20 Quotes for Women’s Empowerment

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Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
Michelle Obama

Let me fall if I must fall. The one I become will catch me.
Sheryl Sandberg

Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
Sheryl Sandberg

All too often, it is audacity and not talent that moves an artist to center stage.
Julia Cameron

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin

The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Seneca

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Maya Angelou

Failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result. It’s vulnerability that breeds with self-doubt and then is escalated, often deliberately, by fear.
Michelle Obama

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
Frida Kahlo

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True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake; it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.
Brianna Wiest

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.
J.K. Rowling

We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.
Malala Yousafzai

No one else, no one else, Can speak the words on your lips, Drench yourself in words unspoken, Live your life with arms wide open, Today is where your book begins, The rest is still unwritten.
Natasha Bedingfield

The universe buries strange jewels deep within us all, and then stands back to see if we can find them.
Elizabeth Gilbert

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia Earhart

True belonging doesn’t require you to change who you are; it requires you to be who you are.
Brené Brown

Be the weirdo who dares to enjoy.
Elizabeth Gilbert

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker

When we deny our emotion, it owns us. When we own our emotion, we can rebuild and find our way through the pain.
Brené Brown