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Go, ladies!

Today is International Women’s Day, and there are a number of ways you can celebrate it. You can listen to your favorite women artists (there a number of playlists that have been made by streaming services to give women their just due today). You can watch a movie or show led by ladies (Living SingleGirlfriends? The Favourite?). You can make a concerted effort to speak out about women’s issues in the fight for women’s rights. Or what about just celebrating by being, as Joseline Hernandez would say, the bad lil boosh that you are?

One way we’re choosing to observe the day (aside from showing love to working moms) is by seeking out quotes by amazing women about the power of women and the importance of embracing our voice and greatness. Feel free to share your own favorite quotes by your favorite women in the comments. In the mean time though, check out just a few of the many we love by hitting the flip.

2018 Black Girls Rock! - Show

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Phylicia Rashad

“Any time women come together with a collective intention, it’s a powerful thing. Whether it’s sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.”

Toni Morrison

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Toni Morrison

“A good man is a good thing, but there is nothing in the world better than a good good woman. She can be your mother, your wife, your girlfriend, your sister, or somebody you work next to. Don’t matter. You find one, stay there.”

Coretta Scott King at Mandela's Inauguration

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Coretta Scott King

“The woman power of this nation can be the power which makes us whole and heals the rotten community, now so shattered by war and poverty and racism. I have great faith in the power of women who will dedicate themselves whole-heartedly to the task of remaking our society.”

2018 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Hosted By Radhika Jones - Arrivals

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Zendaya Coleman

“I am Hollywood’s acceptable version of a Black girl and that has to change. We’re vastly too beautiful and too interesting for me to be the only representation of that.”

VH1 Trailblazer Honors - Arrivals

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Ava DuVernay

“Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we want. We’ve been really indoctrinated with this culture of permission. I think it’s true for women, and I think it’s true for people of color. It’s historic, and it’s unfortunate and has somehow become part of our DNA. But that time has passed.”

61st Annual GRAMMY Awards - Arrivals

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Jada Pinkett Smith

“I think, as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise our daughters to be the women they want to be – not the women we think they should be.”

P&G, Global Citizen, ANA #SheIsEqual Summit

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Bozoma Saint John

“Don’t let the myths make you believe that women don’t support other women.”

Final Preparations For 2018 Frankfurt Book Fair

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.”

The 61st Annual Grammy Awards

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Cardi B

“But being a feminist is real simple; it’s that a woman can do things the same as a man. Anything a man can do, I can do. I can finesse, I can hustle. We have the same freedom. I was top of the charts. I’m a woman and I did that. I do feel equal to a man.”

Vanity Fair Oscar Party 2019 - Post Party Arrivals

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Angela Bassett

“I try to impart to my daughter and my son [the knowledge that], we’re mind, body and soul; we’re spirit. The most important thing is, if it doesn’t feel right, that we’re able to utter ‘No, stop, can’t do it.’ Especially women: we want to please, we don’t want to be rude, we don’t want people to think ill of us, but you have to trust your voice.”