Best 249 quotes in «strong women quotes» category

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

...to make the world safe for democracy.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

You are more powerful than you think.

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

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

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.

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 strong woman just needs to be loved strongly

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Challenges are part of life. Overcoming them makes you a stronger person.

Being an Indie is about freedom. Freedom to choose what to publish, how to publish, when to publish, and freedom from being vulnerable to sexual harassment from a big publisher/editor and the so-called "gatekeepers". Being Indie is true liberalism and feminism. - Strong by Kailin Gow

Being strong does not disqualify you from being beautiful.

blessed be she who is both furious and magnificent

But if you want to know who the scariest person in the group is, look for the one who’s been fighting zombies without smearing her eyeliner.

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 the sexiest accessory. - Kailin Gow

Confidence is highly erotic.

Difficult times produce strong men and women. Keep on your struggle to achieve your dreams!

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 …