Best 249 quotes in «strong women quotes» category

I like strong women - not necessarily a masculine woman - but I like strong women...say a woman who runs a C.E.O. corporation. I like a strong woman with confidence - massive confidence - and then I want to dominate her sexually.

I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves.

I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.

I think it takes a strong man to be in a relationship with a strong woman. A lot of people hear the word "diva" and think of it as a negative. I see it as a positive. I want somebody who knows what they want out of life and isn't afraid to show it.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

I think a lot of girls look up to me because I'm a strong woman.

I think at the end of the day she [Rose from "Fences"] is a strong woman in the truest sense of the word. I think all of that is in the narrative; it's already there. The hope is there; the playfulness is there; it's there. I wish I could take credit for it, but it's there.

It's not your job to like me - it's mine

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

I've always been pretty confident. I grew up in a family of strong women, so I was always taught to be proud of who I am, the way I am.

It was very tough with Madonna at the beginning of the meeting because I was very embarrassed. But I'm a strong woman who knows what I want and what I'm doing, and I think that when you have very clear ideas in your life, you can have conversations with everyone.

I wake up every day super excited to be a woman! It's amazing. I wouldn't have it any other way. There's an incredible diversity of people writing comics right now. As a writer, there are a lot of parts that I was thinking about in terms of the specific experience of being a woman superhero and what that means - the kind of pressures that are on strong women, and how women are able to feel strong in a public world.

I want my daughter to see a strong woman who goes after what she wants.

Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself

John and I were lucky because our mother was a strong woman with high expectations and a strong sense of values. She encouraged us to pursue things we were interested in and not think about what other people wanted us to do.

Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.

Many men admire strong women but they don't love them. Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like you and me humiliated. They cannot forgive us that we triumphed where so many others fail...Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat and destroy us.

Strong women only marry weak men.

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

...Respecting the woman as an important and valuable human being and making certain that the woman's experience while giving birth is fulfilling and empowering is not just a nice extra, it is absolutely essential as it makes the woman strong and therefore makes society strong.

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

...to make the world safe for democracy.

We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.

When I grew up, it was a time when women were just supposed to be cute and not have many opinions. My mother and her friends were quite different. They were all the most beautiful women you've ever seen ... and they were very strong women.

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

Women asking for raises should not only know their value, but they should ask with the confidence that they're helping the company to be successful.

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

You are more powerful than you think.

Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

You cannot stop what the public want. The public want two strong women in the final round and then a woman prime minister and I'm absolutely with that.

But trust me, men are never worth it. Behind every great man is a woman who gave up on greatness and tied herself into an apron. Romance is for saps, Abbie. You’re sharp and you’ve got pluck. Don’t waste it.

Confidence is highly erotic.

Cry your heart out little girl Cry ‘till there is no tears more to shed Cry ‘till there is no demon screams through your head Cry ‘till all your pain is washed away Cry ‘till there is no more aches left from yesterday Cause darling that’s how beauty is grown again, for simply a piece of art is made by nothing but patience and a feel of pain …

Did you really think giving yourself up to me would save her?” Miles gave a wide, slow smile that showed the glint of his fangs, his eyes never leaving Reegan’s face even as Kelsey moved into his line of sight. “Not at all. I merely thought it would give her time to save herself, you deluded piece of shit.

Do not be afraid to bare your teeth - you were not brought into this world covered in blood to become a gentle, tamed thing.

Do not judge a woman on her knees_ you never know how tall she is when she stands!

Drive-by declaration of love, how romantic,” Becca joked. Zahara smirked. “Hey, it’s either that or sending a carrier pigeon, but I have a feeling Rekesh would be pissed if a bird crapped all over him.” ~Zahara and Becca

Every chink and rut and battering wind has made is tough and brave and impossible to strike down.