Believe Equality Identity Independence Power Strong WomenA woman should be taught to believe in protecting herself on her own and not to depend on a man for her protection. She has the power to protect the world and not just herself.
Beauty Equality Identity Love Motherhood RelationshipYou 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.’
Believe Empowerment Equality Identity Power Strong WomenWhether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I’m well aware of, but that’s just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history—empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves. — Hillary Clinton
Equality Strong WomenWomen belong in all places where decisions are being made. … It shouldn’t be that women are the exception. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Equality Identity Strong WomenWhen a man gives his opinion, he’s a man; when a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch. — Bette Davis
Believe Equality Identity Strong WomenWomen, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe you must become its soul. — Coretta Scott King
Equality Identity Strong WomenI hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days. — Jane Austen
Equality Love Strong WomenA lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
Equality Strong WomenI will have my voice: indian, spanish, white. I will have my serpent’s tongue, my woman’s voice, my sexual voice, my poet’s voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence. — Gloria E. Anzaldúa