doesn’t say anything. I thought I couldn’t make a difference beca...
Greta Thunberg
Feminism
I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in al...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Activism
I believe in an international community of interests, in a concert of all the private voices. Now it makes no ...
Lina Bo Bardi
Education
We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach....
Gloria Steinem
Motivation
You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by impleme...
Shirley Chisholm
Feminism
I know that women, once convinced that they are doing what is right, that their rebellion is just, will go on,...
Emmeline Pankhurst
Activism
If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair....
Shirley Chisholm
Motivation
It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and...
Tove Jansson
Activism
Some people, some companies, some decision-makers in particular, have known exactly what priceless values they...
Greta Thunberg
Self-knowledge
As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship...
Pema Chödrön
Motivation
The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration, then more practice and more concentration....
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
Self-knowledge
Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen....
Brené Brown
Activism
I believe in an international community of interests, in a concert of all the private voices. Now it makes no ...
Lina Bo Bardi
Self-knowledge
There’s a difference between wanting to be looked at and wanting to be seen. When you are looked at, your eyes...
Amanda Palmer
Work
I found I could say things in colour that I couldn’t say any other way - things I had no words for....
Georgia O'Keffe
Self-knowledge
I've always had the feeling that nothing is impossible if one applies a certain amount of energy in the right ...
Nellie Bly
Motivation
As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and dea...
Jeanne Moreau
Motivation
What people see as fearlessness is really persistence....
Wangari Maathai
Motivation
No matter where you're from your dreams are valid....
Lupita Nyong'o
