Want to know what famous successful women think about feminine power and women making their own choices?
We bring you a selection of quotes and sayings from which you can draw inspiration and strength to keep moving forward.
12 inspiring quotes about feminine power
1. “If you want to have what you’ve never had, you’ll have to do what you’ve never done.”
Coco Chanel
2. “The strong person is not the one who can put you down with a single look, but the one who can lift you up from your knees with a single smile!”
Juliette Binoche
3. “What attracts in a woman is not beauty, but energy.”
Irina Khakamada
Until you feel like a treasure that needs to be cherished and cared for, you shouldn’t expect that from other people.
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4. “To be a strong woman, you don’t have to be aggressive or strong-willed. Like a tree, find your roots, and then the wind won’t scare you.”
Angela Farmer
5. “After all these years, when as a woman I heard almost constantly ‘not thin enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough, not this, not that,’ I woke up one morning and thought: ‘Enough! I am enough!'”
Anna Quindlen
6. “How mistaken is the woman who waits for a man to create the world of her dreams, instead of taking it on herself!”
Anaïs Nin
7. “Strength does not come after a person has climbed a ladder or a mountain, not after they have achieved something. Gathering strength is an essential condition of the achievement process itself. The most essential strength flows from attention to the nature of the soul and its development.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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8. “If you’re always trying to be normal, you’ll never know how amazing you can be.”
Maya Angelou
9. “What we fear most is not our weakness, but our boundless power. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.”
Marianne Williamson
10. “Being strong doesn’t mean building muscles and flexing them. It means meeting your own divinity and not running away from it, but actively coexisting with the wild nature in your own way. It means being able to learn, being able to bear what you know.”
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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11. “Everything is in our hands, so we must never let them drop.”
Coco Chanel
12. “Any admission requires strength, especially admitting things to yourself. It is the one who can acknowledge their mistakes and weaknesses who can rightfully be considered a strong person.”
Juliana Wilson
We are all different and draw our strength from different sources. But no one will argue anymore that strength is not outside, but within.
Fill yourself up, and the world around you will also become filled, brighter, more multifaceted, and kinder!