International Women's Day is a great opportunity to share some feminine inspiration with these quotes by women who are and have made a difference.

Share these quotes with your friends, use them to inspire yourself on the tough days and even write them in a friendship card.

Here are more than 50 quotes by women for sharing and to inspire:

They used to give us a day--it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of the Woman. Then from 1975 to 1985 they gave us a decade, the Decade of the Woman. I said at the time, who knows, if we behave they may let us into the whole thing. Well, we didn't behave and here we are. - Bella Abzug

Independence is happiness. - Susan B. Anthony

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. - Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Women are the real architects of society - Harriet Beecher Stowe

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more. - Colleen McCullough

And it actually gave me an identity and an understanding of what being a woman is, which also was not submissive or obedient. - Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afsha

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher

If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names. - Elaine Gill

Politics must not remain a bastion of male dominance, for there is much that women can bring into politics that would make our world a kinder, gentler place for humanity to thrive in. - Corazon Aquino

Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother. - - Susan B. Anthony

A celebrity name is never enough for an intelligent mass market, ... truly successful businesses are born of passion and heartfelt interest. - Elle Macpherson

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. - Eleanor Roosevelt

If a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to Yes, she ought to say No, directly. - Jane Austen

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. - Melinda Gates

The fastest way to change society is to mobilise the women of the world. - Charles Malik

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. We want an equal share in government and we mean to get it.- Bella Abzug

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. Faith Whittlesey

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start drooping. - Cindy Crawford

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever. - Nancy Kerrigan

Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow in my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the President's spouse. I wish him well! - Barbara Bush

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers - Margaret Sanger

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural size. - Virginia Woolf

The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that ... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves. - Louise Otto

All of the men on my staff can type. - Bella Abzug

It has often been said that Marcos was the first male chauvinist to underestimate me. - Corazon Aquino

Being sexy doesn't mean you shouldn't be safe. - Dannii Minogue

Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood. - Louisa May Alcott

Men who treat women as helpless and charming playthings deserve women who treat men as delightful and generous bank accounts. - Anon

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. - Virginia Woolf

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things. - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Everyone has bad stretches and real successes. Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident. - Nancy Kerrigan

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. Timothy Leary

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacation-less class. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. - Oprah Winfrey

A charming woman doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself. - Loretta Young

One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. - Jane Austen

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. - Oprah Winfrey

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

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us. - Louisa May Alcott

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil. - Hannah Arendt

Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. - Nancy Kerrigan

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. - Rudyard Kipling

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. - Elizabeth Arden

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. - Frida Kahlo

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? - Linda Ellerbee

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity. - Gandhi

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it. - Oprah Winfrey

For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time. - Isabel Allende

I pick good women, but I haven't had any luck with my men. - Elizabeth Arden

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not - Dinah Shore

The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Resolve to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her. - Louisa May Alcott

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself. - Dame Nellie Melba