Women In History Quotes

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

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

Despite the modern dogma to the effect that women were a subject sex until the nineteenth century ’emancipated’ them from history, women in history had demonstrated strong wills and purposes, had made assertions, and had directed or influenced all human destiny, including their own, since human life began.

What we are is God’s gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.

Toughness doesn’t have to come in a pinstripe suit.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

If society will not admit of woman’s free development, then society must be remodeled.

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.

The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!

A charming woman… doesn’t follow the crowd. She is herself.

Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.