![]() It has to come from knowing who you are, why you’re on earth, what is the meaning of your life. “That taught me that power has to come from inside. ![]() I want to do my work.” Patti Smith | 17 | Even with all the greed and stupidity and terrible things that we’re all facing and reading in the news or experiencing, I want to be alive. And if we have our freedom, we must fight for others who don’t.” Angelina Jolie | 16 | If there is a fight in this life, it must be for freedoms and rights. “Our response can’t be to shrug or to think only about our own countries, because we are all connected. “I want to be able to have fun with how I present myself in the world without feeling like I’m a bad feminist or a good feminist.” Emily Ratajkowski | 15 | We need to change that narrative.” Megan Rapinoe | 14 | Why is it? Because they’re not something to be proud of. “We know exactly what’s in a contract every time a man signs it. Any acceptance of humiliation, indignity or insult is acceptance of inferiority.” Winnie Madikizela-Mandela | 13 | Only then can we express our dignity, only when we have liberated ourselves can we co-operate with other groups. “If you are to free yourselves you must break the chains of oppression yourselves. “No matter what the fight, don't be ladylike! God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.” Mother Jones | 12 | In the meantime, love represents in its most touching form the curse that lies heavily upon woman confined in the feminine universe, woman mutilated, insufficient unto herself.” Simone de Beauvoir | 11 | On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself – on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life and not of mortal danger. “My 20s and my 30s.were a time where you had to be a loud bitch to just find some space in the room.” Charlize Theron | 10 | And that there’s a version of that for everyone.” Tracee Ellis Ross | 9 | People are like, ‘You’re the poster child for being single.’ And I was like, ‘Great.’ But what I would prefer is that I’m the poster child for living my life on my terms. “I didn’t see enough examples of different versions of how a woman can find happiness and joy and power and sensuality, sexuality, all of that, without it being through the lens of how I’m seen by a man. “People had to adjust to the uncomfortableness of me just existing, not entertaining or delivering or slaying.” Solange | 8 | “Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation.none was more alarming than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.” Barbara Ehrenreich | 7 | “I understand a woman’s need to have something for herself.” Jill Biden | 6 | ![]() “The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.” Adrienne Rich | 5 | I wish this freedom for every person.” Beyoncé | 4 | You can be curvy and still be a fashion icon. You can be both elegant and a provocateur. “I want to show that you can have fun and have purpose, be respectful and speak your mind. “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” Shirley Chisholm | 3 | “Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” Maya Angelou | 2 | To commemorate International Women's Day, we've gathered 100 empowering quotes by feminist trailblazers who have embraced the power of their womanhood-and who will inspire you to do the same. But today's influential female voices give us hope that we’re headed in the right direction. The road to true gender equality remains long and ever-shifting-particularly when it comes to all the nuanced ways gender intersects with race, class, and sexuality.
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