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Best Women’s History Month Quotes to Inspire and Empower

March is a time to celebrate the incredible achievements of women, and what better way to reflect on some of the most inspiring Women’s History Month Quotes?

These sayings are not just powerful reminders of the strength and resilience of women, but they inspire us to strive for progress.

I’ve got four children, two of them daughters and I want them to hear the stories of exceptional women who paved the way for us and those who are still inspiring today.

Whether you’re looking for motivation or want to celebrate the trailblazing women before us, these quotes will empower you.

So let’s jump in!

Ways to Celebrate Women’s History Month

Celebrate Women’s History Month in March to honor the women of today and those who came before and changed the course of history.

You can do that in many ways including supporting small businesses owned by female entrepreneurs and volunteering at a woman-based charity or organization.

Read books written by women – adult books and those for children. Read them to your kids and tell them about the author behind the insightful stories.

Speaking of which- teach your kids! Tell them about the incredible women who have made a difference in our world.

My daughter has an upcoming assignment for her elementary school where she must pick an inspiring person to study. She chose aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. She’s going to wear an Amelia Earhart costume and give a verbal report on her for the project, and I couldn’t be prouder.

Another idea is to join the Walk for Women on International Women’s Day – March 8.

Women's history month quotes - Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa, source: Wikipedia, healing the world's problems one child at a time
Saint Mother Teresa, was a Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, and is a Catholic saint.
Maya Angelou Source: Getty Images, Women's History Month Quotes
Maya Angelou was an American author, poet, civil rights activist and Hollywood’s first Black female director.

Women Achieve Power

  • “There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” — Michelle Obama
  • “Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” — Maya Angelou
  • “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” – Maya Angelou
  • “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” — Frida Kahlo
  • “I want all the girls without an exception to have that space for themselves where they have opportunities to be the women they wish to be.” — Priyanka Chopra
  • “If you want to change the world, go home and love your family.” – Mother Teresa
Source: Wikipedia, Women's History Month Quotes
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and biographer
Australian author and Gospel teacher Christine Caine. Strong woman teaching younger generations about Jesus. source: Gothan Artists
Christine Caine is an Australian activist, evangelist, and author. Caine and her husband founded The A21 Campaign combats human trafficking around the globe
Known as the founder of modern nursing Florence Nightingale - source: Getty Images
Florence Nightingale was an English social reformer and the founder of modern nursing.

Courage and Resilience

  • “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  • “The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that… women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.” — Louise Otto
  • “Women’s history is women’s right… an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long-range vision.” — Gerda Lerner
  • “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” — Virginia Woolf
  • “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” — Ambrose Redmoon
  • “Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions louder than your words…” – Christine Caine
  • “Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.” – Christine Caine
  • “I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took an excuse”.  – Florence Nightingale
Dolly Parton Source: Instagram, Women's History Month Quotes
Dolly Parton is an American singer, songwriter and philanthropist
Emmeline Pankhurst - fought for women's right to vote. Source: Getty Images
Emmeline Pankhurst fought for women’s right to vote. Source: Getty Images
Emmeline Pankhurst organized the women's suffrage movement in the UK
Emmeline Pankhurst organized the women’s suffrage movement in the UK. Source: Getty Images

Success and Achievement

  • “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.” — Marie Curie
  • “Success isn’t about the end result, it’s about what you learn along the way.” — Vera Wang
  • “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
  • “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” — Coco Chanel
  • “Believe in yourself, take the leap of faith and watch the universe conspire to make your dreams a reality.” — Rumi
  • “I’m excited about the aging process. I’m more interested in women who aren’t perfect. They’re more compelling” – Actress Emma Watson
  • “I would rather be a rebel than a slave” – women’s suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst
Rosa Parks, African American Registry, peace activist and civil rights leader who made a clear path for others
Peace and civil rights leader Rosa Parks

Defying Expectations

  • “Females are the most beautiful, gorgeous creatures in the whole world. And I think that we are gorgeous no matter what size we are.” — Alicia Keys
  • “I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • “I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story – I will.” — Amy Schumer
  • “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand
  • “Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts… good relationships feel light. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful.” — Michelle Obama
Margaret Thatcher - First British female Prime Minister  Source: Wikipedia, women's history
Margaret Thatcher – First British female Prime Minister
Sandra Day O'Connor- first woman to serve as a Supreme Court Justice, source: Wikipedia
Sandra Day O’Connor- first woman to serve as a Supreme Court Justice, source: Wikipedia

Women Belong in Leadership

  • “You never have to ask anyone permission to lead. When you want to lead, you lead.” — Kamala Harris
  • “No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” — Virginia Woolf
  • “You deserve to be here. You deserve to exist. You deserve to take up space in this world of men.” — MacKenzi Lee
  • “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker
  • “When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.” — Marianne Williamson
  • “Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns more about a problem than the person at the bottom.” Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
  • If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”- First British female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
Amelia Earhart. Source: Britannica, Women's history month quotes
Aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. Source: Britannica,
Christian missionary Elisabeth Elliot had anything but a comfortable life.  She ministered to the people who killed her husband. Source: The Gospel Coaltion
Christian missionary Elisabeth Elliot
Empowering more women and lifting up women's voices with her own life - Tennis champion Serena Williams
Tennis star Serena Williams

Overcoming Adversity

  • “In my life, I had come to realize that, when things were going very well, indeed, it was just the time to anticipate trouble.” — Amelia Earhart
  • “You are not supposed to be happy all the time. Life hurts and it’s hard. Not because you’re doing it wrong, but because it hurts for everybody.” — Glennon Doyle
  • “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” — Mother Teresa
  • “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey
  • “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…” — Erin McKean
  • “Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.” – Elisabeth Elliot
  • “I’ve grown most not from victories, but setbacks”  – Serena WilliamsMalala Yousafzai source: Britannica, Women's history month quotes
Iconic women like tennis champion Naomi Osaka - source: Wikipedia
Tennis Star Naomi Osaka
Women't history month quotes - Taylor Swift has some good ones!
Singer Taylor Swift

Empowering Women Together

  • “We need to encourage girls that their voice matters. I think there are hundreds and thousands of Malalas out there.” — Malala Yousafzai
  • “When you help a woman fulfill her potential, magic happens.” — Sara Blakely
  • “Every woman’s success should be an inspiration to another. We’re strongest when we cheer each other on.” — Serena Williams
  • “I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you’re supposed to be to live a more authentic life.” — Laverne Cox
  • “Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.” — Sonia Sotomayor
  • “You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything and one day, you’ll get where you want.” – Naomi Osaka
  • “A girl should be two things, classy and fabulous.” – Coco Chanel
Source: National Women's History Musuem, Women's history month quotes
Former first lady Hillary Clinton an American politician and diplomat. She was the 67th United States Secretary of State.

Celebrating Women’s Achievements

  • “I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be.” — Diane Von Furstenberg
  • “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.” — Brené Brown
  • “Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance in the world to pursue your dreams.” — Hillary Clinton
  • “Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves.” — Betty Friedan
  • “Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Eleanor Roosevelt, Source: National Women's History Museum, Women's history month
Eleanor Roosevelt- longest serving first lady in the United States

Quotes to Celebrate Women’s History Month

  • “Feminism is for everybody.” — bell hooks
  • “Women are the real architects of society.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “The best protection any woman can have… is courage.” — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • “A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.” — Melinda Gates
Julia Child, Source: Smithsonian Magazine, women's history month
Julia Child was an American chef, author and TV personality
Shirley Chisolm, first black woman elected to Congress.  Source: Wikipedia
Shirley Chisolm, first black woman elected to Congress.

Empowerment Through Quotes

  • “Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” — Julia Child
  • “Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you.” — Viola Davis
  • “You are not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” — Audre Lorde
  • “Amazing things happen when women help other women.” — Kasia Gospos
  • “No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.” — Carrie Chapman Catt
  • “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  • “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair” – Shirley Chisolm
  • “I’ve made a ton of mistakes, but you need the messy stuff; you learn from it”. – Jennifer Lopez
Women's history month quotes

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Conclusion

As we wrap up this celebration of Women’s History Month quotes, I hope powerful words continue to inspire you.

One of my favorites is one of Taylor Swift’s quotes (I’ve got an entire post on just her quotes alone) where she says “I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.“ — Taylor Swift. Something about this makes me feel better. Even SHE has to work to become all that she wants to be. It doesn’t just happen magically. I resonate with that.

Oh and while we’re at it, see my favorite Moana quotes. Ok, okay, I know she’s not a real woman but here character says some insightful stuff so let’s roll with it.

The voices of trailblazing women remind us of how far we’ve come and how much further we can go. So, let’s keep honoring their legacies- not just this month, but all year long!

Don’t forget to check out my favorite inspiring quotes from Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior.

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