Top 90 Strong Women Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.”

— Helen Reddy

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Music Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Empowerment Quotes

2. “Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Impact Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women

3. “Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn’t need a man; be that girl who never backed down.”

— Taylor Swift

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Confidence Quotes, Self-Love Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women

4. “I am woman, hear me roar.”

— Helen Reddy

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Boldness Quotes, Culture Quotes

5. “I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women

6. “I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”

— Venus Williams

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Courage Quotes, Focus Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women

7. “Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Care Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Empathy Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

8. “Well-behaved women seldom make history.”

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Empowerment Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Smart Quotes

9. “When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

— Audre Lorde

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Meaningful Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Empowerment Quotes

10. “Your silence will not protect you.”

— Audre Lorde

Also featured in: Commitment Quotes, Resistance Quotes, Healing Quotes, Silence Quotes

11. “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

— Audre Lorde

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Women, Freedom Quotes, Different Quotes

12. “I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.”

— Frida Kahlo

Also featured in: Identity Quotes, Artist Quotes, Individuality Quotes, Creative Quotes

13. “You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I’ll rise.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Poetry Quotes, Obstacles Quotes

14. “I am stronger than fear.”

— Malala Yousafzai

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Inspirational Quotes for Women, Mental Strength Quotes, Overcoming Fear Quotes

15. “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”

— Malala Yousafzai

16. “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”

— Gloria Steinem

Also featured in: Hilarious Quotes

17. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.”

— Malala Yousafzai

18. “Don’t follow the path. Go where there is no path and begin the trail. When you start a new trail equipped with courage, strength and conviction, the only thing that can stop you is you!”

— Ruby Bridges

Also featured in: New Beginnings Quotes, Willpower Quotes

19. “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

20. “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.”

— Muriel Rukeyser

21. “Some people don’t like you just because your strength reminds them of their weakness. Don’t let the hate slow you down.”

— Thema Davis

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Mental Strength Quotes

22. “Poor is the man whose pleasure depends on the permission of another.”

— Madonna

Also featured in: Individuality Quotes

23. “I wasn't lucky, I deserved it.”

— Margaret Thatcher

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

24. “Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.”

— Lady Gaga

Also featured in: Purpose Quotes, Artist Quotes, Individuality Quotes

25. “Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Deep Quotes

26. “I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.”

— Nina Simone

Also featured in: Freedom Quotes, Fear Quotes

27. “O, when she’s angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce.”

— William Shakespeare

28. “Every woman is a rebel.”

— Oscar Wilde

29. “The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.”

— Maureen Dowd

Also featured in: Self-Love Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Expectations Quotes

30. “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”

— June Jordan

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Quotes About Hope

31. “And then I am going to rattle the stars.”

— Sarah J. Maas

Also featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Epic Quotes

32. “In this life, you have to be your own hero.”

— Jeanette Winterson

Also featured in: Self-Love Quotes

33. “I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes, Quotes About Heart, Love Is Quotes, Romantic Quotes

34. “You do not fear... You do not falter. You do not yield.”

— Sarah J. Maas

Also featured in: Warrior Quotes

35. “Hard days are the best because that’s when champions are made.”

— Gabby Douglas

Also featured in: Grit Quotes, Workout Quotes

36. “Every great dream begins with a dreamer.”

— Harriet Tubman

Also featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, Influence Quotes

37. “You are your best thing.”

— Toni Morrison

Also featured in: Self-Worth Quotes, Self-Care Quotes, Love Yourself Quotes

38. “I would rather be a rebel than a slave.”

— Emmeline Pankhurst

Also featured in: Resistance Quotes, Quotes on Liberty

39. “I don’t think you should wait. I think you should speak now.”

— Taylor Swift

Also featured in: Boldness Quotes, Decision-Making Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes, Romantic Quotes

40. “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”

— Audre Lorde

Also featured in: Boldness Quotes

41. “She was Aelin Ashryver Galathynius- and she would not be afraid.”

— Sarah J. Maas

Also featured in: Boldness Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes, Warrior Quotes, Epic Quotes

42. “You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Grateful Quotes

43. “I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.”

— Kamala Harris

44. “I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.”

— Calamity Jane

Also featured in: Boldness Quotes

45. “Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.”

— Taylor Swift

Also featured in: Boldness Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Rejection Quotes

46. “And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long.”

— Mary Church Terrell

47. “It’s not about finding your voice, it’s about giving yourself permission to use your voice.”

— Kris Carr

48. “Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Mental Strength Quotes

49. “I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.”

— Sojourner Truth

Also featured in: Truth Quotes

50. “You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”

— Isadora Duncan

Also featured in: Boldness Quotes