Day Quote by Sophie Gregoire Trudeau

Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic sense, strengthens…

— Helen Clark

Gender equality will only be reached if we are able to empower women.

— Michelle Bachelet

Some people in power prefer to stick by the oppressions that they've built up, and not give women their rights. Why do we have…

— Peaches

Whether we work in the private, public, or nonprofit sectors, International Women's Day is a time for us to think about how we can…

— Belinda Johnson

As we celebrate International Women's Day, it's not enough to applaud the contributions of women worldwide. We should also recognize and celebrate the opportunities…

— Rachel Campos-Duffy

I think that it's incredibly important that we're actually paying attention to the feminism that's going on on the ground in different countries and…

— Jessica Valenti

“In order to gain gender equality, women and men must work together, equally, to teach our daughters and sons to embrace our differences, respect…

— Basia Christ

I believe that feminism needs to teach more girls about how to make institutional changes and how to further engage men and boys into…

— Marley Dias

“Shouting about gender equality once a year doesn't end the patriarchal and misogynistic stereotypes. We must live every day as women's day, only then…

— Abhijit Naskar

We're evolving as a culture as well and as more equality gets supplanted in society, well, in the U.S. anyway, it's only helping women.…

— Barbara Crampton

“Our planet is about ... billions of years old. So far, the earliest finds of modern human skeletons come from Africa, which date to…

— Nadja Sam

Personally, I don't believe in International Women's Day. After all, there's no International Men's Day that we celebrate. These are just titles like Happy…

— Shobana