Courage Quotes

"The revolutionary act is to choose love when the world teaches us to be afraid."

"When women stop accepting society's definition of them, real change begins."

"It is time for women to stop living for others and start living for themselves."

"The courage to be yourself is the greatest courage of all."

"A woman's potential should never be sacrificed for others' comfort."

"Women's rights progress depends on women willing to fight for them."

"The courage to be different is the first step toward authentic living."

"Women must refuse the role of eternal caretaker of others' needs."

"Women's complicity in their own oppression must be analyzed and overcome."

"Your silence will not protect you."

"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."

"This time, like a turning point, must be faced fearlessly and whole."

"We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid just as we have learned to work and speak in all the other emotions of daily necessity."

"We must risk being called selfish whenever we act on our own behalf."

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but action despite it."

"We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller, so it's no wonder if women end up feeling like they're not supposed to take up space."

"The most courageous thing we do in our lives is usually astonishing to no one."

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable or immensely afraid."

"The most difficult thing is the first step towards change."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you"

"Society fears women who think for themselves and act independently."

"Breaking free from tradition requires both courage and support."

"Living authentically means sometimes disappointing others' expectations."

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

"We cannot change the course of history without acting in the present."

"The struggle for justice is the struggle for the Earth."

"Indigenous resistance is environmental resistance."

"We must resist the colonization of our lands and minds."

"The more I behave like myself, the less people like me."