Empowering Feminist Quotes from Inspiring Women

"If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman."
Margaret Thatcher

"I'm tough, ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay."
Madonna

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Feminism isn't about making women stronger. Women are already strong, it's about changing the way the world perceives that strength."
G.D. Anderson

Women are always saying, 'We can do anything that men can do.' But men should be saying, 'We can do anything that women can do.'
Gloria Steinem

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

"I am a woman / Phenomenally / Phenomenal woman / That's me."
Maya Angelou

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. … It shouldn't be that women are the exception.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"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

"A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman."
Melinda Gates