Famous Quotes & Sayings

Heidi Klum

I represent more the healthy, happy, curvy, strong woman. And that sounds much healthier to me than being 80 pounds and skinny as a bean.

Eleanor Roosevelt

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Eleanor Roosevelt

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Helen Keller

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.

Helen Keller

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

George Weinberg

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

Christina Aguilera

Call me a slag. If it means being a strong woman, I'll gladly be that.

Chris O'Dowd

I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.

Frank Sinatra

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.

Iain Duncan Smith

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.

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.

Molly Parker

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

J. K. Rowling

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Gloria Allred

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

Elsa Schiaparelli

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.

Isabel Allende

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.

Ginni Rometty

Growth and comfort do not coexist.

Ginger Rogers

You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.

Louisa May Alcott

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.

Paul Tsongas

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.

Joanna Garcia

We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Being a woman did not look enviable to me, even when it looked admirable. It looked like nonstop sacrifice and service. Because it was. Being a woman seemed vulnerable and sad. Even the strong women I knew - and they were all strong - had earned their strength through enduring huge disappointments and tremendous struggles.

Penelope Cruz

I just try not to label myself in any way. I just have an allergy to labels in general. I can tell you that I am surrounded by very strong women and that I really appreciate that, but I'd rather not label myself.

Queen Latifah

I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

Judy Chicago

Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.

Karen Black

I love playing strong women, even if theyre nuts.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Patrick Dempsey

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