Supporting and celebrating women’s rights is a year-round responsibility. but in International Women’s Day (IWD), which is March 8, 2022 of this year, it is even more important to stand up for women’s equality.
If you are not familiar with it, International Women’s Day began at the beginning of the 20th century. and it is “a global day that celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action to accelerate women’s equality,” according to the official. International Women’s Day website.
To help you get the word out and capture the spirit of IWD on March 8, please read and share (using your hashtags, #IWD2022 and #EachforEqual) this list of 100 International Women’s Day quotes.
100 phrases of International Women’s Day
“For strong women: that we know them. Let us be them Let us raise them.” -Unknown
“Telling a woman everything she can’t do is telling her what she can.” –Spanish proverb
“Well-behaved women rarely make history.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
“A charming woman does not follow the crowd; she is herself.” –Loretta Young
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“The best protection a woman can have is courage.” –Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“Where there is a woman, there is magic.” –Ntozake Shange
“They gave you this life because you are strong enough to live it.” -Unknown
“Women are the world’s largest untapped talent pool.” -Hillary Clinton
“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.” -Coco Chanel
“She wasn’t looking for a gentleman. She was looking for a sword. -Penthouse
“There’s nothing a man can do that I can’t do better and in heels.” –Ginger Rogers
“Above all, be the hero of your life. Not the victim. –Nora Ephron
“Girls should never be afraid of being smart.” –Emma Watson
“Life is hard, dear, but so are you.” –Stephanie Bennett-Henry
“A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and winks.” –Gina Carey
“Your life is not your own if you constantly worry about what other people think.” -Unknown
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“If you have a dream, make it a goal.” -Unknown
“Sometimes it is the princess who kills the continue and save the prince.” –Samuel Lowe
“Girls with dreams become women with vision.” -Unknown.
“If you obey all the rules, you miss out on all the fun.” –Katherine Hepburn
“She thought she could so she did.” -Unknown
“We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced.” -Malala Yousafzai
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” –Margaret Fuller
“Sometimes you need eggs to be a woman.” -Unknown
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“A successful woman is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks that others have thrown at her.” -Unknown
“If you want to be told something, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher
“A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the quest to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.” –Melinda Gates
“We all have a ‘Wonder Woman’ inside of us.” -Unknown
“I can and I will. Look at me.” –Carrie Green
“There is no force more powerful than a woman determined to rise up.” –WEB Dubois
“The most beautiful thing a woman can wear is confidence.” -Blake Lively
“A man has to do what a man has to do. A woman must do what he cannot”. –Rhonda Hansome
“I want every girl to know that her voice can change the world.” –Malala
“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” –maya angelou
“Women are strong as hell.” –The unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
“True queens fix their crowns.” -Unknown
“There is no limit to what we as women can achieve.” –Michelle Obama
“There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.” –Hannah Gadsby
“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.” –Gloria Steinem
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“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
“There’s something about a woman with a loud mind who sits quietly, smiling, knowing she can crush you with the truth.” –RG Moon
“A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everyone else.” -Unknown
“Feminism is not about empowering women. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that force.” –GD Anderson
“You can always tell who the strong women are. They’re the ones you see building each other up instead of tearing each other down.” -Unknown
“She overcame everything that was meant to destroy her.” –Rumi
“The question is not who is going to leave me; is who is going to Stop me.” –AynRand
“Some women fear fire. Some women just become that.” –RH Sin
“Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress. –Kiera Cass
“I’m tough, I’m ambitious and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, that’s fine.” -Virgin
“It’s okay if you fall and lose your spark. Just make sure when you get up, you get up like all the fucking fire.” –Colette Werden
“A woman is like a tea bag: you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
“What is the biggest lesson a woman has to learn? That she from the first day she already has everything she needs within herself. It is the world that convinced her that she did not do it. –Rupi Kaur
“Women should try to do things like men have tried. When they fail, their failure should be no more than a challenge to others.” -Amelia Earhart
“A woman should be like a single flower, not like a whole bouquet.” –Anna Held
“I know what I’m bringing to the table…so trust me when I say I’m not afraid to eat alone.” -Unknown
“Strong back. smooth front. Wild Heart. Just be you.” –Brene Brown
“Be the woman you needed as a child.” -Unknown
“And one day she discovered that she was fierce and strong and full of fire, and that even she couldn’t contain herself, because her passion burned hotter than her fears.” -Mark Anthony
“She remembered who she was and the game changed.” –Lalah Deliah
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“Her soul is fierce, her heart is brave, her mind is strong.” -Unknown
“The strongest action for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine among those who never believed she could.” -Unknown
“She is everything; even when treated like nothing.” –RH Sin
“A strong woman can also be vulnerable. Just because there is a chink in your armor, don’t doubt your strength for a moment.” -Unknown
“Never bow your head. Always keep it up. Look the world square in the face.” -Unknown
“I’m proud of the woman I am today because I went through some incredible times to become her.” -Unknown
“She’s a strong cup of black coffee in a world that gets drunk on the cheap wine of superficial love.” -Unknown
“Throw me to the wolves and I’ll come back leading the pack.”
“Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means that you were stronger than anything that tried to harm you. -Unknown
“I hope that the woman is the last thing civilized by man.” –George Meredith
“I believe in being strong when everything seems to go wrong. I think the happy girls are the most beautiful girls. I believe that tomorrow will be another day and I believe in miracles.” -Audrey Hepburn
“Don’t stop until you’re proud.” -Unknown
“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid of failure. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” -Oprah Winfrey
“Women are the true architects of society.” –Cher
“A woman’s age means nothing. The best melodies are played on the oldest violins. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Women are made to be loved, not understood.” -Oscar Wilde
“In our society, the women who break barriers are those who ignore limits” –Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Women hold up half the sky.” -Mao Zedong
“How bad it is that a woman expects the man to build the world she wants instead of creating it herself.” –Anaïs Nin
“She’s a beautiful mess of chaos, and you can see it in her eyes.” -Unknown
“I don’t want women to have power over men, but over themselves.” -Mary Shelley
“What we women should do, instead of worrying about what we don’t have, is simply loving what we have.” -Cameron Diaz
“The value of women has been under-recognized for far too long.” –Sidney Sheldon
“After all those years as a woman hearing, ‘not skinny enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not skinny enough, not skinny enough,’ almost overnight I woke up a morning and thought: ‘I am enough'”. –Anna Quindlen
“Women are amazing together in groups. Frightening. Men have nothing against them.” –Michael Hutchence
“They can’t break you because you are a diamond, harder than nails and a jewel in the rough.” -Unknown
“You don’t have to play masculine to be a strong woman.” –Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“You’re a woman; that’s your superpower.” -Unknown
“Stop waiting to find the light at the end of the tunnel and be the light for yourself.” -Unknown
“Know what it’s worth, and then add tax to that amount.” -Unknown
“She promised herself better things, so she went after those things and never looked back.” -Unknown
“She is strong, but not in the way that most people think. She loves more than she’ll ever get back and she knows it but she loves anyway.” –JM Storm
“She was a savage. She was always stomping on eggshells that everyone else was tiptoeing over.” –Kaitlin Foster
“Yes, she knows pain, but she is strong. Her heart knows no other way. –Asher AR
“The world needs strong women who lift and build others. Who will love and be loved. Women who live bravely, tender and fierce; women of indomitable will.” –Amy Tenney
“She is a badass with a good heart. She soft but strong. Unapologetically and honest. She’s the kind of woman you go to war with; the kind of woman you marry. –RH Sin
“She looked back on her life and realized that everything that happened only made her stronger.” -Unknown
“He wore his scars as his best outfit. A dazzling dress made from hellfire.” -Daniel San
“Never ever mistake his silence for weakness. Remember that sometimes the air stops before the start of a hurricane. -Unknown
“She was a real fighter; she could be seen in her eyes. She wasn’t born strong, she was made strong. She was sculpted to be his when the world let her down and she kept coming back.” -Unknown
100. “Some days, she has no idea how she’s going to do it. But every day, she still gets done.” -Unknown
101. “She’s been through hell, so believe me when I tell you, fear her when she looks into the fire and smiles.” -ME. Crown
102. “She never seemed broken to me; she was an impressive mosaic of battles that she won”. –Matt Baker
103. “When women support each other, amazing things happen.” -Unknown
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