30 Inspiring Quotes About Independent Women That Will Make You Want To Lead Your Best Life

30 Inspiring Quotes About Independent Women That Will Make You Want To Lead Your Best Life

Read these quotes to get inspired to kick some a**.

Lauren Jarvis-GibsonJune 10, 2016

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.

— Maya Angelou, Strong Women Quotes

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A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

— Eleanor Roosevelt, Strong Women Quotes

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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, Strong Women Quotes

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A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.

— Diane Mariechild, Strong Women Quotes

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I want to do is because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.

— Amelia Earhart, Strong Women Quotes

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Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming. Often, after hearing her speak at some function or working with her on a project, people will approach me and say something to the effect of, you know, I think the world of you, Barack, but your wife, wow!

— Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.

— Oprah Winfrey, The Most Empowering, Inspirational Quotes for Women

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Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.

— Oprah Winfrey, The Most Empowering, Inspirational Quotes for Women

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If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

— Margaret Thatcher, The Most Empowering, Inspirational Quotes for Women

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Everyone has inside of her a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be!

— Anne Frank, The Most Empowering, Inspirational Quotes for Women

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I believe in strong women. I believe in the woman who is able to stand up for herself. I believe in the woman who doesn't need to hide behind her husband's back. I believe that if you have problems, as a woman you deal with them, you don't play victim, you don't make yourself look pitiful, you don't point fingers. You stand and you deal. You face the world with a head held high and you carry the universe in your heart.

— C. Joybell C., Quotes About Strong Women

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She made broken look beautiful
and strong look invincible.
She walked with the Universe
on her shoulders and made it
look like a pair of wings.

— Ariana Dancu, Quotes About Strong Women

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I’ve often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there’s a fight to be won. If a woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.

— Karen Hawkins, [How to Abduct a Highland Lord] (By: Karen Hawkins) [published: January, 2007]

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Empowered Women 101: If they made you an option you will always be an option vs. the person they really wanted. Don't ever settle for someone that makes you go through hell only to stay with you because they don't have the confidence to go get what they really want. Fear will always follow your rules when they know they don't have options that make them stay comfortable. You won't grow real love in this type of a relationship. You will water weeds and call it a garden.

— Shannon L. Alder, Quotes About Strong Women

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I could have loved him with everything I had but he wasn't prepared for the depth i provided ~ had I been a woman of weakness I would have stayed, but he lost the chance when he said I wasn't enough that day.

— Nikki Rowe, Quotes About Strong Women

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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.

— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)

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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

— Coco Chanel, Quotes About Strong Women

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I'd rather die my way than live yours

— Lauren Oliver, Delirium (Delirium Trilogy)

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I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.

— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)

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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

— Michel de Montaigne, Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics)

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Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn't need a man; be that girl who never backed down.

— Taylor Swift, Strong Women Quotes

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I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.

— Tana French, Faithful Place

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There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.

— Greta Garbo, GARBO [DVD]

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Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.

— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

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Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

— Connie Willis, Bellwether

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I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle.

— Julie Berry, All the Truth That's in Me

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

— Oprah Winfrey, 37 Inspirational Strong Women Quotes with Images

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I’m tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, Okay.

— Madonna, 37 Inspirational Strong Women Quotes with Images

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Nothing cam dim the light that shines from within.

— Maya Angelou, 37 Inspirational Strong Women Quotes with Images

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I just love bossy women. I could be around the all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading.

— Amy Poehler, 37 Inspirational Strong Women Quotes with Images

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