Empowering Female Quotes

By Christopher Ebuka

13 March 2018 | 5:00 pm

March is International women's month and in that cue, we have lined up quotes from Malala Yousafzai to Hillary Clinton, Emma Watson to Helen Mirren - here are some of the most inspiring feminist quotes of all time. Rebecca West “I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only…

March is International women’s month and in that cue, we have lined up quotes from Malala Yousafzai to Hillary Clinton, Emma Watson to Helen Mirren – here are some of the most inspiring feminist quotes of all time.

Rebecca West
“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.”

Hillary Clinton
“Human rights are women’s rights, and women’s rights are human rights. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely – and the right to be heard.”

Maya Angelou
“I’m a feminist. I’ve been a female for a long time now. It’d be stupid not to be on my own side.”

Emma Watson
“It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals. We should stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are.”

Emmeline Pankhurst
“We have to free half of the human race, the women so that they can help to free the other half.”

Michelle Obama
“No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens.”

Malala Yousafzai
“I raise up my voice – not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard. We cannot succeed when half of us are held back.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”

Helen Mirren
“I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say, ‘Is this a world you want to live in?’, they would say ‘No.’”

Angelina Jolie
“Women are still treated as secondary issues. It is still far too easy and accepted for leaders to ignore uncomfortable truths. Women, we know, are the first to be affected by war, and the last to be taken into account when it ends.”

Gloria Steinem
“The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example. If they see their mothers and other women in their lives going forward despite fear, they’ll know it’s possible.”

Caitlin Moran
“Do you have a vagina? And do you want to be in charge of it? If you said ‘yes’ to both, then congratulations – you’re a feminist!”