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niyad

(113,576 posts)
Sat Aug 27, 2022, 03:11 PM Aug 2022

Who Run the World? Girls! 100 Women's Equality Day Quotes

(I only posted a few of them here. Go to the link at the bottom for the full list)


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Who Run the World? Girls! 100 Women's Equality Day Quotes
Ring in Women's Equality Day on Friday, August 26, 2022, with 100 of the best quotes for the occasion.

Stephanie Osmanski
Aug 2, 2022
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Where my girls at?! Friday, August 26, 2022, is Women's Equality Day—a day of celebrating women of all shapes, sizes, races, ethnicities and backgrounds, just how far we have come, and looking ahead at all the important justice work there is left to do.

First recognized in 1973 by U.S. Congress at the effortless campaigning of Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY), August 26 commemorates the 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment, which finally granted women the right to vote. Now, so many years later, we're still celebrating the women in our lives on this very special day, all while acknowledging the work that still needs to be done in order to achieve true equality.



1. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." —Eleanor Roosevelt

2. "My own definition is a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, there’s a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better." —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

3. "The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes." —Bella Abzug

4. “Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman’s footprints."—Shonda Rhimes


5. "When girls are educated, their countries become stronger and more prosperous."―Michelle Obama

6. "To be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future." —Simone de Beauvoir

7. "We've begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters." —Gloria Steinem

8. "How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!" —Maya Angelou

9. "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." —Alice Walker
Women's Equality Day quote from Malala Yousafzai

10. "We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back." ―Malala Yousafzai

11. "Some men are so indoctrinated that they sincerely believe that other than cooking and cleaning the only thing that a woman can do better than them is being a woman." —Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

13. "You could make a case that, along with the technological revolution, the most provocative, upending destabilizing, thrilling change in the course of human history is that we're finally in it… We're here now, women are in the world, and we will not be bullied."—Meryl Streep

14. "Don't let anyone tell you what you can and can't do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who you want to be. Just encourage and include each other, don't ostracize the gender in front of you." —Emma Watson

15. "You should have dreams, you should have visions. Never let any obstacle stop you." –Ruth Gruber

16. "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

17. "A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman." –Melinda Gates

18. "To all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful, and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams." –Hillary Clinton

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Who Run the World? Girls! 100 Women's Equality Day Quotes (Original Post) niyad Aug 2022 OP
Thank you for posting this LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2022 #1
You are most welcome. niyad Aug 2022 #5
We told our daughters over 30 years ago: DFW Aug 2022 #2
And they have certainly demonstrated that they believe, and live, that truth! niyad Aug 2022 #6
They have, indeed! DFW Aug 2022 #9
And the world is better for them. niyad Aug 2022 #10
We can only hope! DFW Aug 2022 #11
But I am not biased! niyad Aug 2022 #12
Thank you! YAY, sisters! electric_blue68 Aug 2022 #3
You are most welcome. YES!! niyad Aug 2022 #7
Kicking for visibility SheltieLover Aug 2022 #4
Thank you! niyad Aug 2022 #8

DFW

(54,443 posts)
2. We told our daughters over 30 years ago:
Sat Aug 27, 2022, 03:51 PM
Aug 2022

“Don’t ever let anyone tell you there is something you can’t do, because there is no such thing.

They were 7 and 9, and they never forgot it.

DFW

(54,443 posts)
9. They have, indeed!
Sat Aug 27, 2022, 07:45 PM
Aug 2022

I can’t say that they “exceeded our expectations,” because we HAD no expectations per se. All we wanted was for them to find something they really liked doing and then become really good at it. And so they did.

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