Here is a list of quotes to help to inspire you, or the women in your life, to live more fully.
1. If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” – Katharine Hepburn
2. “Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” – Timothy Leary
3. “A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that doesn’t mean she still can’t have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.” – Cher
4. There are no good girls gone wrong – just bad girls found out.” – Mae West
5. Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
6. “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” – Roseanne Barr
7. “Figure out who you are separate from your family, and the man or woman you’re in a relationship with. 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 because with that, you can do anything else.” – Angelina Jolie, Cosmopolitan Magazine
8. The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
9. If a woman can only succeed by emulating men, I think it is a great loss and not a success. The aim is not only for a woman to succeed, but to keep her womanhood and let her womanhood influence society.” – Suzanne Brogger
10. “Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.” – Gloria Steinem
11. “Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay, I make the goddamn rules.” – Maria Callas
12. “When a woman is assertive and adamant about what she wants, she’s totally branded a ‘bitch,’ ‘difficult,’ ‘hard to work with,’ or whatever the case may be. You know what? I’ll take it. Call me a bitch, call me whatever, it doesn’t matter. What it all boils down to is when the day is over, I’m still walking away with what it is that I came in there to get.” – Kelis
13. “To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.” – Marilyn French
14. “Women have to harness their power – it’s absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take the first no. And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.” – Cher
15. Well-behaved women rarely make history.” – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
16. “If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn’t be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt…retire?” – Maria Callas
17. “Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.” – Barbara De Angelis
18. “I’m a woman / Phenomenally. / Phenomenal woman, / That’s me.” – Maya Angelou, poet
19. “I hate to sound prudish but women are so raucous now. The laughter is loud; the talking is loud. Brashness is not madly attractive – swearing a lot, using the F word all the time. It is an affectation, unimaginative, and you need to develop your brain. Underneath, there is probably a lovely little person who could express herself imaginatively and be a touching, interesting, feminine creature.” – Jacqueline Bisset, Allure Magazine
20. “A woman serves a man best when she has her joy above all other values.” – Dr. Victor Baranco
