Quotes About Women: 40 Inspirational Sayings For March On Washington, DC, And Female Pride

Hundreds of thousands of people across the country are set to participate in the Women’s March Saturday, hours after President Donald Trump’s swearing-in ceremony. The Women's March on Washington is said to be one of the largest demonstrations organized around Trump's inauguration, and it isn’t only taking place in Washington, it’s happening across the country and overseas, too.

The Women's March on Washington started off with two women, Teresa Shook and Bob Bland, who were total strangers but with similar viewpoints. Both women decided to come together and turned their visions into reality. They came up with a strategic plan that would allow women to head to Washington for the inauguration via Facebook, which apparently worked.

Vanessa Wruble, the march's head of campaign operations, became involved in the project, and brought on organizers Tamika D. Mallory, Carmen Perez, and Linda Sarsour to add diversity.

So far, roughly 224,000 activists and protestors have RSVP’d on the event's Facebook page as of Jan. 20. Another 250,000 people are said to be "interested" in attending.

To celebrate the Women’s March, here are 40 inspirational quotes by women:

1. “When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” – Helen Keller

2. “Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.” – Margaret Thatcher

3. “Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out.” – Anita Roddick

4. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou

5. “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa

6. “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.” – Susan B. Anthony

7. “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.” – Susan B. Anthony

8. “I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.” – Oprah Winfrey

9. “A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts.” – Nancy Rathburn

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

11. I want to do is because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” – Amelia Earhart

12. “Just watch, all of you men. I’ll show you what a woman can do…I’ll go across the country, I’ll race to the Moon… I’ll never look back.” – Edna Gardner Whyte

13. “The best protection any woman can have … is courage.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

14. “We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” – Marie Curie

15. “Success breeds confidence.” – Beryl Markham

16. “Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes.” – Clare Boothe Luce

17. “The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world see us and how we see ourselves successfully acknowledged by the world.” – Arlene Rankin

18. “Love is anterior to Life, Posterior to Death, Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth.”– Emily Dickinson

19. “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand

20. “People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me.” – Princess Diana

21. “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.” – Oprah Winfrey

22. “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” – Charlotte Whitton

23. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker

24. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” – Maya Angelou

25. “Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses.”– Madame Marie du Deffand

26. “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller

27. “When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.”– Steffi Graf

28. “You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.” – Erica Jong

29. “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.”– Ruth Gordon

30. “Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you.” – Caroline Myss

31. “Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.”– Margaret Sanger

32. “One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.” – Sheila Murray Bethel

33. “You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.”– Marsha Evans

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

35. “A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.” – Rhonda Hansome

36. “We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.” – Rosalyn Sussman

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

38. “Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

39. “It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.” – J. K. Rowling

40. “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” – Simone de Beauvoir