Best 249 quotes in «strong women quotes» category

Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Happy international woman's day to all of the beautifully strong women across the world

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.

I don't really stay away from politics but the bullshit just gets to be too much. Any political tweets I take down after an hour or so. They are met with such a wall of stupidity and anger, it is hardly worth it to leave it up. Particularly, if you say anything about Hillary Clinton, the responses are just nuts - "YOU JUST FEAR SMART, STRONG WOMEN, MR. MAN".

I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.

I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.

If women ran the world, we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I've spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

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

I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.

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

I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

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 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.

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 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.

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'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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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, 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.

...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.

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

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

Strong women only marry weak men.

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

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

...to make the world safe for democracy.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.