29 Quotes For Women's History Month 2019 To Lift You Up

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Since 1987, March has been recognized as Women’s History Month. Originally initiated by Congress in 1981, the first Women’s History Week was celebrated in 1982. But because one week is hardly enough, by the time 1987 rolled around we got a full month. A full month in which we don't just recognize, but celebrate the women who came before us, the women we are today, and the generations of women to follow. While we may not have the equality we rightly deserve yet, women still have come a very long way — and it wasn’t easy.

So what does one do during Women’s History Month? Lots of things. You can donate to charities that advocate for reproductive rights. You can educate yourself on the history of equal suffrage. You can pay homage to your heroes. You can read books written by women and femmes, watch movies made by and about women, and tell the women in your life just how much they mean to you and how much you appreciate them.

But to get you ready and rearing to go for Women’s History Month, let’s start off with some words of wisdom. Here are 29 quotes from some phenomenal women that will lift you up doing this important month.


1. "I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading." — Amy Poehler

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2. "Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women." — Maya Angelou
3. "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any." — Alice Walker
4. "I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, OK." — Madonna
5. "Find out who you are and do it on purpose." — Dolly Parton
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6. "Without justice there can be no love." — bell hooks
7. "I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own." — Audre Lorde
8. "Some people ask: 'Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?' Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general — but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women." — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
9. "Women and girls can do whatever they want. There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish." — Michelle Obama
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10. "I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives." — Jane Austen
11. "A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman." — Melinda Gates
12. "I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself." — Simone de Beauvoir
13. "No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her own own body." — Margaret Sanger
14. "We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back." — Malala Yousafzai
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15. "It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself." 
― Betty Friedan
16. "It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent." ― Madeleine Albright
17. "If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation." 
― Abigail Adams
18. "Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power." 
― Gloria Steinem
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19. "If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they do not read them in a true light: they misapprehend them, both for good and evil: their good woman is a queer thing, half doll, half angel; their bad woman almost always a fiend." 
― Charlotte Brontë
20. "My mother did not raise me to ask for permission to lead." ― Ayanna Pressley
21. "The kindest words/my father said to me/women like you/drown oceans." ― Rupi Kaur
22. "Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it." — Tina Fey
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23. "A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim." ― Maya Angelou
24. "Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that you will choose to make some of that trouble on behalf of women." — Nora Ephron
25. "For most of history, Anonymous was a woman." — Virginia Woolf
26. "I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story — I will." — Amy Schumer
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27. "I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass." — Maya Angelou
28. "I hate men who are afraid of women's strength." — Anaïs Nin
29. "It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can’t." — Carol K. Carr



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