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Quotes to Uplift. Inspire. Empower.

 

These quotes are great for reading & sharing!  Spread love and empowerment to a fellow sisSTAR today!

"Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we're scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don't have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own 'to do' list."

- First Lady Michelle Obama

 

 

"I think once a relationship is done it's done, you can't do that back and forth thing. It's the most exhausting process"

- Taylor Swift

 

 

"For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers, and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts." 

- President Obama

 

 

"I don't have to be skinny to consider myself a model. I'm thick and loving all of my curves!"

- Blogger, actress, and model Nikki B

 

 

"Relationship is needed only because you can’t be alone, because you are not yet capable of meditation. Hence, meditation is a MUST before you can really love. One should be capable of being alone, utterly alone, and yet tremendously blissful. Then you can love. Then your love is no more a need but a sharing, no more a necessity. You will not become dependent on the people you love. You will share — and sharing is beautiful."

- Osho

 

 

"Please stop saying you don’t want to be role models. Because, guess what: You are."

- Rashida Jones

 

 

“Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.”

Mary McLeod Bethune

 

 

"Women are the real architects of society"

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears."

- Adele

 

 

"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them." - Sojourner Truth

 

 

"Women are very crucial to this nation, everyone depends on us, it starts from us, we're the backbone of communities" - Chimere Ward, Chef and Owner of Clean Plate Co.

 

 

"Sometimes you have to be bold in your ideas, sometimes it is about looking at the world differently and being bold enough to take that leap.”

- Dr. Mae Jemison, 1st black woman to travel space on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992

 

 

"Women are the most powerful natural resource and a force to be reckoned with."

- Ishita Gupta, Founder & Publisher of Fear.less Magazine

 

 

"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl."

- Shirley Chisholm

 

 

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

- Margaret Thatcher

 

 

“It’s always part and parcel of it, you’re expected as a woman, this is what you trade off of, this is how you sell tickets to the movies, this is your part of it,” she rattled off, regretting the state of the business. “Your job as a promoter is this: They’re not sticking a guy on the cover doing it, unless it’s like Seth Rogen doing a joke. So as a woman I’m expected to sell myself, my body, my image, my sexuality, in order to get your ticket sales up. It’s kind of fucked up. And it’s like, wait, I wasn’t aware that when I signed on to act, I had to sell myself that much.”

- Rose McGowan

"I've always been one to make it very clear, love me or hate me, take it or leave it, this is who I am...I embrace my body, and I embrace everything about myself."

- Christina Aguilera

 

 

"Being pregnant was very much like falling in love," Knowles says. "You are so open. You are so overjoyed. There's no words that can express having a baby growing inside of you, so of course you want to scream it out and tell everyone." - Beyonce

 

 

"I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. Madame C. J. Walker was a bridge. Fannie Lou Hamer was a bridge."

- Oprah

 

 

"Real fearless and fierce women admit mistakes and work to correct them. We stand up and we use our voices for things other than self-promotion. We don’t stand by and let racism and sexism and homophobia run rampant on our watch. Real fierce and fearless women celebrate and compliment other women and we recognize and embrace the notion that their shine in no way diminishes our light, and actually makes our light shine brighter.”

- Gabrielle Union at Essence Magazine's Black Women In Hollywood Luncheon 2013

 

 

"Women are the real leaders"

- Jimmy Jean-Louis

 

 

"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness."

- Oprah

 

 

"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

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