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5 Brilliant Quotes From Women, Illustrated

5 Brilliant Quotes From Women, Illustrated
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Senior Reporter, HuffPost

To celebrate International Women's Day this past Sunday, CNN asked their audience to share their favorite quotes from inspirational women and recruited female designers to turn them into art.

CNN crowd-sourced the quotes using the hashtag #InspireWomen before enlisting the help of female designers who volunteered to illustrate a selection of the quotes. On Sunday, CNN revealed the final product: a gallery of 17 gorgeous illustrations capturing powerful words from women throughout history.

All of the quotes were suggested by CNN's audience, CNN journalists and women interviewed by CNN's Leading Women program.

The designs include quotes from Helen Keller, Maya Angelou and Sheryl Sandberg. Here are 5 of our favorites:

christiane amanpour
Designed by Yulia Shevchenko

toni morrison
Designed by Brenna Darroch

michelle obama
Designed by Laura Loving

elizabeth gilbert
Designed by Kitty Curran

joan jett
Designed by Amber Alves

Head over to CNN to see the rest of these badass quotes turned into art.

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Jane Austen
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From Persuasion.
2
Maya Angelou
3
Virginia Woolf
Hulton Archive via Getty Images
4
Sylvia Plath
From The Bell Jar.
5
Nora Ephron
From I Remember Nothing
6
Germaine Greer
From The Change
7
Gloria Steinem
8
E.L. Konigsburg
From From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.
9
Cheryl Strayed
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
10
Jennifer Weiner
From Good In Bed.
11
Inga Muscio
From Cunt: A Declaration of Independence
12
Erica Jong
From the essay "The Writer on Her Work."
13
bell hooks
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From Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom.
14
Anna Quindlen
From Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake
15
Staceyann Chin
16
Audre Lorde
17
Alice Munro
From "How I Met My Husband."
18
Francesca Lia Block
Necklace of Kisses
19
Erica Jong
From Fear Of Flying
20
Nora Ephron
From 2012 commencement address at Wellesley College.
21
Simone de Beauvoir
From Tête-à-tête.
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