March 8, 2019
To celebrate International Women's Day we've put together a list of our 10 favorite quotes from inspirational women who motivate us and others to rise up for those around them! Here they are:
“Those of us who are warm and dry and safe and well-fed must show up for those who are cold and wet and endangered and hungry. That's a rule of life. Every ethical and religious and spiritual tradition in the world agrees on that rule.” - Elizabeth Gilbert
"I want to apologize to all the women I have called beautiful before I’ve called them intelligent or brave. I am sorry I made it sound as though something as simple as what you’re born with is all you have to be proud of when you have broken mountains with your wit. From now on I will say things like you are resilient, or you are extraordinary not because I don’t think you’re beautiful but because I need you to know you are more than that." - Rupi Kaur
"I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet." - Isabel Allende
"They keep saying that beautiful is something a girl needs to be. But honestly? Forget that. Don’t be beautiful. Be angry, be intelligent, be witty, be klutzy, be interesting, be funny, be adventurous, be crazy, be talented. There are an eternity of other things to be other than beautiful. be your own definition of amazing, always. That is so much more important than anything beautiful, ever.” - Nikita Gill
“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” - Jane Gooddall
"Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I'm well aware of, but that's just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history—empowering women to be able to stand up for themselves." - Hillary Clinton
“With each generation, women’s ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn’t mean everything is perfect or that our work is finished.” - Cathy McMorris Rodgers
"We are always going to have prejudices … I don’t think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself." - Esmeralda Santiago
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained." - Marie Curie
"Sí se puede!” (“Yes we can!”) - Dolores Huerta
