International Women's Day: Quotes To Remind You Being A Woman Is Bomb

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 Single? Girlfriends? 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.

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”