Quick Background?
Women’s History Month is a month all about honoring, recognizing and celebrating the women who impact our lives in every way. It helps highlight the ongoing struggle for gender equality and helps educate the public about women’s contributions to culture, politics, science, and society as a whole.
The actual celebration of Women’s History Month began as a weeklong event in 1978, organized by the school district of Sonoma, California, to recognize women’s contributions in our culture, history and society. A few years later, the idea gained massive momentum and spread to communities, school districts, and organizations across the country. In fact, President Jimmy Carter issued the first presidential proclamation declaring the week of March 8th as Nation Women’s History Week in 1980.
Womens History Month starts on Sunday, March 1st, 2026 through Tuesday, March 31st, 2026.
A big part of Women’s History Month is its annual themes. The National Women’s History Alliance usually selects a theme each year for Women’s History Month. The 2026 theme, “Leading the change: Women Shaping a Sustainable Future,” honors women leading sustainability efforts across all movements.
Inspiring Quotes for Women’s History Month:
“When somebody tells me I cannot do something, that’s when I do it.” – Gertrude Ederle, first woman to swing the English Channel
“I had reasoned this out in my mind. There were two things I had a right to, liberty and death. If I could not have one, I would have the other, for no man should take me alive.” – Harriet Tubman, freedom fighter
“I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the women I wanted to be.” – Diane Von Furstenberg, fashion Designer
“We are never assured of justice without a fight.” – Angela Davis, activist, author and scholar
“Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, award-winning Nigerian-American author
Remember:
“This is a man’s world
This is a man’s world
But it wouldn’t be nothing,
nothing without a woman or a girl” – James Brown
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55 Women’s History Month quotes to inspire you and your kids:
https://www.today.com/life/womens-history-month-quotes-t210696
Women’s History Month 2026:
