National Women’s Day 2025: India observes National Women’s Day on February 13 in honour of Sarojini Naidu, lovingly called the Nightingale of India. With her sharp intellect and fortitude, Naidu contributed greatly to the freedom struggle and also dedicated her life to uplifting women’s rights.
Her birthday is observed as National Women’s Day for the following reasons: to pay tribute to the women, accomplished in their various fields, and their role in the nation’s tomorrow. Naidu became India’s first governor of Uttar Pradesh after independence and was the first woman in the country to occupy a governorship. Generations were inspired by her ardent support for participating in the political process.
Wishes for National Women’s Day
- Let’s know them, be like them, and help them to be like us, and celebrate strong women with a National Women’s Day greeting.
- Warm wishes to all the brilliant women on National Women’s Day, whose care, compassion, and grit make the world a better place.
- Let’s celebrate those brave women on this National Women’s Day who opened doors for equality and progress. May all women be given equal opportunities to succeed in the future.
- Happy National Women’s Day to all women who inspire us with their elegance, courage, and wisdom. You have made a tremendous difference in society and in our lives.
- To the ladies who uplift, inspire, and give courage to the people around them, here’s to you.
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Happy Women’s Day 2025: 5 Inspirational Quotes
- “We need not love courage, but an even greater school of speech, earnestness in action, and deeper sincerity of motive.”
- “A nation’s greatest glory is in the utter loyalty, principles of love, and sacrifice that uplifted the mothers of the race.”
- “Whenever we may stand up for justice, the only thing that may honour our oppressors is by resisting them unto death.” If you’re stronger than the rest, see to it that you help the weaker boy or girl in every play and labour.
- “You have not lived until you have wrestled with intense sorrow and anxiety. You have no idea what living is, children, because life is endurance through years of battles that break the dream of all. Some fought long without finding out that this is living, for they have always been in crushes of anxious conflict, souls bleeding with intense yearning.”
History of National Women’s Day
Unconventionality would characterise the straddling of two worlds as Sarojini Naidu was born on 13 February 1879 in Hyderabad, being immensely influenced by their parents. Her mother, Varada Sundari Devi, a poet, and her father, Aghorenath Chattopadhyay, a scientist.
Yet early on, literature made her involved in poetry. She gained fame and was called the Nightingale of India. Her poems expressed the splendour of India’s long history, patriotism, and the common people in their strife.
Beyond a poet, Naidu was a tremendous political force too. She entered the Indian National Congress, working actively in the liberation struggle, battling, quote, “We cannot stand on our hind legs,” for the number of authorities there was in British hands.
Although she was arrested time and again, she stood for her principled views on the matter. She also served India on foreign shores, using leadership and oratory to voice for India’s independence.