24 Positive Quotes For Women from Movies (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 10, 2026

Famous positive quotes for women used in movies, ranked and accompanied by short MP3 and WAV soundbites.

1 Look in that mirror. You know what I see? I see a strong, confident, beautiful young lady. Oh look, you're here too.

Donna Murphy as Mother Gothel in Tangled

2 I learned that no women can live free and equal by standing silently by while huge sections of the human race were slandered and made second-class citizens.

Mary Church Terrell in Destination Freedom

3 As I was saying, I'm a woman and can't be taken for granted.

Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman in Batman Returns (1992)

4 I see no reason why a woman wouldn't do as well as a man.

Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan The Barbarian in Conan the Destroyer

5 You know, times are changing. Ladies can do stuff now. And you're gonna have to learn how to deal with that.

Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy

6 Didn't you tell me to go ahead? -A man doesn't tell a woman what to do. A woman tells herself.

Joseph Cotten as Devlin in Notorious

7 Then, father, I think hereafter I'll devote my life to being 'out of place,' to convincing most people that only when woman stands with man and demands full rights for all is she really in her place.

Mary Church Terrell in Destination Freedom

8 And since when have women with backbone allowed men to dictate who they shall hear and who they shan't? Since when?

Mary Church Terrell in Destination Freedom

9 There's no man who practices brutality towards other men who will ever practice equality with women!

Mary Church Terrell in Destination Freedom

10 The only protecting women need is protection by equality under the law. Equality of opportunities and the right to share the benefits of this land, alongside men.

Mary Church Terrell in Destination Freedom