Quotes About Women's Achievements

#1. You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.

Joan Armatrading

#2. The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

Hannah Cowley

#3. As Darwin said by keeping women at home their achievements were paltry compared to men's which proved women were biologically inferior. And he should know because he was a Genius. You probably learned about him at school.

Jacky Fleming

#4. Continually measuring women's wants by men's achievements seems out of date, ignominious, and intolerably boring ... Now that we have secured possession of the tools of citizenship, we intend to use them not to copy men's models but to produce our own.

Eleanor Rathbone

#5. We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and no remaining ceilings to shatter.

Barack Obama

#6. Its super to play with Martina, and she has huge amounts of talent. We have a lot of fun.

Mary Pierce

#7. While we enjoy the benefits of living in the greatest democracy in the world, we must be ever conscious of the fact that none of the achievements or freedoms enjoyed in America would be possible without the price that has been paid for by our servicemen and women.

Mark Kennedy

#8. Empty words show an empty mind, and silence speaks most eloquently of all.

Tanya Huff

#9. In their (women) quest for rights they have naturally placed emphasis on their wrongs rather than their achievements and possessions, and have retold history as a story of their long martyrdom

Mary Ritter Beard

#10. If we can't quantify and communicate our value with confidence, the achievements of the tremendous women before us will have all been for nothing.

Mika Brzezinski

#11. The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

George Henry Lewes

#12. I'm working on a large project which I hope will become a book. A war book.' 'Hasn't someone already written that one?

Jo Nesbo

#13. People that are jealous and envious of you are too freaking lazy to step up their own game.

April Mae Monterrosa

#14. Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.

Sheryl Sandberg

#15. It is best to keep one's own state intact; to crush the enemy's state is only second best.

Sun Tzu

#16. For men, professional success comes with positive reinforcement at every step of the way. For women, even when they're recognized for their achievements, they're often regarded unfavorably.

Sheryl Sandberg

#17. I'm very pleased to be recognising International Women's Day, a day that celebrates the achievements of women across the world.

Theresa May

#18. Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.

Isabelle Huppert

#19. It took the United States until 1920 to give women the franchise and another 40 or 50 years to start utilizing women's potential. How many women of incredible potential did we fail and what achievements were lost to all because we never tapped that potential?

James E. Rogers

#20. Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power, and no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children, or merely role models.

Elizabeth Dole

#21. Sometime in the coming century, people will rack their brains pondering how nations with tremendous scientific and intellectual achievements could have given uninstructed and untrained men and women the right to vote equally uninstructed and untrained people into responsible positions.

Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

#22. To belittle romance fiction is to belittle women. To read romance fiction is to confront the strength of women, the variety of their experience, and the validity of their aspirations and achievements.

Judith Arnold

#23. We sometimes let ourselves be rated too much by others - we put so much emphasis on a paycheck or what a magazine says.

Brad Pitt

#24. No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path.

Edgar Allan Poe

#25. One of the achievements of our generation of feminists was to emancipate women from the division between being interested in clothes and appearance, and being serious and ambitious. I am of the first generation that could go to Biba, wear miniskirts and get a degree.

Marina Warner

#26. Technology may be traditionally perceived as a male-dominated industry, but it won't always be that way. Every day we see more and more powerful women leaders boasting outstanding achievements.

Clara Shih

#27. Men are allowed to be focused on their own achievements, while loyalty is expected from women.

Sheryl Sandberg

#28. I'm a classic movie person. I love action movies, too, but when I grew up I didn't have much action movies.

Bruno Zheng Wu

#29. What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.
"Well, Eve
it will be awkward if I do that. Poor lamb! I shall have to make him believe I only did it by looking fragile and pathetic at the viva.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#30. Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards. This is your life and mine. I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.

Mr. Lee

#31. A writer must be fearless. A writer has to be like a clawed animal.
-The Carrie Diaries pg. 337

Candace Bushnell

#32. In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

Mahatma Gandhi