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It’s finally the greatest day of the year! No, not Christmas or your birthday — it’s International Women’s Day. Every year on March 8, the world comes together in support of women globally and shows their dedication to gender equality. That’s some seriously powerful stuff, y’all. So, keeping in the spirit on the most empowering day of the year for women and girls everywhere, we rounded up the best quotes from Hollywood’s finest ladies to truly make you ~feel like a woman~. Thanks for that one, Shania. Scroll through the gallery to read the most powerful quotes from Hollywood’s most badass women.
“Every woman has a right not only to independence and security but to live her life to the full and to express herself to the full, including through art and ideas as well as politics,” the legendary actress, 43, said during her keynote address at the Power 100 Women in Entertainment event in 2017.
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Amandla Stenberg
“You don’t have to alter yourself to appease any type of patriarchal expectation of what you should look like. Always be in your strength, always use your voice and don’t let anyone make you quiet,” the Hunger Games actress, 20, said.
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Sarah Silverman
“We have a responsibility as women to reject this toxic drug in the air that makes us feel like the success of one woman can only come at the failure of another,” the 48-year-old comic said. “Not only is there room for all of us, but by raising each other up emotionally, artistically, in the workplace and all facets of life, we are doing something that ‘the man’ fears very much. We are becoming a force.”
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Demi Lovato
“I wish I could tell every young girl with an eating disorder, or who has harmed herself in any way, that she’s worthy of life and that her life has meaning. You can overcome and get through anything,” the 27-year-old singer said.
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Laverne Cox
“I am not just one thing, and neither are you,” the Orange Is The New Black actress, 46, famously said.
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Audrey Hepburn
The iconic Breakfast at Tiffany’s actress once said, “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says, I’m possible!”
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Madonna
The renowned 80s pop singer, 60, said, “I’m tough, I’m ambitious and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, OK.” (Papa don’t) preach, girl!
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Anne Hathaway
“A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, ‘for a man, you’re kind of ignorant,’” the 36-year-old actress said. Go, girl!
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Emma Watson
“I’m very interested in truth, in finding ways to be messy and unsure and flawed and incredible and great and my fullest self, all wrapped into one,” the Harry Potter actress, 28, said.
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Beyoncé
The legendary pop icon, 37, had some great advice: “I don’t like to gamble but if there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself.”
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Tina Fey
“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it,” the original SNL female head writer, 48, said. Amen!
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Melissa McCarthy
“Hollywood wants to make women so perfect. Perfect hair. Perfect job. Perfect manners … I know some of the most beautiful women, and they are so weird. That’s what makes them funny and captivating,” the 48-year-old comedian said.
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Emma Stone
“Confidence is the only key … I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself,” the Superbad actress, 30, said.
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Nicki Minaj
Anyone else remember these classic words from the queen of rap? “When you’re a girl, you have to be everything. You have to be dope at what you do, but you have to be super sweet, and you have to be sexy, and you have to be this and you have to be that and you have to be nice, and you have to — it’s like, I can’t be all of those things at once. I’m a human being,” the 36-year-old said.
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Janelle Monae
“I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I’m constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes,” the R&B songstress, 33, said.
