102 Inspiring Quotes For Women

In a world where motivation and empowerment are vital to success and self-discovery, words have the power to inspire and transform. Women across the globe continue to break barriers, shatter glass ceilings, and redefine success on their terms. Whether you're seeking a boost to start your day, encouragement to face challenges, or inspiration to follow your dreams, a well-timed quote can resonate deeply and provide just the push you need. In this post, we've gathered a curated collection of 102 inspiring quotes for women, each one a tribute to strength, resilience, and the unique experiences that shape every woman's journey. Dive in and let these powerful words ignite your spirit and guide you toward greatness.

1. “The way black women say "girl" can be magical. Frankly, I have no solid beliefs about the survival of consciousness after physical death. But if it's going to happen I know what I want to see after my trek toward the light. I want to see a black woman who will smile and say, "Girl....” - Abigail Padgett

2. “A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.” - Caroline Mytinger

3. “As Unto the bow the the cord is ,So unto the man is woman;Though she bends him, she obeys him,Though she draws him , yet she follows:Useless each without the other.” - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

4. “It was all Mrs. Bumble. She would do it," urged Mr. Bumble; first looking round, to ascertain that his partner had left the room.That is no excuse," returned Mr. Brownlow. "You were present on the occasion of the destruction of these trinkets, and, indeed, are the more guilty of the two, in the eye of the law; for the law supposes that your wife acts under your direction."If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass — a idiot. If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is, that his eye may be opened by experience — by experience.” - Charles Dickens

5. “If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.” - Arthur Golden

6. “Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible.” - James Joyce

7. “She will not be simple and sweet.She will not be what people tell her she should be.” - E. Lockhart

8. “If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.” - Paolo Coelho

9. “Listen to me, Amin," I said slowly. "Listen to me very carefully. Nothing is the same. Nothing will ever be the same again. There lives on this earth a woman who can be my friend and my lover. Do you understand that? Do you understand what a marvelous thing that is?""A friend is a friend," Uthman interrupted, "and a woman is a woman. You can't have them in one person. The whole world knows that.""If that's what the whole world knows, ...then the whole world is wrong. I believed the whole world, and I lost her.” - Barbara Cohen

10. “Miss West is never idle. Below, in the big after-room, she does her own laundering. Nor will she let the steward touch her father's fine linen. In the main cabin she has installed a sewing-machine. All hand-stitching, and embroidering, and fancy work she does in the deck-chair beside me. She avers that she loves the sea and the atmosphere of sea-life, yet, verily, she has brought her home-things and land-things along with her--even to her pretty china for afternoon tea.” - Jack London

11. “What is a man?What is a woman?Why are men and women attracted to each other?Why do they desire each other?Love...what is it?” - Yuu Watase

12. “Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like a mournful wreck ruined by lust, in the midst of her own banal, perfidious pollution.” - Jean Lorrain

13. “I always knew the woman i wanted to be- I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independant” - Diane Von Furstenburg

14. “Some people think that nothing moves in this world without leave of the woman. Do not know more, but I can say that war never happened, nor can there be, when you do not want to leave sovereign” - José de Alencar

15. “A woman must be a woman and cannot be a man. She, too, is God's creature and her divine station is that she should bear and care for and rear children. So I am a man created for another office and work. But should I be proud because of this and say: I am not a woman, therefore I am better in the sight of God? Should I not rather praise God for creating both the woman and me also through the woman and putting me in this station? What a un-Christian thing it is that one should despire another because he is in another station or is doing something other then he is doing?... "Everyone who exalts himself will be humbled." for God will not and can not tolerate such pride and arrogance.” - Martin Luther

16. “A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power.” - Marianne Williamson

17. “When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.” - Marianne Williamson

18. “When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.” - Marianne Williamson

19. “I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?” - Karl Lagerfeld

20. “The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.” - Karl Lagerfeld

21. “It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.” - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

22. “I have a hundred reasons to dislike this gentleman,” Erica reminded herself aloud. “And a thousand reasons more not to go courting with any man.”Lavinia laughed at that. “Whenever has a woman’s heart listened to her head?” - T. Davis Bunn

23. “Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and the universe is changed, once again, for cold anger requires an eternal vigilance in all matters of slight and offense” - Gregory Maguire

24. “But first of all he is a woodsman, and you aren't a woodsman unless you have such a feeling for topography that you can look at the earth and see what it would look like without any woods or covering on it. It's something like the gift all men wish for when they or young-- or old-- of being able to look through a woman's clothes and see her body, possibly even a little of her character.” - Norman Maclean

25. “A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” - Diane Mariechild

26. “They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.” - Anais Nin

27. “I never fell in love with another woman. I cannot have a relationship with a woman if I'm not in love...I'm a very particular person, I'm not very much interested in short adventures with women or girls. I have to fall in love with someone in order to have a realtionship with her.” - Omar Sharif

28. “Little sister don't you worry about a thing todayTake the heat from the sunLittle sisterI know that everything is not okBut you're like honey on my tongueTrue love never can be rentBut only true love can keep beauty innocentI could never take a chanceOf losing love to find romanceIn the mysterious distanceBetween a man and a womanNo I could never take a chance'Cause I could never understandThe mysterious distanceBetween a man and a womanYou can run from loveAnd if it's really love it will find youCatch you by the heelBut you can't be numb for loveThe only pain is to feel nothing at allHow can I hurt when I'm holding you?I could never take a chanceOf losing love to find romanceIn the mysterious distanceBetween a man and a womanAnd you're the one, there's no-one elsewho makes me want to lose myselfIn the mysterious distanceBetween a man and a womanBrown eyed girl across the streetOn rue Saint DivineI thought this is the one for meBut she was already mineYou were already mine...Little sisterI've been sleeping in the street againLike a stray dogLittle sisterI've been trying to feel complete againBut you're gone and so is GodThe soul needs beauty for a soul mateWhen the soul wants...the soul waits ...No I could never take a chanceOf losing love to find romanceIn the mysterious distanceBetween a man and a womanFor love and FAITH AND SEX and fearAnd all the things that keep us hereIn the mysterious distanceBetween a man and a womanHow can I hurt when I'm holding you?” - U2

29. “Una rosa se despertó en su sangre y ensombreció sus mejillas. Un agitado aliento separó los pétalos de sus labios, que temblaron. Sobre ella sopló algún viento sur de pasión y movió los delicados pliegos de su vestido” - Oscar Wilde

30. “I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.” - George Meredith

31. “People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy ending in a novel—certainly, it's nice when it happens. But when you've invested so much time and your fingers have pushed through all that paper and you get to the end…well, a tragic ending kind of goes with the tragedy of finishing a book.” - Julia Roberts on Thomas Hardy's "An Imaginative Woman"

32. “Majority of women like to fantasize and men like to romanticize. I saw a painful mountain in her eyes.” - Santosh Kalwar

33. “Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.” - Dorothy L. Sayers

34. “Being a woman, I tried, I cared, I loved and blamed in return.” - Priyanka Bhowmick

35. “My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.” - Charlaine Harris

36. “لا تعتذر لامرأة عن أي خطأ، لأنك ستبقى متهما عندها حتى لو عرفت بعدك ألف رجل” - أنيس منصور

37. “A pleasurable woman could cause more harm than miserable one.” - Santosh Kalwar

38. “Elise Vasquez and I stand shoulder to shoulder, watching the woman we both feel we lost, and may be never really had.” - Jodi Picoult

39. “The Girl was gone, buried in the past. She never wanted to hear that name again. She was a woman for better for worse. Whatever the future might bring she could face it as a woman, Ned Ridley's woman.” - Catherine Cookson

40. “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.” - Simone de Beauvoir

41. “Retrato de Mulher Triste Vestiu-se para um baile que não há.Sentou-se com suas últimas jóias.E olha para o lado, imóvel.Está vendo os salões que se acabaram,embala-se em valsas que não dançou,levemente sorri para um homem.O homem que não existiu.Se alguém lhe disser que sonha,levantará com desdém o arco das sobrancelhas,Pois jamais se viveu com tanta plenitude.Mas para falar de sua vidatem de abaixar as quase infantis pestanas,e esperar que se apaguem duas infinitas lágrimas.” - Cecília Meireles

42. “As it so happens, I like your mouth.""It doesn't -- ""Challenge me?" He set the bottle down and moved to the end of the bed. "An outspoken woman makes the world a livable place. You have fire in you, and I would never put that out.” - Dannika Dark

43. “God bless ladies with costly, tasteful clothes and touching, dirty fingernails that champion gifted, foreign poets and decorate the library in beautiful, melancholy fashion! My God, this universe is nothing to snicker at!” - J.D. Salinger

44. “It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.” - Ashly Lorenzana

45. “Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

46. “All matters being spiritual; man or woman can only find peace when peace is realized from within.” - T.F. Hodge

47. “Look for the heart in a man before you look at what he has.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

48. “At a time when she was engaged to Stilton Cheesewright, I remember recording in the archives that she was tall and willowy with a terrific profile and luxuriant platinum blond-hair, the sort of girl who might, as far as looks were concerned, have been the star unit of the harem of one of the better-class sultans.” - P.G. Wodehouse

49. “Man who hates cats is insecure, but a man who likes them is one worth keeping. If he can appreciate a cat, he can appreciate a strong, independent woman.” - Larissa Ione

50. “I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form.” - Tiruvalluvar

51. “When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free.” - Jeanette Winterson

52. “Is there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)” - George R.R. Martin

53. “She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love who’d died degraded and afraid on a misty Irish morning.” - C.S. Harris

54. “She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and woman's heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me when He made that so good combination.” - Bram Stoker

55. “You don't mean to say that Hogan has turned into a woman? Why, yes, that's him all right, you can recognize him by the fact that he has two legs, two arms, and an indecipherable face. Man, woman, what difference does it make? Are they not all exactly the same, these little black insects with their rhythmic movements, the same eyes, the same thoughts?” - j.m.g. le clezio

56. “When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier,she seems to fade beside my mother.” - Andrew Sean Greer,The story of a marriage

57. “When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.” - Stacy Schiff

58. “...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.” - Pearl Cleage

59. “The most beautiful is to see the joy in your eyes.” - Gregor Golob

60. “Una mujer desnuda y en lo oscuro tiene una claridad que nos alumbra de modo que si ocurre un desconsuelo un apagón o una noche sin luna es conveniente y hasta imprescindible tener a mano una mujer desnuda. Una mujer desnuda y en lo oscuro genera un resplandor que da confianza entonces dominguea el almanaque vibran en su rincon las telarañas y los ojos felices y felinos miran y de mirar nunca se cansan.Una mujer desnuda y en lo oscuro es una vocación para las manos para los labios es casi un destino y para el corazón un despilfarro una mujer desnuda es un enigma y siempre es una fiesta descifrarlo. Una mujer desnuda y en lo oscuro genera una luz propia y nos enciende el cielo raso se convierte en cielo y es una gloria no ser inocente una mujer querida o vislumbrada desbarata por una vez la muerte.” - Mario Benedetti Una mujer desnuda y en lo oscuro

61. “I ain’t the only old woman looking. I’m just the only one honest enough to admit it. The others just hire the boy to cut their grass so they can sit at the window and drool.” - Glines Abbi

62. “Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.” - Willa Cather

63. “Only insecure boys will belittle a woman. The greatest way to "man-up" is to empower women.” - Steve Maraboli

64. “Success for a woman means absolute surrender, in whatever direction. Whether she paints a picture, or loves a man, there is no division of labor possible in her economy. To the attainment of any end worth living for, a symmetrical sacrifice of her nature is compulsory upon her.” - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

65. “A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.” - Stephen King

66. “I'm OK with being single, but I'm not OK when the time comes where I have to move my furniture around and to change the high ceiling light balls...” - Hiroko Sakai

67. “In trans women's eyes, I see a wisdom that can only come from having to fight for your right to be recognized as female, a raw strength that only comes fro unabashedly asserting your right to be feminine in an inhospitable world.” - Julia Serano

68. “We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.” - Catherynne M. Valente

69. “Woman must come of age by herself -- she must find her true center alone.” - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

70. “(On having being just proposed to)'Have you been thinking of this for long?' she managed jerkily, praying for the shock to recede so that she could behave a little more normally.'Let's say it crept up on me,' he suggested lightly.That didn't sound very romantic. Muggers crept up on you; so did old age.” - Lynne Graham

71. “As to women, I agree that each has three or four souls, but none of them a reasoning one.” - Henryk Sienkjewicz

72. “It is not Atlas who carries the world on his shoulders, but woman; and sometimes she plays with it as with a ball.” - Henryk Sienkjewicz

73. “Her fragrance blew him off and his body followed steps he had never learnt in his life.” - Faraaz Kazi

74. “How was she created? I'm not sure if you realize this, but it was in God's image. How can anybody dare to speak ill of something which bears such a noble imprint?” - Christine de Pizan

75. “Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.” - Alice Hoffman

76. “After all, inside every woman, no matter how grown up she is, there is still a frightened little girl.” - Sergei Lukyanenko

77. “Real women don't love the richest guy in the world they love the guy who can make their world the richest.” - Jazz Feylynn

78. “В края на краищата всяка жена помни прекрасно мъжете, с които се е забравяла...” - Asya Kuleva

79. “She might have acted like she didn't know.But she knew,a woman always knows” - D Lowery

80. “It became clear to her that all men, however respectable in appearance and however elevated their position in society, were utter weaklings in front of a beautiful woman. - The Yacoubian Building, p. 42” - Alaa Al Aswany

81. “The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.” - William Blake

82. “Ако жените поискат, пролетта идва рано.” - Hacer Yeni

83. “You can't go through life striking out at people who hurt or scare you. All that does is show them that you're weak. It tells them that they've wounded you, and a strong woman never shows her wounds unless it serves a purpose.” - Lisa Cach

84. “The sign of a true woman isn't the ability to recite French poetry or play the pianoforte or cook Chateaubriand. The sign of a true woman is learning to listen to her own voice even when society does its best to drown it out.” - Eve Marie Mont

85. “Every woman needs a man.” - Missy Lyons

86. “She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men’s boots in bad weather” - Henrik Ibsen

87. “A woman's beauty should not imitate art.” - Lionel Suggs

88. “Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.” - Margaret Way

89. “She was one of those golden mulatas that French-speaking Caribbeans call chabines, that my boys call chicas de oro; she had snarled, apocalyptic hair, copper eyes, and was one whiteskinned relative away from jaba.” - Junot Diaz

90. “A woman could do that to you - reach that place in your soul where the best and worst of you was kept. And once she was there, she owned that place and never left.” - Lisa Kleypas

91. “Spanish rain,A maiden’s dress,Apothecary pillsAnd ancient thrills;Melancholy killsA girl’s caress.(—Roman Payne; Valencia, Spain, November 2nd 2012)” - Roman Payne

92. “Women are more evolved biologically and emotionally, that’s well knownand it’s obvious. But they confuse sex and the spirit; they don’tseparate. Men, as you know, always separate: they separatetheir human and dog natures.” - Jeet Thayil

93. “If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
” - Dark Jar Tin Zoo

94. “The inner man is the periphery of our consciousness. It is also the inner man that takes care of and protects the inner woman for example through putting up creative boundaries. The meeting between a man and a woman on the outer plane creates a relationship. This relationship is not a conflict, but they complement each other. The outer meeting between a man and a woman also creates integration between our own inner male and female sides.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

95. “Bir kadın bir şehir olmalı. İstanbul kadar loş. Haliç kadar bulanık. Erik kadar tuza hasret. Nergis kadar güzel kokmalı. Derinlerine alıp sokmalı, sarmalı. Kalbi cam gibi kıpkırmızı atmalı.” - Hacer Yeni

96. “Perempuan memang tidak bisa diajak berpikir jernih jika menyangkut perihal lelaki. Dalam situasi seperti ini, kepala mereka dipenuhi kabur merah muda bernama dopamine yang meracuni sel-sel kelabu mereka dengan berbagai ide romantis yang absurd.” - Windry Ramadhina

97. “We are faithful as long as we love, but youdemand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving ofherself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there--woman or man?” - Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch

98. “He said, I always thought the woman I’d marry would hit me easy, in a bolt of lightning, and there is not lightning there is not even thunder there is not even rain.” - Aimee Bender

99. “He could have watched her all night. He could watch her for an eternity and still never be able to capture the essence of what it is that makes ‘love’.” - Dianna Hardy

100. “الله خلق المرأة لنحبها لا لنفهمها” - أنيس منصور

101. “A woman's greatest and most perduring failure will be her failure to love. It is certainly not without significance that so many women presently pressing for power on the political, sociological or ecclesial scene are unbeautiful in their unsmilling press for dominance. Contorted faces and clenched fists are particularly repellant in woman, who is gifted with unique powers to radiate love and extend healing hands.” - Mother Mary Francis P.C.C.

102. “মেয়েরা অল্প কারণে কাদতে জানে এবং বিনা কারণে হাসতে পারে, কারণ ব্যতীত কার্য হয় না, জগতের এই কড়া নিয়মটা কেবল পুরুষের পক্ষেই খাটে । ....রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর” - রবীন দ রনাথ ঠাকুর