GirlsGuideTo | International Women’s Day: 12 Quotes From Women We Love

Happy International Women’s Day! Today is a day to empower yourself and the lovely ladies around you and is an occasion to praise women for their accomplishments around the world. Some countries even give us girls a holiday! So before you use your feminine wiles and head out to happy hour early (Thanks Boss!), take a few moments and read some wise words from ladies we all know and love.

1. A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

2. Gentleness doesn't get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

Coco Chanel

3. Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
Oprah Winfrey

4. Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.

Lady Gaga

5. I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Audrey Hepburn

6. Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
GloriaSteinem

7. Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

Ella Fitzgerald

8. If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

Margaret Thatcher

9. Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Timothy Leary

10. The trouble with some women is they get all excited about nothing - and then they marry him.

Cher

11. You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

Tina Fey, Bossypants

12. God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.

Farrah Fawcett

Here’s to you lovely GGTo readers! Go put on that lipstick you love (or try on red and really support thecause) and celebrate being you--There’s no one else who could do it better.