Women's Day Quotes: 15 powerful quotes by famous authors to celebrate International Women's Day - Times of India

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Thursday, March 7, 2019

A good book not only inspire us by its story but some memorable lines or quotes within the narrative reflect our experiences and we remember those words for a lifetime. In fact, quotes by authors have been used in many contexts whenever we want to make a point or support our views. On this Women’s Day we bring to you, fifteen powerful quotes by authors that celebrate womanhood.

“One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” ― By Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex.

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

"I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives."― By Jane Austen in Persuasion.

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass." ―By Maya Angelou.

“Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience.”―By Mary Wollstonecraft.

“Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.” ― By Virginia Woolf in A Room of One's Own.

"I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me."―Maya Angelou.

“Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.” ―By Mary Wollstonecraft.

“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” ―By Virginia Woolf in A Room of One's Own.

“Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female — whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.”― By Simone de Beauvoir.

“It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself.”
―By Betty Friedan.

“All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.”― By Bell Hooks in All About Love: New Visions.

“We are becoming the men we wanted to marry.”―By Gloria Steinem.
“Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.” ― By Betty Friedan.
"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'." By Anna Quindlen.

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