To celebrate International Womens Day we’re sharing the best fifteen quotes about women from women.

Angela Davis

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change, I am changing the things I cannot accept.

G. D. Anderson

“Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.”

Maya Yousafzai

“Extremists have shown what frightens them most: a girl with a book.”

Emma Watson

“I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes. There’s nothing wrong with being afraid. It’s not the absence of fear. It’s overcoming it. And sometimes you just have to blast through and have faith.”

Sophie Heawood

“The older I get, the more I see how women are described as having gone mad, when what they’ve actually become is knowledgeable and powerful and furious.”

Frida Kahlo

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”

Carrie Fisher

“Screw beauty, it’s superficial anyway, and my other attributes matter way more than my appearance.”

Mary Shelley

“Beware, for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

Maya Angelou

“You may not control all the evens that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”

Nikita Gill

“If all girls were taught how to love each other fiercely instead how to compete with each other and hate their own bodies, what a different and beautiful world we would live in.”

Bella Abzug

“Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.”

Michelle Obama

“The difference between a broken community and a thriving one is the presence of women who are valued.”

Calamity Jane (Doris Day)

“I figure, if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.”

Alice Walker

“No one is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.”

Margaret Atwood

“In the end, we’ll all become stories.”

Happy International Women’s Day!