Here are some powerful quotes by and about women.

Powerful Women Quotes

1. “I am no bird, and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
— Charlotte Brontë

2. “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
— Ayn Rand

3. “I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”
— Mary Shelley

4. “Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

5. “A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.”
— Melinda Gates

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

7. “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
— Coco Chanel

8. “You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.”
— Shirley Chisholm

9. “Women are the real architects of society.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

10. “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
— Louisa May Alcott

11. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
— Alice Walker

12. “I know what I bring to the table. So, trust me when I say, I’m not afraid to eat alone.”
— Unknown

13. “I am a Woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal Woman,
that’s me.”
— Maya Angelou

14. “A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink.”
— Gina Carey

15. “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”
— Audre Lorde