Best 249 quotes in «strong women quotes» category

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

...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.

...to make the world safe for democracy.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

A common misconception about strong women is that we don’t need the hand-holding, the flowers, and the nice gestures, and what I’ve found to be true is that it’s the strong women who want it the most.

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.

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

You are more powerful than you think.

Balsa seemed invincible, endowed with powers no other warrior could match, but in her profile he could glimpse the shadow of a young girl, hurt and buffeted by a cruel and hopeless fate. If he had never experienced what it was like to be at the mercy of fate himself, he would not have noticed, but now he could see it with unbearable, heartrending clarity.

A strong woman just needs to be loved strongly

Agent Smith, a lady is never late, everyone is simply early.” I said back, paraphrasing something I saw on a 20/20 special. “Well, a lady isn’t exactly what they are expecting.

All living things have energy. Our bodies are like machines in that it needs maintenance and care. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts by Kailin Gow

A thousand curses on girls with smart mouths and access to firepower.

BEASTON: Strong women don’t do well in cages.

Because you are a strong, smart girl and I don’t want you to lose any bit of yourself, ever. No man is worth that.