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649 quotes on wisdom and truth — from the classics to the everyday.
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“Women are the real architects of society.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”
Mary Wollstonecraft · A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792
“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.”
Maya Angelou
“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”
Margaret Thatcher · 1965 speech
“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
“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich · 1976 article on Puritan funeral sermons
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
Alice Walker
“I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”
Audre Lorde · 1981 speech
“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”
Maya Angelou
“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.”
Buddha · The Dhammapada
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne · The Scarlet Letter, 1850
“Don't take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality.”
Don Miguel Ruiz · The Four Agreements, 1997
