Simak, 50 Quote Inspiratif di Hari Perempuan Internasional dari Para Tokoh Dunia Ini

JAKARTA, KalderaNews.com – Hari Perempuan Internasional atau International Women’s Day (IWD) diperingati setiap 8 Maret. Hari Perempuan Internasional diawali pada tahun 1908.

Adanya penindasan pada kaum perempuan mendorong mereka untuk lebih vokal dalam menyuarakan perubahan. Ada sebanyak 15 ribu perempuan di New York City yang menuntut jam kerja yang lebih pendek, gaji yang lebih baik, dan hak suara.

Tahun 1910 saat Konferensi Wanita Buruh Internasional kedua diadakan di Kopenhagen, seorang wanita bernama Clara Zetkin yang merupakan Pemimpin Kantor Wanita untuk Partai Sosial Demokrat di Jerman, mengajukan gagasan mengenai Hari Perempuan Internasional. Saran Clara Zetkin disetujui.

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Hari Perempuan Internasional pun dirayakan untuk pertama kalinya di Austria, Denmark, Jerman, dan Swiss, pada 1911.

Pada dasarnya Hari Perempuan Internasional mengkampanyekan hak perempuan untuk bekerja, memilih, dilatih, untuk memegang jabatan publik, dan mengakhiri diskriminasi. Tahun ini, IWD mengangkat tema #ChooseToChallenge.

Nah, untuk merayakan Hari Perempuan Internasional, tak ada salahnya merefleksikan quote-quote inspiratif terkait perempuan dari para tokoh dunia berikut ini :

1. If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman. (Margaret Thatcher)
2. We realize the importance of our voice when we are silenced. (Malala Yousafzai)
3. Sometimes it’s the princess who kills the dragon and saves the prince. (Samuel Lowe)
4. Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world. (Hillary Clinton)
5. She’s everything; even when she’s treated like nothing. (R.H. Sin)
6. She remembered who she was and the game changed. (Lalah Deliah)
7. I expect woman will be the last thing civilized by man. (George Meredith)
8. 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)
9. Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. (Oprah Winfrey)
10. There’s nothing a man can do that I can’t do better and in heels. (Ginger Rogers)
11. Girls should never be afraid to be smart. (Emma Watson)
12. Above all, be the heroine of your life. Not the victim. (Nora Ephron)
13. A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. (Melinda Gates)
14. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. (Margaret Fuller)
15. Life is tough, my darling, but so are you. (Stephanie Bennett-Henry)
16. If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. (Katherine Hepburn)
17. 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)
18. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others. (Amelia Earhart)
19. Strong back. Soft front. Wild heart. Just be you. (Brene Brown)
20. A woman should be like a single flower—not a whole bouquet. (Anna Held)
21. Females are strong as hell.” (The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
22. There is no force more powerful than a woman determined to rise. (W.E.B. Dubois)
23. Nothing can dim the light which shines from within. (Maya Angelou)
24. 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)
25. I can and I will. Watch me. (Carrie Green)
26. There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish. (Michelle Obama)
27. There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself. (Hannah Gadsby)
28. Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. (Gloria Steinem)
29. The most beautiful thing a woman can wear is confidence. (Blake Lively)
30. A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t. (Rhonda Hansome)
31. Well-behaved women rarely make history. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
32. A charming woman doesn’t follow the crowd; she is herself. (Loretta Young)
33. The best protection any woman can have is courage. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
34. Where there is a woman, there is magic. (Ntozake Shange)
35. A girl should be two things: Who and what she wants. (Coco Chanel)
36. The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
37. What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don’t have is just love what we do have. (Cameron Diaz)
38. In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
39. Women are made to be loved, not understood. (Oscar Wilde)
40. She was a wild one. Always stomping on eggshells that everyone else tip-toed on. (Kaitlin Foster)
41. She’s a badass with a good heart. Soft but strong. Unapologetic and honest. She’s the type of woman you go to war beside; the type of woman you marry. (R.H. Sin)
42. She has been through hell, so believe me when I say, fear her when she looks into fire and smiles. (E. Corona)
43. Yes, she knows pain, but she is strong. Her heart knows no other way. (A.R. Asher)
44. She wore her scars as her best attire. A stunning dress made of hellfire. (Daniel Saint)
45. She never seemed shattered to me; she was a breathtaking mosaic of battles she’s won. (Matt Baker)
46. 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)
47. 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)
48. Women’s value has been under-recognized for far too long. (Sidney Sheldon)
49. Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them. (Michael Hutchence)
50. I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves. (Mary Shelley)

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