30 Powerful Women's Equality Day Quotes

If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

Feminism isn't about making women stronger. Women are already strong, it's about changing the way the world perceives that strength.

I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

Of course, I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

It's important to teach our female youth that it's OK to say, 'Yes, I am good at this,' and you don't hold back.

Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. … It shouldn't be that women are the exception.

Feminism is for everybody.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

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Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

Some leaders are born women.

Women are the real architects of society.

We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fears; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

There's something so special about a woman who dominates in a man's world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness and the nerve to never take no for an answer.

For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious — or whatever we please. We are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

I think transwomen, and transpeople in general, show everyone that you can define what it means to be a man or woman on your own terms. A lot of what feminism is about is moving outside of roles and moving outside of expectations of who and what you're supposed to be to live a more authentic life.

Women are leaders everywhere you look — from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women, and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.