Top 50+ Inspirational International Women's Day Quotes & Messages

Even while we love to honor all women in our lives 365 days a year, including our grandmothers, mothers, sisters, aunts, daughters, and friends, we always put in a little more effort on International Women's Day.

This international celebration honors the amazing achievements of women, spreads awareness, and motivates people to support gender equality.

Having said that, we've selected the greatest, must-read quotations to motivate you on this International Women's Day.

So go through, take a screenshot, and send the best International Women's Day quotes to others who need them.

Some inspirational Women's Day quotes

Inspirational International Women's Day Quotes

• "Every woman's success should be an inspiration to another. We're strongest when we cheer each other on." —Serena Williams

• "How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants rather than to create it herself." —Anais Nin

• "Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others." —Amelia Earhart

• "Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength." —G.D. Anderson

• "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." —Nancy Pelosi

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

• "My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent." —Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• "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." —Rihanna

• "A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts." —Nancy Rathburn

• "The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you’re very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble." —Serena Williams

• "…this International Women’s Day, allow me to share what I’ve learned. You don’t need to be ‘one of the guys.’ You are strong, brave, and destined to lead. Own it." —Tammy Duckworth

• "After all those years as a woman hearing, ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not thin enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I am enough.’" —Anna Quindlen 

• "At some point in a woman’s life, she just gets tired of being ashamed all the time. After that, she is free to become whoever she truly is." —Elizabeth Gilbert

• "In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders." —Sheryl Sandberg

• "No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half of its citizens." —Michelle Obama

• "Women make up more than half of the world’s population and potential, so it is neither just nor practical for their voices, for our voices, to go unheard at the highest levels of decision-making." —Meghan Markle

• "My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent." —Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• "Women are like teabags. We don’t know our true strength until we are in hot water." —Eleanor Roosevelt

• "Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception." —Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• "Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength." —G.D. Anderson

• "How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants rather than to create it herself." —Anais Nin

• "The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles." —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Funny International Women's Day Quotes

Funny quotes for International Women's Day

• "Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult." —Charlotte Whitton

• "Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry." —Gloria Steinem

• "Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress." —Kiera Cass

• "If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman." —Margaret Thatcher

• "A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink." —Gina Carey

• "A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t." —Rhonda Hansome

• "Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." —Marilyn Monroe

• "If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair." —Shirley Chisholm

• "Be free, be fierce, but most of all, have fun while being a feminist." —Nimco Ali

• "There’s nothing a man can do that I can’t do better and in heels." —Ginger Rogers

• "I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce." —Margaret Mead

• "I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself." —Emma Stone

• "I am a feminist. I’ve been a female for a long time now. It’d be stupid not to be on my own side." —Maya Angelou

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Powerful quotes for women's day

• "The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence." —Beyoncé Knowles

• "I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves." —Mary Shelley

• "Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you." —Viola Davis

• "The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me." —Ayn Rand

• "I want every girl to know that her voice can change the world." —Malala Yousafzai

• "You don’t have to play masculine to be a strong woman." —Mary Elizabeth Winstead

• "She was a wild one. Always stomping on eggshells that everyone else tip-toed on." —Kaitlin Foster

• "Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world." —Hillary Clinton

• "The best protection any woman can have is courage." —Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• "Girls should never be afraid to be smart." —Emma Watson

• "Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim." —Nora Ephron

• "Where there is a woman, there is magic." —Ntozake Shange

• "I’m pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there." —Aubrey Plaza

• "When the world tells you to shrink, expand." —Elaine Welteroth

• "I’ve never been interested in being invisible and erased." —Laverne Cox

• "I encourage women to step up. Don’t wait for somebody to ask you." —Reese Witherspoon

• "I am a woman and I get to define what that means." —Swati Sharma

• "She wasn't looking for a knight, she was looking for a sword." —Atticus

• "In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits" —Arnold Schwarzenegger

• "Women are the real architects of society." —Cher

• "I expect woman will be the last thing civilized by man." —George Meredith

• "She’s everything; even when she’s treated like nothing." —R.H. Sin

• "She remembered who she was and the game changed." –Lalah Deliah

That’s some inspirational quotes for Women's Day that you can share.

However, if you fail to give a thoughtful gift to the special woman in your life, this special occasion won't be complete, is it?

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