“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” — Charlotte Bronte · Jane Eyre, 1847
“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.” — Charlotte Whitton
“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” — Oprah Winfrey
“The question isn't who's going to let me; it's who's going to stop me.” — Ayn Rand · The Fountainhead, 1943
“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.” — Mary Wollstonecraft · A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792