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“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”

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

“Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?”

“Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts ... good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt. They're not painful. That's not just with somebody you want to marry, but it's with the friends that you choose. It's with the people you surround yourselves with.”

“It's not your job to like me - it's mine”

“We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.”

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’.”

“Women have always been the strong ones of the world.”

“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”

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

“The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.”

“If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.”

“We can do no great things-only small things with great love.”

“As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

“Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.”

“Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.”

“Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.”

“A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.”

“Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.”

“The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.”

“We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.”

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”

“Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.”

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

“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.”

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.”

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