Audrey Hepburn:

• "Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!'"

Jane Goodall:

• "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

Aung San Suu Kyi:

• "Please use your freedom to promote ours."

Mae Jemison (First African American woman in space):

• "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."

Indira Gandhi:

• "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

J.K. Rowling:

• "It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default."

Diana Ross:

• "You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself."

Katherine Johnson (NASA mathematician):

• "We will always have STEM with us. Some things will drop out of the public eye and will go away, but there will always be science, engineering, and technology. And there will always, always be mathematics."

Betty Friedan:

• "Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength."

Serena Williams:

• "The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up."

Billie Jean King:

• "Champions keep playing until they get it right."

Mary Kom (Olympic boxer):

• "Do not say you are weak, because you are a woman."

Helen Keller:

• "Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."