Unforgettable Words: Quotes by 100 Revolutionary Women in History!

Throughout history there has been a few Influential people, in this post you we bring you 100 quotes from the best women in history

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1. Cleopatra (69 BCE – 30 BCE): “I will not be triumphed over.”

2. Joan of Arc (1412 – 1431): “I am not afraid… I was born to do this.”

3. Queen Elizabeth I (1533 – 1603): “I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.”

4. Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910): “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.”

5. Susan B. Anthony (1820 – 1906): “I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.”

6. Marie Curie (1867 – 1934): “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”

7. Amelia Earhart (1897 – disappeared 1937): “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”

8. Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005): “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.”

9. Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997): “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”

10. Malala Yousafzai (born 1997): “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”

11. Jane Austen (1775 – 1817): “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures.”

12. Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941): “For most of history, anonymous was a woman.”

13. Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954): “I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”

14. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962): “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

15. Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014): “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

16. Margaret Thatcher (1925 – 2013): “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”

17. Indira Gandhi (1917 – 1984): “You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and be vibrantly alive in repose.”

18. Oprah Winfrey (born 1954): “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

19. Angela Merkel (born 1954): “We all have to live with ourselves, so we should try to be as good a person as we can be.”

20. Kamala Harris (born 1964): “While I may be the first woman in this office, I will not be the last, because every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.”

21. Harriet Tubman (c. 1822 – 1913): “I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.”

22. Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 – 1883): “If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again!”

23. Coco Chanel (1883 – 1971): “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

Rosa Luxemburg (1871 – 1919): “Freedom is always the freedom of the dissenter.”

25. Simone de Beauvoir (1908 – 1986): “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”

26. Margaret Atwood (born 1939): “In the end, we’ll all become stories.”

27. Wangari Maathai (1940 – 2011): “You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.”

28. Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933 – 2020): “Women belong in all places where decisions are being made… It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.”

29. Angela Davis (born 1944): “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”

30. Greta Thunberg (born 2003): “The one thing we need more than hope is action. Once we start to act, hope is everywhere.”

31. Marie Antoinette (1755 – 1793): “Let them eat cake.”

32. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 – 1896): “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

33. Helen Keller (1880 – 1968): “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”

34. Aung San Suu Kyi (born 1945): “Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.”

35. Angela Merkel (born 1954): “We will not allow ourselves to be divided along ethnic, religious, or any other lines.”

36. Michelle Obama (born 1964): “Success isn’t about how much money you make; it’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.”

37. Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933 – 2020): “Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.”

38. Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852): “That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.”

39. Malala Yousafzai (born 1997): “One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.”

40. Kamala Harris (born 1964): “Every little girl watching tonight sees that this is a country of possibilities.”

41. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 – 1797): “I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.”

42. Coco Chanel (1883 – 1971): “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”

43. Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014): “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”

44. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962): “Do one thing every day that scares you.”

45. Indira Gandhi (1917 – 1984): “Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”

46. Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005): “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.”

47. Anne Frank (1929 – 1945): “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

48. Oprah Winfrey (born 1954): “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”

50. Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852): “The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.”

51. Jane Austen (1775 – 1817): “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.”

52. Angela Davis (born 1944): “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”

53. Rigoberta Menchú Tum (born 1959): “We have to have the courage to confront the worst in ourselves as well as in others.”

54. Marie Curie (1867 – 1934): “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.”

55. Sojourner Truth (c. 1797 – 1883): “If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.”

56. Angela Merkel (born 1954): “We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of left or right, it’s a matter of common humanity.”

57. Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992): “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

58. Mary Jackson (1921 – 2005): “The greatest scientific minds are those that never lose their sense of curiosity.”

59. Serena Williams (born 1981): “I’ve always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there’s only a slightest chance.”

60. Wangari Maathai (1940 – 2011): “In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness.”

61. Rosa Luxemburg (1871 – 1919): “Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.”

62. Toni Morrison (1931 – 2019): “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”

63. Dorothy Hodgkin (1910 – 1994): “Science is a profoundly human endeavour. The stories of triumph and success in science

64. Billie Jean King (born 1943): “Champions keep playing until they get it right.”

65. J.K. Rowling (born 1965): “It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

66. Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954): “Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”

67. Dorothy Day (1897 – 1980): “The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart?”

68. Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992): “I am my best work – a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.”

69. Grace Hopper (1906 – 1992): “A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.”

70. Madeleine Albright (born 1937): “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.”

71. Hedy Lamarr (1914 – 2000): “I was born intelligent. Education ruined me.”

72. Sheryl Sandberg (born 1969): “Leadership is not bullying and aggression. It is the stewardship of the team’s resources and values.”

73. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (born 1938): “If your dreams don’t scare you, they are not big enough.”

74. Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933 – 2020): “Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.”

75. Angela Davis (born 1944): “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”

76. Marie Curie (1867 – 1934): “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.”

77. Indira Gandhi (1917 – 1984): “The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”

78. Temple Grandin (born 1947): “I am different, not less.”

79. Aung San Suu Kyi (born 1945): “Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.”

80. Oprah Winfrey (born 1954): “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.”

81. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977): “Culture does not make people. People make culture.”

82. Malala Yousafzai (born 1997): “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”

83. Helen Keller (1880 – 1968): “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

84. Jane Goodall (born 1934): “The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.”

85. Wangari Maathai (1940 – 2011): “You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that they must protect them.”

86. Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992): “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

87. Angela Merkel (born 1954): “We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of left or right, it’s a matter of common humanity.”

88. Mary Jackson (1921 – 2005): “The greatest scientific minds are those that never lose their sense of curiosity.”

89. Serena Williams (born 1981): “I’ve always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there’s only a slightest chance.”

90. Wangari Maathai (1940 – 2011): “In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness.”

91. Rosa Luxemburg (1871 – 1919): “Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.”

92. Toni Morrison (1931 – 2019): “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.”

93. Dorothy Hodgkin (1910 – 1994): “Science is a profoundly human endeavour. The stories of triumph and success in science

94. Marie Curie (1867 – 1934): “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”

95. Angela Davis (born 1944): “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”

96. Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005): “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free… so other people would be also free.”

97. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 1977): “Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.”

98. Billie Jean King (born 1943): “Champions keep playing until they get it right.”

99. Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954): “Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”

100. Helen Keller (1880 – 1968): “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”

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