Best 249 quotes in «strong women quotes» category

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

...to make the world safe for democracy.

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

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

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

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

Strong women only marry weak men.

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.

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

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.

You are more powerful than you think.

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.

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

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

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.