80 Badass Women Quotes to Embrace Your Bold Side

This list of 80 badass women quotes in order to recognize the women who are strong, confident role models that strive every day to make the world an even better place.

The world is full of remarkable, talented and inspiring women who make an impact every day. Their unique viewpoint to every situation, proving us that anything is achievable when you’ve got the determination and determination to achieve it.

Each one of these quotes can serve as an inspiration that we all need to keep in mind that we can all be courageous and assert ourselves regardless of where life takes us. Let’s begin by gaining the inspiration of these women.

We hope that these inspirational powerful quotes by many of the best inspirational women of the present have encouraged you to take a risk and be a part of the world. Never ever let anyone convince you that you shouldn’t aim to the sky! You have the ability within you to reach your goals. Be confident in yourself, remain inspired, and achieve incredible things.

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80+ Motivational Badass Women Quotes

“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”  – Dolly Parton

“Stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. I think it’s a mistake. Not because they can’t, but because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn’t.” – Sarah Silverma

“You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.” – Sophia Bush

“Don’t give up, don’t take anything personally, and don’t take no for an answer.”  – Sophia Amoruso

“The most dangerous phrase in the language is, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’” – Grace Hopper

“The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up.” – Serena Williams

“In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.” – Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher

“I love my curves, my tattoos, my imperfections and my jiggling thighs. No one said you had to.” – Unknown

“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made… It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“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

“Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.” – Oprah Winfrey

“There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women.” – Madeleine Albright

“There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a third power stronger than both, that of women.” – Malala

“I’m the kind of girl you don’t want to fuck with.” – Riley Sager, Lock Every Door

“It’s hilarious. Men want us so badly for our bodies, yet hate us so much for our minds.” – Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“It is a man’s world in which we live, Skraeda. Let them think us lambs, when truly, we are wolves.” – Demi Winters, The Road of Bones

“It’s hilarious. Men want us so badly for our bodies, hate us so much for our minds.” – Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“More powerful gods than you have made me offers, Ennerast,’ said Kissen, ‘and I killed them just the same.” – Hannah Kaner, Godkiller

“I am the badass walker of my own path.” – Rhouveyzz

“I Once Didn’t Speak Up and Today I Don’t Shut Up” – Pamela Brescia, Nobody Asked: My Memoir

“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse- Jude Duarte, the Cruel Prince” – Holly Black

“Pryia tinha marcado um encontro inadiável da lâmina da sua faca com o coração do canalha que havia partido o seu.” – Natalia Avila, A Falsificadora de Mapas

“I don’t get off on flaunting my badassery; I’m a humble woman.” – Erika M. Weinert, Cursing with Style: A Dicktionary of Expletives

“You need to learn to respect women” – Caroline Peckham

“Take A Breath And Remember Who The Fuck You Are.” – Victoria Aveyard

“I put my hands on my hips in a Double Diva Threat.” – Kristen Ashley, Rock Chick Rescue

“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” – Amelia Earhart

“Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” – Amelia Earhart

“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” – Audrey Hepburn

“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It’s the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.” – Audrey Hepburn

“It’s a wonderful therapy. You don’t have time to feel sorry for yourself” – Dorothy Dandridge

“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.” – Audrey Hepburn

“If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.” – Margaret Thatcher, People magazine, 1975

“Elegance is the only beauty that never fades. A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual. It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‘don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.” – Audrey Hepburn

“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but nouns.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “Our Girls,” 1880

“Life is a party. Dress for it.” – Audrey Hepburn

“A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.” – Isabel Allende, Inés of My Soul

“I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.” – Audrey Hepburn

“Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists

“The most important thing is to enjoy your life, to be happy, it’s all that matters.” – Audrey Hepburn

“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.””Everyone has oceans to fly, if they have the heart to do it. Is it reckless? Maybe. But what do dreams know of boundaries?” – Amelia Earhart

“Though we have the courage to raise our daughters more like our sons, we’ve rarely had the courage to raise our sons like our daughters.” – Gloria Steinem, Women & Power Conference, 2004

“Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.””Never interrupt someone doing something you said couldn’t be done.” – Amelia Earhart

“Women are the real architects of society.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe, Household Papers and Stories

“Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.””You haven’t seen a tree until you’ve seen its shadow from the sky.” – Amelia Earhart

“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of the female liver.” – Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics

“To all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable, powerful, and deserving of every opportunity in the world and every chance to pursue your dreams.” –  Hillary Clinton, 2016

“Bitches get stuff done.” – Tina Fey, SNL

“It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can’t.” – Carol K. Carr

“Women belong in all places where decisions are being made… It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows she has none.”  – ​Marilyn Monroe

“Behind every successful woman is a tribe of other successful women who have her back.” – ​Unknown

“Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.” – Rae Smith

“When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch.” – Bette Davis

“After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought: I’m enough.”  – Anna Quindlen

“There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That’s their problem. It’s not mine.” – Gloria Allred

“If you’re too comfortable, it’s time to move on. Terrified of what’s next? You’re on the right track.” – Susan Fales Hill

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

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” – Ida B. Wells

“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.” – Gloria Steinem

“You have the right to be involved. You have something important to contribute, and you have to take the risk to contribute it.” – Mae Jemison

“Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.” – Amelia Earhart

“Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.” – Abigail Adams

“If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?” – Victoria Claflin Woodhull

“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.” – Malala Yousafzai

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

“I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.” – Eartha Kitt

“I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.” – Susan B. Anthony

“Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected” – Eartha Kitt

“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.” – Eartha Kitt

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.” – Eartha Kitt

“I’m a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don’t trust diamonds and gold.” – Eartha Kitt

“Truth is a theory that is constantly being disproved. Only lies, it seems, go on forever.” – Eartha Kitt

“Sometimes it’s good to fall down to see who will pick you up.” – Eartha Kitt

“Have you ever caught sight of yourself by accident and you see yourself from the outside? That’s who you really are.” – Dorothy Dandridge

“My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.” – Eartha Kitt

“Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.” – Eartha Kitt

Conclusion

That’s the end of this series of quotes from badass women!

If you’ve come this far, I hope these quotes will make you feel motivated to get out and begin building the life you’re meant to lead.

Be aware that these incredible women weren’t able to achieve their success over night. It took many years, and sometimes years, before they were able to realize their potential.

Don’t put your current position currently to gauge their achievements. Show on time today and do everything you can to win the chance to victory. If you win enough in a time frame that is long enough eventually, you’ll see your name appearing on some of the lists!