International Women’s Day – May I Quote You on That?

To celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8th, I’ve compiled a few of my favorite inspirational and empowering quotes by notable women around the world:

Adventure

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“When a great adventure is offered, you don’t refuse it.”  – Amelia Earhart, Aviator

Assertiveness

“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, Poet/Activist

Beginnings

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”  – Anaïs Nin, Author

Courage

“The best protection any woman can have . . . is courage.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American Abolitionist/Women’s Rights Activist

Fear

“I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” – Georgia O’Keeffe, Artist

Food

“When I walk into my kitchen today, I am not alone. Whether we know it or not, none of us is. We bring fathers and mothers and kitchen tables, and every meal we have ever eaten. Food is never just food. It’s also a way of getting at something else: who we are, who we have been, and who we want to be.” – Molly Wizenberg, Author, Blogger

Friendship

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”  – Oprah Winfrey, OWN Network CEO, TV Show Host, Philanthropist

Happiness

‎”When one door of happiness closes another one opens, but often we look so long at the closed door we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”  – Helen Keller, Author/Activist

 

Independence

“I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.” – Susan B. Anthony, American Suffragette/Women’s Rights Advocate

Kindness

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Teresa

Love

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou

Reinvention

“It’s only too late if you don’t start now.”  – Barbara Sher, Author, Career/Life Coach

Stillness

“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.” – Indira Gandhi, First Female Prime Minister of India

Travel

“Nightingale saw chaos in Egypt; Flaubert saw harmony. Nightingale saw the misery of life; Flaubert saw the glory. Both saw clearly, and both were looking at the same thing. In the end, they saw what they needed to see.” –  Rosemary Mahoney, Author, Down the Nile

“I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. I’m a fearless eater. But my one mighty travel talent is that I can make friends with anybody.”  –  Elizabeth Gilbert, Author, Eat, Pray, Love

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou

Women Power

“I think the key is for women not to set any limits.”  – Martina Navratilova, Tennis Pro

Work

“Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.” – Helena Rubenstein, Polish-Born Cosmetics Entrepreneur

Writing

“So much of good writing is Feng Shui – moving the furniture so the energy can flow.”  –   Lauren VanMullem, Writer, Former Wanderlust and Lipstick Blogger

Wander on!

Nancy

What about you, wanderboomers? What’s your favorite empowering/inspiring quote for women by women? Please share with us here.