I've just started watching an INCREDIBLE show on Amazon called Good Girls Revolt, and it is - in a word - inspiring. It is a show based on women rising above the "women are not meant to be bosses" norm in the late 60's - early 70's. This show is an excellent example of just how far women have come; using historic figures like Nora Ephron, and a monumental legal case that changed the course of history, how can a woman not LOVE this series?
When you watch, even just one episode, you feel like you need to go out and do something amazing because those women did. So, as a lover of quotes and inspirational memes, I have compiled a series of quotes by women, inspiring women. I hope that they will inspire you as much as they have inspired me!
- "Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist: while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!" - Lori Greiner
- Whatever it is that you think you want to do, and whatever it is that you think stands between you and that, stop making excuses. You can do anything." - Katia Beauchamp
- "I never dreamed about success. I worked for it." - Estee Lauder
- "Making the decision to not follow a system, or someone else's rules has allowed me to really dig into what my own strengths and gifts are without spending time feeling jaded or wasteful." - Ishita Gupta
- "Success as a woman has changed me. That's what I feel is the first thing. When I feel like a successful woman as a rounded human being, then it feeds my work in a broader way so it becomes more interesting." - Jacqueline Bisset
- "If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough." - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- "Just seize every opportunity you have, embrace every experience. Make a mark, for all the right reasons." - Chrissie Wellington
- "You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness." - Diane von Furstenberg
- "Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." - Golda Meir
- "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart
- "You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them." - Shonda Rhimes
- "It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent." - Madeleine Albright
- "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Jane Goodall
- "A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done." - Marge Piercy
- "Drama is very important in life: you have to come on with a bang. You never want to go out with a whimper." - Julia Child
- "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." - Coco Chanel
- "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand
- "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt
- "Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." - Nora Ephron
- "You can be the lead in your own life." - Kerry Washington
- "A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence." - Sonia Sotomayor
- "Dying seems less sad than having lived too little." - Gloria Steinem
- "It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith." - Emma Watson
- "If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission" - Grace Hopper
- "There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it, for if I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard." - Madame C.J. Walker.
- "The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers." - Juliette Gordon Low
- "As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might." - Marian Anderson
- "The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances." - Martha Washington
- "Just watch, all of you men. I'll show you what a woman can do...I'll go across the country, I'll race to the moon...I'll never look back." - Edna Gardner Whyte
- "Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it...all the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words." - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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