Raising strong and confident daughters can seem like a tricky task today. In this world of validation via the number of followers you have on social media.
It can sometimes feel like you are fighting a losing battle when you do what you can to instill certain values into your kids but they spend most of their time out in the world that assesses them based on how they look instead of who they are.Â
Do not be discouraged. Continue to speak life into your kids. When raising strong and confident daughters, aim to encourage them with your own words but also teach them how to speak life into themselves.
One of the greatest ways you can do this is by looking at some of the strongest feminist quotes for your baby girl. Quotes about sassy daughters or calling out the confidence in your daughter can give you ideas about the kinds of things you should be saying to your girl.Â
In this article, we will look at some of the greatest feminist quotes for raising strong and confident daughters. You will also find strong quotes from celebrities. These empowering quotes will remind you of what needs to change for the sake of your daughter and why having a daughter is such a beautiful experience.
You can adopt (or adapt!) them for use for your daughter’s birthday or for Christmas too.
The best feminist quotes for your baby girlÂ
- “You are my angel, you remind me of the goodness in this world and inspire me to be the greatest version of myself.” – Steve Maraboli
- “Though we have the courage to raise our daughters more like our sons, we’ve rarely had the courage to raise our sons like our daughters.” – Gloria Steinem
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- “I don’t think about beauty. I wake up and I want to be a smarter person, that’s my focus. … I’m encouraging certainly my girls that if they can make their inside and who they are really, really stunning then everything falls together.” – Angelina Jolie
Raising strong and confident daughters means constantly shifting their focus to their character, thoughts and actions rather than their appearances because that is what the world would have them focus on.
- “If you ever feel like giving up, just remember a little girl is watching who wants to be just like you.” – Unknown
- “You may want to help your daughter understand that even famous people must overcome challenges more often than we realize.” – Michael T
- “My highest hope for her is just that she has the fearlessness to always be her authentic self, no matter what she thinks men want her to be.” – Channing Tatum
Our daughters need to be able to say out loud what they desire and be who they authentically are without fear of being shunned or ridiculed by others.
- “She’s stubborn, messy, moody and downright sassy, at times. But when I look in her eyes, I see a beautiful, perfect girl, who just needs a little time to grow up.” – Raising Teens Today
- “Girls should never be afraid to be smart.” – Emma Watson
- “It’s time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they’re sexually active.” – Jessica Valenti
This overly sexualized world puts pressure on our daughters to identify themselves by various aspects of their sexuality. Not only are girls and women assessed by whether they are sexually active, but also by how many people they are sexually active with.
- “My mom taught me a woman’s mind should be the most beautiful part of her.” Sonya Teclai
- “We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody’s.” — Kifah Shah
- “The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life the stronger the daughter.” – Anita Diamant
Raising strong and confident daughters means being honest and open with them about our own successes and failures as parents. This helps to make sure they do not repeat our mistakes but also helps them to be empathetic towards others.
- “My daughter, No matter how old you get, you will always be my baby girl.” – Unknown
- “The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.” — Barack Obama
- “To all the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful, and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.” – Hillary Clinton
- “A daughter is chiseled to chisel the world.” — Karishma Gajipara
- “If all girls were taught how to love each other fiercely instead of how to compete with each other and hate their own bodies, what a different and beautiful world we would live in.” – Nikita Gill
Girl power simply is not possible unless girls are in collaboration with each other.
- “Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.” ― Margaret Atwood
- “As for my girls, I’ll raise them to think they breathe fire.” – Jessica Kirkland
- “The wounded child inside many females is a girl who was taught from early childhood on that she must become something other than herself, deny her true feelings, in order to attract and please others.” – bell hooks
It is true that girls learn to see themselves through the eyes of others rather than through their own. Empowering our daughters requires teaching them to love themselves as they are and developing themselves without paying attention to what others say about them.
- “Little girls with dreams become women with vision.” – Unknown
- “We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters’ lengthening flight.” — Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- “Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.” – bell hooks
- “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.” – Coco Chanel
- “Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of.” ― Bethany Hamilton
Are you trying to raise an empowered and fearless young lady?
Which of these quotes for raising strong and confident daughters is your favourite?
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These are such good quotes, I wish I read them when I was young. But these would be so good to tell my daughter when I have one. I also love the idea of intentionally raising strong and confident daughters who know their worth. Great post!