Do you ever feel like you’re not good enough? Like someone else could do it better than you? If so, you’re not alone. Every girl has felt that way at some point in her life. But don’t worry, we’ve collected some empowering quotes from strong women to help remind you that you are capable and amazing just the way you are.

1. I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self–confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make–up until I went to Los Angeles. — Pamela Anderson
2. He had never met a girl who shot an arrow straighter than Cupid did — Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams
3. I’m in love with my corporate girlfriend, with the Cyclops heart — Phil Volatile, White Wedding Lies, and Discontent: An American Love Story
4. I refuse to give energy to the negative. I’ve got a great fella and two great little girls. — Melissa McCarthy
5. The most repulsive thing you could ever imagine is the inside of a camel’s mouth. That and watching a girl eat octopus or squid. — Marlon Brando
6. All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class–which wasn’t such a bad deal. — Sylvia Earle
7. I like to think of myself as the girl that no one can get, that no one can keep in their hand. — Miley Cyrus
8. I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream. — Victoria Principal
9. It would always be that way for me, too. I would always love this fragile human girl, for the rest of my limitless existence. — Stephenie Meyer
10. I don’t want to do anything. I don’t even want to start this day because then I’ll just be expected to finish it. — Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
11. No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being. — Sarah Addison Allen, The Girl Who Chased the Moon
12. In real life, too, women love to be that girl who tames the bad boy. — Nazanin Boniadi
13. I am the ultimate California girl, which is funny, being that I’m Canadian. — Pamela Anderson
14. An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy. — Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
15. I’m single… if girls like me, hey, that’s great. I think that’s awesome. — Scott Eastwood
16. I’d rather lose both my eyes than see you walk away from me, girl. — Rod Stewart
17. I met the girl who works at the Doubletree front desk, she gave me her number. It’s ZERO. I tried to call from here, some other woman answered. ‘You sound older! — Mitch Hedberg
18. The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That’s the little girl in me that will never grow up. — Naomi Watts
19. When I was younger, I was so damn pretty, I looked like a girl, so I understand why guys didn’t like me. — Paul Walker
20. As a country and as a world, we are not comfortable with women in leadership roles. We call little girls bossy. — Sheryl Sandberg
21. I get accused all the time of having a bigmouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do. — Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City
22. Dost thou understand? I love thee!’ he cried again. ‘What love!’ said the unhappy girl with a shudder. He resumed, ––’The love of a damned soul. — Victor Hugo
23. Brother says he’s telling about you playing Doctor with that girl. — Stevie Wonder
24. I’m more of a guy’s girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don’t bicker or sit down and do my nails. — Zoe Saldana
25. I embrace, I veritably hug and cuddle, the concept of optimism. It is the core of my approach to my existence. — Shane Peacock, Vanishing Girl
26. It still remains as the best moment of my sex life…. touching and feeling the bosoms of a girl for the first time is an experience with no near rival. — Nikhil Bhardwaj, O Amor
27. People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I’m kind of a pervert. — Michelle Branch
28. I learned to fall down early in life–I was like six–because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh. — Matthew Perry
29. Pride doesn’t go before a fall, it keeps you from falling. — Shane Peacock, Vanishing Girl
30. I would only date a 15 year old high school girl. — Seth Rogen
31. A lovely girl gazing at the stars, and the stars who gazed back. — Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
32. It’s like a woman’s birthright to knit. It’s primal. It’s timeless. You don’t need electricity to knit. You can do it with a candle, girls! — Tracey Ullman
33. I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they’re overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful. — Tori Amos
34. To be unbroken, what would that be?If words that were spoken, had not shattered me — ZOEgirl, Zoegirl–Different Kind of Free
35. I feel I am the perfect lover, because I love equally all beautiful girls. — M.F. Moonzajer
36. She wasn’t just a B–girl, she was carrying the whole ugly world in her eyes. — Megan Abbott, Die a Little
37. As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe–in–values–and–principals sort of girl. — Priyanka Chopra
38. Development is better than Girl–friend — Samy Mar Boy
39. Nothing humbles a beautiful woman better than not being wanted by a man whose girlfriend or wife is ugly (or not as beautiful as she is). — Mokokoma Mokhonoana
40. Girls have girl/guy relationships because we are expected to be so emotional and sensitive and stuff, and sometimes you just don’t feel like being that way. — Natalie Portman
41. My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl. So I was between the only girl and the crippled guy. I was the middle guy. — Tracy Morgan
42. You don’t talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages. — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
43. Sometimes it’s best to let your opponent think he has control. — Rae Carson, The Girl of Fire and Thorns
44. Ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves. — Washington Irving
45. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
46. ‘i’m just a wretched half–blood girl caught in a storm.”Akil tasted his wine and smiled. ”Muse, you are the storm.’ — Pippa DaCosta, Darkest Before Dawn
47. …when we really connect with who God is… we will find He is better than anything we could ever imagine… — Shelley Hitz, 21 Teen Devotionals…For Girls!
48. I WAS YOUNG!! I WAS STUPID.. YOU TOLD ME GIRLS BOUGHT THAT MAGAZINE!! — Shawn Michaels
49. She blinks up at me, eyes unfocused, and grooves crease her forehead. ‘Where did you go, gorgeous girl? — Pam Godwin, Dark Notes
50. …losing a friend is like losing a language, and I miss the one we spoke together. — Megan Crane, Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume