Top 100 Quotes About Girl Power
#2. It was the Spice Girls who messed it all up. And obviously, the appropriating of the phrase "girl power", which at that point overrode any notion of feminism, and which was a phrase that meant absolutely nothing apart from being friends with your girlfriends.
Caitlin Moran
#3. I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.
Ronnie Spector
#4. Dixie Flynn may be the most kick-ass heroine ever created. Kudos to M.C. Grant for giving us the ultimate 'girl power' thriller."
- TESS GERRITSEN, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SILENT GIRL
M.C. Grant
#5. A power that can't be used for good? Like a bad girl power? I wouldn't mind being clairvoyant, but I wouldn't want it if I couldn't use it for good. Peace and love, man. Peace and love.
Alicia Sixtos
#6. I'm just so glad that girl power is working in Hollywood.
Vivica A. Fox
#7. My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.
Paulina Rubio
#8. A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.
Ani DiFranco
#9. I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.
Elizabeth Banks
#10. People expected 'Jennifer's Body' to make so much money. But I was doubtful. The movie is about a man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader, and that pretty much eliminates middle America. It's obviously a girl-power movie, but it's also about how scary girls are. Girls can be a nightmare.
Megan Fox
#11. Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.
Nicole Scherzinger
#12. But this was the way I liked things. I ended it (or he did), I had a few weeks' getting over it and
listening to lots of girl-power music and eating ice cream, and then, before too long, I'd start to crush
on someone new and would begin the whole cycle over again. It worked for me.
Morgan Matson
#13. I love that Euro-pop dance music, but with girl power. I also listen to Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan. I have a Beatles song tattooed on my foot. I'm all over the place.
Hilary Duff
#14. How's a skeleton crew supposed to save Chase from the giants who annihilated our parents?"
"I believe your people call it "girl power.
Brian K. Vaughan
#15. One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother of five girls, which gives me great hope for the future - girl power! Can I say that without alienating all of the men?
Queen Noor Of Jordan
#16. My problem is I can think whatever I think - girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah - but I still feel the way I feel.
Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.
E. Lockhart
#17. Well, screw this daddy complex shit. 100ccs of Madonna girl power needed STAT!
Kate Meader
#18. Girls get a lot of mixed messages - they are told, 'Girl Power!' and what does that mean? It means you wear a T-shirt that says, 'Girl Power!' but you call each other bitches. You make fun of a girl for being a virgin and you make fun of a girl for having sex. There's no right place to be.
Tina Fey
#19. Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.
Amy Sherman-Palladino
#20. Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.
Caitlin Moran
#21. Girl power to me means being brave enough to take that first step and to speak out and be yourself.
Katherine McNamara
#22. I wouldn't call myself a feminist. I try to live by the girl-power motto. It's about believing in yourself, no matter how bad a day you're having, and lending your support to other women. It's empowering to have that camaraderie with other women.
Melanie Brown
#23. It is hard to write it in words that I can read, that re-establishes the fact that has been haunting me for the past one year.
Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary
#24. She was like John Rambo meets Polly Pocket; Dakota Fanning crossed with Death Wish 4.
Mark Millar
#25. Maxon: "To be clear, no one agrees with you."
America: "To be clear, I don't care.
Kiera Cass
#26. it took
losing him
to finally
find
myself.
It took
losing him
a second time
to be sure
of myself.
that
was my
first act
of
self-love.
Amanda Lovelace
#27. When everything goes wrong, it's better to remember
someone who is not going to question you or blame you for what
you have done. Not even offer some free advice.
That's the best thing about God.
Sheeja Jose
#28. Being a girl doesn't make you weak, Parker. It makes you special.
Ali Novak
#29. My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#30. She ate the stars and swallowed the earth,
She is the girl with all the power.
Zoraida Cordova
#31. I killed a guy, maybe two. Possibly three.
I have one power. Not two or three or four. Just one.
I met a girl, and she changed everything.
Patrick Carman
#33. If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children.
Terry Pratchett
#34. This is the story of a girl who fooled a thousand boys, a boy who fooled an entire country, a partnership that would change the fate of realms, and a power to challenge the greatest tyrant the world had ever known. Expect magic.
Sherry Thomas
#35. In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness ... but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilities conscientiously.
Joss Whedon
#36. We were encouraged to propose safetyprevention suggestions, and write them all down - locking doors, walking or exercising with a friend, wearing shoes that don't hinder running. Erin's suggestion of "Avoid assholes" was popular.
Tammara Webber
#37. Erin: We get to beat the shit outta guys in those big puffy suits!!! I've always wanted to really kick the crap outta some guy's nuts. Now I can do it guilt-free!
Me: You're a sick girl.
Erin: Guilty as charged.
Tammara Webber
#38. The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be, so you can create a better world.
Ashley Rickards
#39. For all the girls in all the worlds.
May you feel strength with your first breath,
realize your unlimited potential for greatness on your second, and follow your dreams on your third.
C.S. O'Kelly
#40. The extremists are afraid of books and pens, the power of education frightens them. they are afraid of women.
Malala Yousafzai
#41. Boys are given the universe in which to carve out their identities, the promise of infinite space for them to expand into and contract upon. Girls are allowed only enough room to be stars, and they must twinkle, twinkle if they want anyone to pay attention to them.
Clementine Ford
#42. The most important gift anyone can give a girl is a belief in her own power as an individual, her value without reference to gender, her respect as a person with potential.
Emilie Buchwald
#43. Besides, what do I know about being a wife? There are much more important qualities to have than a docile disposition.
C.J. Redwine
#44. Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. No longer do I fear. No longer do I let others define me. I know what I am. What I'm capable of. That I'm a girl ... a woman who will fight to survive.
Sophie Jordan
#46. Yes, she'd made a mistake ... but she wasn't going to be bullied. You couldn't let boys go around raining on your lava and ogling other people's watercolors.
Terry Pratchett
#47. But the girl had spent long years being invisible. She'd already had a ghost's life, hidden from the world and from herself. Better than anyone, she knew the power of things long buried.
Leigh Bardugo
#48. A steely look of anger flared in my mother's eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own.
Rick Riordan
#49. I want world leaders to choose books over bullets ... We can afford to give every girl 12 years of free education. It is absolutely in our power, and when we do, we will realize a whole new world of possibility.
Malala Yousafzai
#50. A girl can't always wait for a knight in shining armor. She'd be dead long before he ever shows up, if at all.
Casey Odell
#51. There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we
Ina May Gaskin
#52. When I put on makeup, I'm not doing it to pander to antiquated patriarchal ideas of feminine beauty. I'm doing it because it makes me feel good.
Sophia Amoruso
#53. The only power any man has over you is the power you give him.
Renee Ahdieh
#54. You can't be afraid of what people are going to say, because you're never going to make everyone happy.
Selena Gomez
#55. Fake flattery or not, his words spiked my system with happy. Behold, the power of a guy paying attention to a girl.
Jenny B. Jones
#56. Power to me is having the ability to make a change in a positive way.
Victoria Justice
#57. I am not your Doll, and I will not take it easy. The more you fight the more pain I will bring to you. There is no longer a string that can be pulled to make me all cute and cuddly again.
Kerri E. Lorenz
#58. A girl fainted in front of me the other day. Obviously you don't get to see things like that unless you are The Beatles who have that power, and to see it that close was a bit scary ... It was cool to know I can make a girl faint!
Zayn Malik
#59. There's definitely one person in this world I know I can count on. She's there in the mirror.
E. Katherine Kottaras
#60. When you love, dear girl, you give another the power to hurt you. If you love deeply enough, you give another the power to destroy you.
George Bryan Polivka
#61. That was Emma - she'd have enjoyed knowing she had something like that, something that could blow her whole fucking life and mine apart if it came out. Her little bit of power.
J.P. Delaney
#62. A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she's not only a mother, she's not only a sister, she's not only a wife. But a girl has the - she should have an identity. She should be recognized and she has equal rights as a boy.
Malala Yousafzai
#63. 'Lost Boys' is one of my all-time faves. I just thought it would be great to be a vampire. I remember this movie called 'Once Bitten,' which is about an '80s sort of power girl who became a vampire and was really, like, sexy. Hair like she was from 'Dallas,' shoulder pads, big earrings.
Lena Headey
#64. Right now, I'm just a girl, and there is also magic in that.
Zoraida Cordova
#65. The best word shakers were the ones who understood the true power of words. They were the ones who could climb the highest. One such word shaker was a small, skinny girl. She was renowned as the best word shaker of her region because she knew how powerless a person could be WITHOUT words.
Markus Zusak
#66. Tears are the biggest weapon used by every girl against the boys with a success rate of hundred percent.
Aman Jassal
#67. She'd hurt him, but she'd attempted everything in her power to make things right. She'd shown him in a thousand ways that she was honorable and strong and generous and very human, maybe even more vividly human than anyone he'd ever known.
Leigh Bardugo
#68. A Jesus girl who rises up and unexpectedly gives grace when she surely could have done otherwise reveals the power and the mystery of Christ at work - in her life and in the world.
Lysa TerKeurst
#69. No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#70. She would rather remain silent, but her voice is no longer something to fear. It's strong. Powerful. A weapon of emotions.
Laura Kreitzer
#71. Phone calls are much more personal than texting and then when you get a girl on the phone, it's like you ask a question and you get a response back. For a text message, they can read it and get back to it whenever they want to. So that makes a difference, almost like a power play in a way.
Michael B. Jordan
#72. It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
#75. I thought the love I'd had for him belonged to the past, to the foolish, lonely girl I never wanted to be again. I'd tried to bury that girl and the love she'd felt, just as I'd tried to bury my power. But I wouldn't make that mistake again.
Leigh Bardugo
#76. It is the power of a girl with a book that is the best weapon for progress. (...) Because with educated women comes prosperity. And with our voices comes mercy. And with our strength comes change.
Deborah Rodriguez
#77. Mum turns back to face the screen, and I realise I'm still nodding. Anxiety Girl in action. She has the power to nod until she makes the connection she so desperately needs, or until her head falls off, whichever comes first.
Kirsty Eagar
#78. Moms, you are the first and most influential role model in your girl's life. Use that power.
Tyra Banks
#79. She was a wonderful teenage girl who had the miraculous power to cure herself from any wound, either physical or mental. With her own salty tears, she would cleanse her raw wounds. And her breaths were given, as though not to breathe but, rather, to fan her sores.
Khadija Rupa
#80. Smile and Slay.
You have to slay it in life or life will slay you.
Janna Cachola
#81. Oh, more people than not have some magic, they just forget about it. Children use it all the time - what do you think jump rope rhymes are, or bouncing ball games, or cat's cradles? Where do you think that girl, Aiffe, draws her power? Because she refuses to forget, that's all it is.
Peter S. Beagle
#82. Poor girl," I said, letting my eyes lock with hers for a moment before turning to face Cin again, weaving my hand possessively around his waist. "This is probably the first time she's ever seen anyone having fun before. I suppose we shouldn't blame her for being jealous.
Heather James
#83. What power that girl wielded, though there was nothing striking or unusual about her - unless one considered her long braid and her common sense!
Knut Hamsun
#84. It's amazing what flipping a grown man over her shoulder does for a girl.
Myra McEntire
#85. I won, goddammit. I beat Kollberg. I beat you. I got everything I goddamn wanted: fame, wealth, power. Shit, I even got the girl."
"The problem with happy endings," Tan'elKoth said,"is that nothing is ever truly over."
"Fuck that," Hari said."I am living happily ever goddamn after. I am.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#86. Not that he had any pleasure in Jean-Christophe's anger; on the contrary, it made him unhappy - but he felt his power by making Jean-Christophe suffer. He was not bad; he had the soul of a girl.
Anonymous
#87. Tell me, who is behind a great woman? That's right. No one. She has to get there herself.
Lynn Cullen
#89. Women are small and fragile ... yet the power they hold, is unmeasureable.
Da Xia
#90. When someone cannot do without you, don't think he/she is weak. When he/she loves you, don't take that for granted.
Experience has thought me that we all have the power to fall out of love at the same pace we fall in it.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#92. Girls seemed to like artists! I felt very drawn to the idea of power, really, and doing painting as a power trip, in a sense. This idea of power has always driven me.
Malcolm Morley
#93. Smiling face of every little girl is the signature of God's presence.
Amit Ray
#94. Do not think me a maiden who needs saving from a dragon. I am the dragon, and I will set the world aflame.
Sydney Marie Hughes
#95. Abstention, self-control, self-inflicted pain: these are forms of power - about the only kind you can have when you're a fourteen-year-old girl, by the way.
Meg Howrey
#96. Maybe it was only goblin women who were restless and wanted to see the world. She didn't know.
Maureen Doyle McQuerry
#97. Teach girls to read and to work at something where they can bring home money - and the entire balance of power shifts.
Jane Fonda
#98. An arresting testimony to the haunting power of friendships, THE AFTER GIRLS is a story that understands what it is to be passionate, confused, and on the brink. I loved every resonant word.
Micol Ostow
#99. You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames.
Nikita Gill
#100. By the age of thirteen, any blossoming girl knows the power she possesses over boys. By the time she's thirty she's come to realize men would stoop to fucking chickens under the right circumstances.
Jack Dancer
