200+ Inspiring International Women’s Day Quotes

The perfect International Women’s Day quotes (see the official website here) celebrate the hurdles we have vaulted over while recognizing that there are still challenges to overcome. Our job is to let both these realities exist at once—to know that while celebration is definitely in order, there is still so much work to be done. If you’re looking for a boost of inspiration, motivation, or you just want to celebrate womanhood in all its forms, we’ve got the ultimate list of powerful International Women’s Day quotes, just for you.

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What do you say on International Women's Day?

Let’s start with what to actually say on International Women’s Day. We’re keen to make “Happy International Women’s Day” every bit as common as “Merry Christmas” or “Happy New Year”, so this IWD, why not share the love and greet everyone with “Happy Women’s Day!”.

Can you say happy International Women's day?

Yes, you certainly can! International Women’s Day is a day to focus on our challenges as women, but also to celebrate our successes. Happy International Women’s Day!

Social media post ideas for International Women’s Day

If you’re more into online interactions than in-person, show your solidarity with an International Women’s Day social media post. Here are some ideas to get you started:

• Happy International Women's Day!
• Who run the world? 👸
• Sisters, let’s join in solidarity 👭
• Stronger together! 💪
• It’s time to #GiveToGain 🤝
• Celebrate your power today #IWD

Strong woman quotes

Strength doesn’t always look like being loud or fearless. Sometimes it’s getting up again, setting boundaries, or choosing yourself when it would be easier not to. These strong woman quotes celebrate the kind of resilience women live out every single day.

1. “She wasn’t looking for a knight. She was looking for a sword.” – Atticus
2. “Life is tough, my darling, but so are you.” – Stephanie Bennett-Henry
3. “I've never been interested in being invisible and erased.” ‒ Laverne Cox
4. “A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink.” – Gina Carey
5. “These walls that they put up to hold us back will fall down. It's a revolution, the time will come for us to finally win.” ‒ Taylor Swift
6. “I belong nowhere and to no one.” ‒ Waris Dirie
7. “Feminism isn’t about making women stronger. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.” — G.D. Anderson
8. “She overcame everything that was meant to destroy her.” – Rumi
9. “It’s okay if you fall down and lose your spark. Just make sure that when you get back up, you rise as the whole damn fire.” – Colette Werden
10. “And one day she discovered that she was fierce and strong and full of fire, and that not even she could hold herself back, because her passion burned brighter than her fears.” – Mark Anthony
11. “Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.” ‒ Jennifer Lopez
12. “Women are powerful and dangerous.” ‒ Audre Lorde
13. “Eventually you just have to realize that you’re living for an audience of one. I’m not here for anyone else’s approval.” ‒ Pamela Anderson
14. “There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.” ‒ Hannah Gadsby
15. “It’s very important not to keep silent.” ‒ Pussy Riot
16. “My f**king voice is gonna be heard.” ‒ Miley Cyrus
17. “I’m over trying to find the ‘adorable’ way to state my opinion.” ‒ Jennifer Lawrence
18. “She has been through hell, so believe me when I say, fear her when she looks into fire and smiles.” – E. Corona
19. “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
20. “There is no force more powerful than a woman determined to rise.” – W.E.B. Dubois
21. “She wore her scars as her best attire. A stunning dress made of hellfire.” – Daniel Saint
22. “Then I will speak upon the ashes.” ‒ Sojourner Truth
23. “REBIRTH shows an opportunity for growth and healing through divine feminine energy. Can’t we grow together?” ‒ Dylan Mulvaney
24. “She never seemed shattered to me; she was a breathtaking mosaic of battles she’s won.” – Matt Baker
25. “The world needs strong women who will lift and build others. Who will love and be loved. Women who live bravely, both tender and fierce; women of indomitable will.” – Amy Tenney

26. “Strong women don’t have ‘attitudes’, we have standards.” — Marilyn Monroe
27. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ‒ Oprah
28. “A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.” – Melinda Gates
29. “I don’t need to be saved. I’m my own person. I’m strong.” ‒ Miley Cyrus
30. “Sometimes it’s the princess who kills the dragon and saves the prince.” – Samuel Lowe
31. “I am proud of the woman I am today because I went through one hell of a time to become her.” – Elise Portugal
32. “I'm actually thrilled with the woman I'm turning out to be.” ‒ Katherine Ryan
33. “She is strong, but not in the ways most people think. She loves more than she’ll ever get back and she knows it, yet she loves anyway.” – J.M. Storm
34. “You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.” – Ain Eineziz
35. “Yes, she knows pain, but she is strong. Her heart knows no other way.” – A.R. Asher
36. “Like anything learned, bravery needs to be practiced.” ‒ Caroline Paul
37. “Her soul is fierce, her heart is brave, her mind is strong.” – r.h. Sin
38. “She was a true fighter; you could see it in her eyes. She wasn’t born strong, she was made strong. She was sculpted to be her own when the world let her down and she kept picking herself back up.” – Lynn Tilton
39. “When I dare to be powerful — to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” – Audre Lorde
40. “A strong woman builds her own world. She is one who is wise enough to know that it will attract the man she will gladly share it with.” – Ellen J. Barrier
41. “She was a wild one. Always stomping on eggshells that everyone else tip-toed on.” – Kaitlin Foster
42. “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who’s going to stop me.” – Ayn Rand
43. “A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everyone else.” – Grigor Dimitrov
44. “I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story—I will.” — Amy Schumer
45. “We all have a ‘Wonder Woman’ inside of us.” – Shally Zomorodi
46. “You can always tell who the strong women are. They are the ones you see building one another up instead of tearing each other down.” – Unknown
47. “A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.” — Marge Piercy
48. “A strong woman can also be vulnerable. Just because there’s a crack in your armor, don’t doubt your strength for one moment.” – Unknown
49. “She looked back on her life and realized that everything that happened only made her stronger.” – Unknown
50. “There’s something about a woman with a loud mind that sits in silence, smiling, knowing she can crush you with the truth.” – R.G. Moon
51. “We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined, they can be free.” — Kavita Ramdas
52. “I don't know a woman alive who isn't courageous.” ‒ Reese Witherspoon
53. “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” – Nora Ephron
54. “You cannot be broken because you are a diamond, tougher than nails and a jewel in the rough.” – Unknown

55. “I think women are very powerful and I think we’re more powerful together than separate.” ‒ Zendaya
56. “She’s a strong cup of black coffee in a world that is drunk on the cheap wine of shallow love.” – J. M. Storm
57. “There's something so special about a woman who dominates in a man's world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness and the nerve to never take no for an answer.” ‒ Rihanna
58. “The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself, and shine amongst those who never believed she could.” – Unknown
59. “There’s a certain standard women are held to because...I don’t know. So many women nowadays are so loud about it. We need to cause a bit of uproar, because I’ve seen it. I’ve experienced it. It’s absurd.” ‒ Selena Gomez
60. “You don’t have to play masculine to be a strong woman.” – Mary Elizabeth Winstead
61. “The best protection any woman can have is courage.” – Elizabeth Cady Stanton
62. “No woman should be told she can't make decisions about her own body. When women's rights are under attack, we fight back.” – Kamala Harris
63. “Some days, she has no idea how she’ll do it. But every single day, it still gets done.” – Unknown
64. “I'm so sick of running as fast as I can, wondering if I'd get there quicker if I was a man.” — Taylor Swift
65. “Power’s not given to you. You have to take it.” — Beyoncé
66. “Things will never get better if you believe they won't.” ‒ Katie Piper
67. “Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.” ‒ Seneca
68. “Women make up more than half of the world's population and potential, so it is neither just nor practical for their voices, for our voices, to go unheard at the highest levels of decision-making.” ‒ Meghan Markle
69. “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.” or “Don’t let the bastards get you down.” ‒ Margaret Atwood
70. “Some women fear the fire. Some women simply become it.” – R.H. Sin
71. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.” – Helen Keller
72. “Yes, you have been broken. But girl, you know how to work it.” ‒ Sophie Thakur
73. “Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.” – Unknown

Funny International Women's Day quotes

Because sometimes the best way to get through life is to laugh at it. These funny International Women’s Day quotes bring a little wit, sass, and “yep, been there” energy — perfect for sharing, saving, or sending to your group chat.

74. “A girl should be two things: Who and what she wants.” – Coco Chanel
75. “There’s nothing a man can do that I can’t do better and in heels.” – Ginger Rogers
76. “Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress.” – Kiera Cass
77. “Feisty women are my calling!” ‒ Florence Pugh
78. “Females are strong as hell.” – The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

79. “Well-behaved women rarely make history.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
80. “Know what your worth is and then add tax to that amount.” – Unknown
81. “Sometimes it takes balls to be a woman.” – Elizabeth Cook
82. “Here is the quick way of working out if you’re a feminist. Put your hand in your pants. a) Do you have a vagina? And b) Do you want to be in charge of it? If you said ‘yes to both, then congratulations! You’re a feminist.” ‒ Caitlin Moran
83. “Men are fantastic ‒ as a concept.” ‒ Jo Brand
84. “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” – Katherine Hepburn
85. “I am a woman, what’s your superpower?” – Unknown
86. “Never ever mistake her silence for weakness. Remember that sometimes the air stills before the onset of a hurricane.” – Nikita Gill
87. “A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.” – Rhonda Hansome

Motivational quotes for International Women's Day

Whether you’re chasing a goal, finding your footing, or just trying to get through the week, a few good words can go a long way. These motivational International Women’s Day quotes are here to hype you up, remind you of your power, and help you keep going.

88. “She promised better things for herself, so she sought out those things and never looked back.” – Unknown
89. “Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
90. “There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” – Michelle Obama
91. “Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be; embrace who you are.” – Brené Brown
92. “To tell a woman everything she cannot do is to tell her what she can.” – Spanish Proverb
93. “Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women’s denigration of themselves.” ‒ Betty Friedan
94. “Stand-up comedy is not a man's job. It's an alpha job: to be the only person in a room with a microphone who's allowed to talk.” ‒ Katherine Ryan
95. “Your life isn’t yours if you constantly care what others think.” – Unknown
96. “All of us are put in boxes by our family, by our religion, by our society, our moment in history, even our own bodies. Some people have the courage to break free.” – Geena Rocero
97. “The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you’re very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.” — Serena Williams
98. “Stop waiting to find the light at the end of the tunnel and be the light for yourself.” – Unknown
99. “Ignore the glass ceiling and do your work. If you’re focusing on the glass ceiling, focusing on what you don’t have, focusing on the limitations, then you will be limited.” — Ava DuVernay
100. “To all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful, and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.” — Hillary Clinton
101. “Women hold up the world.” ‒ Akilah Hughes

102. “Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.” ‒ Susan B. Anthony
103. “One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.” — Marilyn Monroe
104. “I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind learning.” — Amy Poehler
105. “Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow you to the ends of the earth, you are a great leader.” ‒ Indra Nooyi
106. “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Deliah
107. “Collaborate, don’t compete.” ‒ Olivia Perez
108. “Call me whatever you want. It’s not going to stop me from trying to do the right thing. Because it doesn’t just affect me, it affects all the other women who are in this with me, and it affects all the other men who are in this with me, too.” — Emma Watson
109. “When the world tells you to shrink, expand.” – Elaine Welteroth
110. “There is always light. Only if we are brave enough to see it. There is always light. Only if we are brave enough to be it.” – Amanda Gorman
111. “You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.” – Aung San Suu Kyi
112. “I can encourage the women who are striving to get their footing in the world to keep pushing and to express themselves.” ‒ Angela Yee
113. “Don’t mistake politeness for lack of strength.” – Sonia Sotomayor
114. “I believe in giving girls a chance to activate their potential without fear.” ‒ Chimwemwe Chiweza
115. “Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention.” — P!nk
116. “Don’t think about making women fit the world — think about making the world fit women.” — Gloria Steinem
117. “A woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and herself only.” — Maya Angelou
118. “Sexism isn't a one-size-fits-all phenomenon. It doesn't happen to black and white women the same way.” ‒ Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
119. “She has a voice. If you can’t hear it, it’s because you’re too busy talking.” ‒ Amani Al-Khatahtbeh
120. “Women are leaders everywhere you look—from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women, and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.” — Nancy Pelosi
121. “Women are the real architects of society.” – Cher
122. “Women that believe in each other can survive anything. Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars.” — Nikita Gill

123. “I am a woman and I get to define what that means.” ‒ Swati Sharma
124. “You have just one life to live. It is yours. Own it, claim it, live it, do the best you can with it.” ‒ Hillary Clinton
125. “Women have discovered that they cannot rely on men’s chivalry to give them justice.” — Helen Keller
126. “Behind every successful woman, is herself.” – Bart Jackson
127. “We are here not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.” — Emmeline Pankhurst
128. “I want every girl to know that her voice can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai
129. “A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” — Diane Mariechild
130. “I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” — Georgia O’Keeffe
131. “Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is most important.” — Junko Tabei
132. “If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.” – Margaret Fuller
133. “Be free, be fierce, but most of all, have fun while being a feminist.” ‒ Nimco Ali
134. “As soon as I had enough agency in my life to grow up, I became who I am.” ‒ Janet Mock
135. “When women support each other, incredible things happen.” – Unknown
136. “Take the wisdoms of the women in this world and keep them at your side, always.” ‒ Beanie Feldstein
137. “You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty.” ‒ Lady Gaga
138. “Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” – Amelia Earhart
139. “You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female.’” — Erin McKean
140. “We cannot solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis. … And if solutions within the system are so impossible to find, then maybe we should change the system itself.” — Greta Thunberg
141. “Girls are capable of doing everything men are capable of doing. Sometimes they have more imagination than men.” — Katherine Johnson
142. “We are the breathing, living manifestations of the hopes of women who are not breathing anymore. We must hope for ourselves, our daughters, and the women a hundred years from now. We are the thing with feathers and now we must spread our wings and fly.” ‒ Deborah Frances-White
143. “you must enter a relationship / with yourself / before anyone else” ‒ Rupi Kaur
144. “Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.” – Michael Hutchence
145. “She believed she could, so she did.” – R. S. Grey
146. “Do not ever sell yourself short.” ‒ Jameela Jamil
147. “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” – Oprah Winfrey
148. “What’s the greatest lesson a woman should learn? That since day one, she’s already had everything she needs within herself. It’s the world that convinced her she did not.” – Rupi Kaur
149. “If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.” – Dolly Parton
150. “Women’s history is bigger than one person, so the way we talk about the past needs to be, as well.” ‒ Alice Wroe

151. “I may be wearing makeup, but I can throw a fastball by you at the same time.” — Jennie Finch
152. “Don’t look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.” — Anne Lamott
153. “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” — Audre Lorde
154. “After all those years as a woman hearing, ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not thin enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I am enough.’” – Anna Quindlen
155. “In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger
156. “I can and I will. Watch me.” – Carrie Green
157. “I'd rather regret the risk that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take at all.” – Simone Biles
158. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” — Jane Goodall
159. “I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say ‘yes, women can.’” — Dilma Rousseff

160. “Where there is a woman, there is magic.” – Ntozake Shange
161. “If you have a dream, make it a goal.” – Nike
162. “Always be a first-rate version of yourself instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” ‒ Judy Garland
163. “I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.” — Arianna Huffington
164. “I raise up my voice — not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.… We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.” — Malala Yousafzai
165. “Women’s value has been under-recognized for far too long.” – Sidney Sheldon
166. “I will always be the girl who believed she could make it to the moon, in a world that still debates whether girls should have an education and whether women should have reproductive rights.” ‒ Alaa Murabit
167. “The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it.” – Kalpana Chawla
168. “Little girls with dreams become women with vision.” – Unknown
169. “Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.” – Gloria Steinem
170. “Don’t stop until you’re proud.” – Unknown
171. “Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you.” ‒ Viola Davis
172. “The most important thing one woman can do for another is expand her sense of actual possibilities.” ‒ Adrienne Rich
173. “We earn our optimism. We earn our hope.” ‒ Chloe Wade
174. “I'm so excited to watch the next generation of teenage feminists make their mark on the world because I truly believe they're going to achieve extraordinary things.” ‒ Scarlett Curtis*
175. “Be the woman you needed as a girl.” – Jayne Moore
176. “Extremists have shown what frightens them most: A girl with a book.” Malala Yousafzai

177. “This is our time to change the system. This is our time to change the world.” ‒ Alison Sudol
178. “I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.” – Mary Shelley
179. "Self-definition and self-determination is about the many varied decisions that we make to compose and journey toward ourselves... It’s OK if your personal definition is in a constant state of flux as you navigate the world." ‒ Janet Mock
180. “I lead from the heart, not the head.” – Princess Diana
181. “Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.” – Yuri Kochiyama
182. “Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.” – Maya Angelou
183. “A successful woman is one who can build a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at her.” – Dwarkesh Rabari
184. “The most beautiful thing a woman can wear is confidence.” – Blake Lively
185. “I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.” – Carolina Herrera
186. “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” ‒ Angela Y. Davis
187. “We live the hopes of the suffragettes and the demands of Maya Angelou.” ‒ Deborah Frances-White
188. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” – Mother Teresa
189. “Every woman’s success should be an inspiration to another. We’re strongest when we cheer each other on.” – Serena Williams
190. “I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.” – Madonna
191. “You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.” ‒ Marsha P. Johnson
192. “The effects of your actions may unfold in ways you cannot foresee or even imagine. They may unfold long after your death.” ‒ Rebecca Solnit
193. “One is not born a woman, one becomes one.” – Simone De Beauvoir
194. “Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.” ‒ Tina Fey
195. “If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.” ‒ Toni Morrison
196. “We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes ‒ understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” ‒ Arianna Huffington
197. “Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.” ‒ Coretta Scott King

198. “At a time when we are all too often being reminded of what divides us, there is common ground to be found when we share our stories.” ‒ Emma Watson
199. “I know what I bring to the table… So trust me when I say I’m not afraid to eat alone.” – Unknown
200. “We don’t have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to.” ‒ Brené Brown
201. “We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.” – Beyoncé
202. “A charming woman doesn’t follow the crowd; she is herself.” – Loretta Young
203. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” – Rosa Parks
204. “Real queens fix each other’s crowns.” – Jane Cedenberger
205. “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” — Maya Angelou
206. “Why not you? If you see something you don’t believe in or that you disagree with, why can’t you be the person to change it?” ‒ Michelle Kennedy

What is the motto of Women’s Day?

The 2026 theme of International Women’s Day is “Give to Gain”. #GiveToGain and #IWD2026 will connect you to the event on social media. There are lots of missions for International Women’s Day 2026 ‒ after all, there’s a lot we as a society can do to embrace equity:

• To elevate women forging change via technology and sustainability in communities, workplaces, and beyond.
• To celebrate the work of women creatives and elevate visibility for commercial projects and commissions.
• To forge inclusive work cultures where women's careers thrive and their achievements are celebrated.
• To elevate and advance gender parity in technology and celebrate the women forging innovation.
• To shine a spotlight on activity uplifting and inspiring women to pursue goals without bias or barrier.
• To assist women to be in a position of power to make informed decisions about their health.
• To celebrate women athletes and applaud when equality is achieved in pay, sponsorship and visibility.

What color do you wear on International Women's Day?

Generally, purple is the color that’s worn on International Women’s Day, signifying loyalty, constance, and unswerving steadfastness.

What is the symbol of Women's Day?

The symbol of Venus (♀️) represents International Women’s Day. But as the day also represents people who have lived a female experience ‒ in all of its forms ‒ the purple heart (💜) is becoming more well-known.

Which flower symbolizes Women's Day?

There are a few different flowers that represent International Women’s Day:

• Mimosa: To signify strength, sensibility, and sensitivity.
• Cosmos: The purple variety of this flower represents the universal input of women.
• Pansy: The term “pansy” has been used as a derogatory term for those who are seen as ‘too feminine’, so we think the pansy reclaims that femininity.
• Orchid: Representing the female reproductive organs.
• Roses: Another flower representing femininity. Bonus points if you can get your hands on super-rare purple roses!

When is the next International Women’s Day?

International Women’s Day is held every year on March 8th. The next International Women’s Day will be on Sunday, March 8th 2026.

What is the best message for Women’s Day?

Happy International Women’s Day quotes should be authentic—and certainly beyond lip service and cliche. And that means finding words that really speak to you. But one of our all-time favorites has to be:

“Here’s to strong women: May we know them. May we be them. May we raise them.”