At the 52nd GRAMMY Awards in 2010, at just 20 years old, then-country darling Taylor Swift won her first four GRAMMYs (including Album Of The Year) thanks to her second LP, Fearless. She has since taken home 11 golden gramophones, including a total of three for Album Of The Year — the most of any female solo artist in GRAMMY history.

As she accepted her second Album Of The Year trophy at the 2015 GRAMMY Awards — which then made her the first woman to win the honor twice — the now-pop queen used her speech as an opportunity to send an important and inspirational message to young women.

"There are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success, or take credit for your accomplishments, or your fame," she said. "But if you just focus on the work, and you don’t let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you’re going, you’ll look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there. And that will be the greatest feeling in the world."

There is so much to say about Swift, who has made history in countless other ways — in turn, inspiring fans looking to make it in the music industry and beyond. With that, the “Blank Space” singer is the perfect artist to kick off Run The World, a special Women's History Month video series meant to inspire and empower women and gender-expansive people in music (and, of course, is inspired by the iconic Beyoncé song of the same name).

While Swift continues to pen hits and gather accolades, the power of her music and her fame runs much deeper. Her personal, poetic songwriting has touched her millions of fans around the globe, including many young women. As she did with her GRAMMY speech, the superstar uses her massive platform to advocate for women and LGBTQIA+ people, as well as creatives — she famously took a stand for artists' rights by rerecording and rereleasing her albums sold to a private equity firm.

While women artists are often pitted against each other by the media, Swift has continually pushed back against that negativity. "I cheer on anybody who is living their life on their own terms, wearing what they want to wear, and representing what they want to represent," she said in 2014, in response to Emma Watson's United Nations speech on gender equality.

In 2019, Billboard declared Swift Woman of the Decade. In her acceptance speech, she shared the moment with fellow women artists, shouting out Lizzo, Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, H.E.R. and Rosalía.

Revisit these moments and more in the video above, and come back to GRAMMY.com for more Run The World episodes this month. And make sure to tune into the 64th GRAMMY Awards on CBS on April 3 to find out if Swift will take home a fourth Album Of The Year win, for Evermore.

10 Artists Who Have Stood Up For Women In Music: Taylor Swift, Lizzo & More