Famous Quotes & Sayings

Margaret Sanger

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.

Michael Kors

I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women who would argue over what kind of pants you were wearing or the color of your nail polish.

Melinda Gates

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

Maya Angelou

Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.

Pat Mitchell

In my opinion, the most important thing as a woman leader-and I learned this early through a whole bunch of great women who were in my life (and men, I have to say)-is that if you have a position of leadership and power and you don't use it in a different way, then you're wasting it. So when people used to say to me when I was the first woman president of PBS, "Well, you know, does that mean that as a woman you're going to be a different kind of president?" And I would say, "Well, I hope so!"

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

You don't have to play masculine to be a strong woman.

Nora Roberts

I’m not going anywhere.” Gently, he stroked her back, cradled her head. Was there anything more astounding or more frightening to a man, he wondered, than a strong woman in tears? “I’ve been right here all along. I love you, Eve, almost more than I can stand.” “I need you. I can’t help it. I don’t want to.” “I know.” He eased back, tucking a hand under her chin to lift her face to his. “We’re going to have to deal with it.” He kissed one wet cheek, then the other. “I really can’t do without you.

Mae Jemison

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

Michael Cadnum

No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.

Sojourner Truth

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

Sofia Vergara

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.

Michelle Rodriguez

There's only a handful of directors who really understand what I call the alchemical balance between a man and a woman, in a woman's body, which most people consider the strong woman character.

Nora Roberts

...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)

Mary MacLane

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.

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.

Kari Matchett

Having the opportunity to play a strong woman is a good one.

Gloria Steinem

It doesn't matter what word we use, if it has the same content, it will be treated in the same way. There are other words - there's "womanist," there's "mujerista," there's "women's liberationist" - all mean the same thing and they get the same ridicule. I think we just need to choose what word we feel comfortable with that says women are full human beings, and whatever that word is, it will get a lot of opposition. But it will also attract a lot of support. But this is a revolution, not a public relations movement.

Gloria Steinem

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Michael Ian Black

I take my coffee the same way I take my women: Strong, black, and proud.

Christina Aguilera

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

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.

Frank Sinatra

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

Chris O'Dowd

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

Susan B. Anthony

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

Susan B. Anthony

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

Susan B. Anthony

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

Reba McEntire

Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

John Shimkus

I am proud that the Republican Party stands for strong support for the military, and I am sure we will consistently support our men and women serving in dangerous places around the world and their families.

Kelis

Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.

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.

Garry Marshall

I grew up with two sisters, no brothers. There was Ronny who produced "Happy Days" for me and my sister Penny who acts, directs - she does everything. So they were very strong women in my life.