Badass Women Quotes to Inspire Strength, Confidence, and Power

“A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink.”

— Gina Carey

“You don’t have to play masculine to be a strong woman.”

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

“The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved. Women who live bravely, both tender and fierce. Women of indomitable will.”

— Amy Tenney

“I am a strong woman because a strong woman raised me.”

— Unknown

“She wore her scars as her best attire. A stunning dress made of hellfire.”

— Daniel Saint

“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

— Nora Ephron

“She was powerful, not because she wasn’t scared but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear.”

— Atticus

“I am not a difficult woman. I am simply a strong woman and know my worth.”

— Unknown

“Strong women don’t have attitudes. They have standards.”

— Unknown

“You can tell who the strong women are. They are the ones you see building each other up instead of tearing each other down.”

— Unknown

“Confidence is not ‘they will like me.’ Confidence is ‘I’ll be fine if they don’t.’”

— Christina Grimmie

“You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.”

— Melissa Etheridge

“Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.”

— Maya Angelou

“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”

— Coco Chanel

“The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.”

— Beyoncé

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”

— Rosalynn Carter

“She remembered who she was and the game changed.”

— Lalah Delia

“Self-confidence is the best outfit. Rock it and own it.”

— Unknown

“Believe in yourself and you will be unstoppable.”

— Unknown

“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.”

— Amelia Earhart

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”

— Audre Lorde

“A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.”

— Melinda Gates

“The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be, so you can create a better world.”

— Ashley Rickards

“Do not wait for someone else to come and speak for you. It’s you who can change the world.”

— Malala Yousafzai

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

— Diane Mariechild

“Power is not given to you. You have to take it.”

— Beyoncé

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

— Carl Jung

“A woman’s strength cannot be measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but a woman’s strength can be measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.”

— C. JoyBell C.

“Well-behaved women seldom make history.”

— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.”

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard... We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.”

— Malala Yousafzai

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.”

— Estée Lauder

“Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.”

— Cheris Kramarae

“The most dangerous woman of all is the one who refuses to rely on your sword to save her because she carries her own.”

— R.H. Sin

“There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.”

— Michelle Obama

“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.”

— Katharine Hepburn

“A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everyone else.”

— Unknown

“She believed she could, so she did.”

— R.S. Grey

“Be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of someone else.”

— Judy Garland

“I can and I will. Watch me.”

— Carrie Green

“Strong women don’t have attitudes, they have standards.”

— Unknown

“I’m not afraid to walk this world alone.”

— Gerard Way

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“I am my own muse.”

— Frida Kahlo

“Be the kind of woman that makes other women want to up their game.”

— Unknown

“You can’t keep a good woman down.”

— Unknown

“In the end, we are our choices.”

— Jeff Bezos