Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bethenny Frankel

Let's be clear, I'm a strong woman.

Albert Einstein

The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.

Doc Hastings

As long as every generation rises to its challenges and stands up in defense of liberty - as Americans have done in the past and as our men and women continue to do today - our nation will remain free and strong.

Angie Dickinson

Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow.

Amy Poehler

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading.

Adrienne Rich

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

Adrienne Barbeau

In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.

Dorothy Day

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

Dorothy L. Sayers

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

Amelia Earhart

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

Annie Lennox

I get very frustrated when I hear women saying, "Oh, feminism is passé," because I think feminism means empowerment. Men can be feminists, too! Many men are feminists. We need feminism. It's not against men; it's about the empowerment of women. It's the respect of women - giving women equal rights, the same opportunities.

Annie Lennox

To be labeled as a strong woman when you feel vulnerable is a strange place to be, because then you're, like, "Oh, I have to be strong now. But I don't feel strong. I feel alienated. I feel isolated. I feel that things are very surreal, and they're not authentic, and this is all just very overwhelming."

Annabelle Wallis

I like to think that I represent myself as a strong woman, so to work with other strong women I find very inspiring.

David Bailey

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

Anne Rice

Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.

Alice Walker

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

Darius Rucker

I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.

Cokie Roberts

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.

Angela Merkel

I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!

Angela Merkel

I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

Ang Lee

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

Anita Roddick

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

Angelina Jolie

Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes.

Angelina Jolie

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

Angelina Jolie

I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity.

Carly Simon

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house.

Mika

I love collaborating with strong women.

Kalpana Chawla

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

Maria Conchita Alonso

I've always been more in control of my professional life than my personal life. Although I'm a strong woman, when I fall in love I just give myself 100 percent. I become secondary.

Paget Brewster

If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Miuccia Prada

Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.