Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

"I believe knowledge doesn’t have a gender divide. Women can use their instincts, intellects, thoughts and ideas to their advantage. Women are good team players and female bosses often make very democratic leaders. I am proud to be a woman and strongly believe that the world belongs to those who want to make a difference."

Kiran Mazumdar Shaw

Chairman and MD, Biocon

 

 

“Red Rickshaw Revolution” a three-wheeled auto-rickshaw,

 painted red to represent strength and female solidarity, ended 10-day,

1,800-kilometer (1,100-mile) journey in Mumbai from its start in Delhi;

 intended to “raise awareness about the inspirational women

 across India and share their achievements.  Additional Article

Michaela DePrince

“We're all here for a reason. We have to finish what we were meant to do, even if it is something little."

Michaela DePrince

18, American ballet dancer, born Mabinty Bangura in Sierra Leone

Rachel Naomi Remen

"Approval cannot be trusted. It can be withdrawn
at any time no matter what our track record has been.
It is as nourishing of real growth as cotton candy."

 

 

Rachel Naomi Remen, MD

Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the UCSF School of Medicine

Lucile Aurore Dupin

"Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it."

 

Lucile Aurore Dupin

French novelist and memoirist, pseudonym George Sand

Harriet Rubin

"Freedom is actually a bigger game than power.
Power is about what you can control.
Freedom is about what you can unleash.” 

Harriet Rubin

author

Raicho Hiratsuka

" Women, please let your own sun, 
your concentrated energy, 
your own submerged authentic vital power
shine out from you.
We are no longer the moon, Today we are truly the sun,
We will build shining golden cathedrals
at the top of crystal mountains, 
East of the Land of the Rising Sun.
Women, when you paint your own portrait,
do not forget to put the golden dome at
the top of your head."

Raicho Hiratsuka 

writer, journalist, political activist and pioneering Japanese feminist

(From Women's Manifesto 1911 translated by Mayumi Oda)

Christine Baranski

"I always say God should have given women one extra decade at least, especially if you want a family. You're trying to pack a lot in."

Christine Baranski

stage, screen and Emmy-winning TV actress