Women Inspiring Women: 30 of my Favorite Quotes

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!

1. "Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist: while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!" - Lori Greiner
2. 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
3. "I never dreamed about success. I worked for it." - Estee Lauder
4. "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
5. "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
6. "If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough." - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
   
7. "Just seize every opportunity you have, embrace every experience. Make a mark, for all the right reasons." - Chrissie Wellington
8. "You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness." - Diane von Furstenberg
9. "Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." - Golda Meir
10. "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart
11. "You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them." - Shonda Rhimes 
12. "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
13. "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make." - Jane Goodall
14. "A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done." - Marge Piercy
    
15. "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 
16. "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." - Coco Chanel
17. "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me." - Ayn Rand
18. "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt
19. "Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." - Nora Ephron
20. "You can be the lead in your own life." - Kerry Washington
21. "A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence." - Sonia Sotomayor
22. "Dying seems less sad than having lived too little." - Gloria Steinem
23. "It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith." - Emma Watson
24. "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
25. "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. 
26. "The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers." - Juliette Gordon Low
27. "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
28. "The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances." - Martha Washington
29. "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 
30. "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

 Love Always,

                         Kaitlyn B