“The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me.”
Ayn Rand · The Fountainhead, 1943
191 quotes on inspiration and encouragement — from the classics to the everyday.
“The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me.”
Ayn Rand · The Fountainhead, 1943
“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.”
Melinda Gates · The Moment of Lift, 2019
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.”
Michelle Obama · 2016 Democratic National Convention
“We should all be feminists.”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2012 TEDxEuston talk, later a 2014 book
“I raise up my voice not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.”
Malala Yousafzai
“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”
Maya Angelou
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
T. S. Eliot
“I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”
The Cheshire Cat · Popularly attributed to the Cheshire Cat, not in Carroll's original text
“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
The White Queen · Through the Looking-Glass, 1871
“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
Aristotle
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Pablo Picasso
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
George Eliot
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
Theodore Roosevelt