Happy International Women's Day | National Endowment for the Arts

Happy International Women's Day

International Women's Day isn't until Sunday, but we wanted to start the party early with a few quotes from some of our favorite female artists, past and present, from around the globe.

“I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.”

In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.

I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself,

I can recommend wearing blue mascara whilst writing. I'm telling you, it really adds something.” by Helen Oyeyemi

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.