In celebration of Women’s Day here are 42 powerful reminders to the sisterhood from the sisterhood.
2. “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” ~ Diane von Furstenberg
3. “Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations can never effect a reform.” ~ Susan B. Anthony
4. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” ~ Malala Yousafzai
5. “Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” ~ Golda Meir
6. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” ~ Rosa Parks
7. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” ~ Amelia Earhart
8. “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” ~ Shonda Rhimes
10. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” ~
11. “If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don’t, you’re simply ducking your responsibilities.” ~ Ann Richards
12. “One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don’t know how to do, to keep learning.” ~ Ruth Reichl
13. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” ~
14. “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
15. “Don’t take too much credit for your children — or too much blame!” ~ Debora Spar
16. “Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
18. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” ~ Louise Hay
19. “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
20. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” ~ Coco Chanel
21. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” ~ Ayn Rand
22. “Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” ~ Mother Teresa
23. “Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
24. “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” ~ Nora Ephron
25. “Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change” ~Iyanla Vanzant
26. “A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” ~ Sonia Sotomayor
27. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” ~ Jennifer Lopez
28. “When you feel copied, remember that people can only go where you have already been, they have no idea where you are going next.” ~ Liz Lange
29. “Hold your head and your standards high even as people or circumstances try to pull you down.” ~ Tory Johnson
30. “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.” ~ Brene Brown
31. “If you’re someone people count on, particularly in difficult moments, that’s a sign of a life lived honorably.” ~ Rachel Maddow
32. “When you embrace your difference, your DNA, your look or heritage or religion or your unusual name, that’s when you start to shine.” – Bethenny Frankel
33. “If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
34. “The challenge is not to be perfect…it’s to be whole.” ~ Jane Fonda
35. “Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” ~ Anne Lamott
36. “There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.” ~ Indira Gandhi
37. “All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can’t bat a thousand all the time.” ~ Julie Andrews
38. “Cherish forever what makes you unique, cuz you’re really a yawn if it goes.” ~ Bette Midler
40. “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. ” ~ Alice Walker
41. “You will be wounded many times in your life. You’ll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God’s way of saying, “Excuse me, you’re moving in the wrong direction.” It’s just an experience, just an experience.” ~ Oprah Winfrey
42. “In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature’s way of forcing change — breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.” ~ Susan L. Taylor
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