Amelia Earhart Quotes

I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

Women today have the keys to the doors which have been barred against them and they will open them without asking consent.

I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

Women are such incredible people. We're so multifaceted, we're so interesting, and any opportunity to celebrate that - because there's been many years of not being able to - and expose what it's like to be female and how we can be whoever we want to be, and do whatever we want to do, is great.

Women are no longer just born to be married. We are here to compete with everyone and make a place for ourselves under the sun on our own.

We cannot succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave, to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential.

Women and girls can do whatever they want. There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish.

I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.

I think that's the great thing, ya' know, that women can do anything that they want now.

I am happy that the young girls have a lot more choices these days and an opportunity to feel better about themselves.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

Unless the woman is liberated, there is no freedom in Iraqi land.

Women will take their places beside men as partners, unafraid, useful, successful, and free

The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence.

… in an age when human rights are preached loudly from the rooftops, women had to be accepted as equals and allowed to think and act in their own interests and by their own efforts.