Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nancy Astor

We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know

Nancy Astor

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

Mary Wollstonecraft

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

Nick Cannon

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.

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.

Madonna Ciccone

Strong women leave big hickies

Madonna Ciccone

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

Madonna Ciccone

If you're not comfortable with a strong woman you're not comfortable with your own feminine instincts. You're not comfortable, period. You're going to be threatened by everything that's not exactly like you are ... and that is the measure any man.

Lykke Li

I feel it's so important to have strong women around you.

Louis Farrakhan

Hillary, you're a strong woman, you're an intelligent woman - you're not a good woman. But if you want to do good, let the Black man go, and stop deceiving them, that you are really their "friend." If you were their friend, why did you kill Muammar Gadhafi?

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.

Miuccia Prada

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

R. Buckminster Fuller

It is well known that of every strong woman they say she has a masculine mind.

Priyanka Chopra

I seek out parts which are strong women. It's not the quantity of a role; it's the quality of a role.

Portia de Rossi

I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters.

Oprah Winfrey

The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.

Paget Brewster

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

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.

Kari Matchett

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

Kristen Bell

There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us.

Kristen Bell

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.

Ken Follett

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

Kaya Scodelario

I’m a bit of a feminist and I carry a machete! (Laughs) I try to be a strong female. I think it’s important. My mum is my idol in life. She’s a very strong woman. I think it’s important for women to be strong and intelligent and hold their own.

Michael Ian Black

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

Michelle Obama

Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt.

Sidney Sheldon

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

Shonda Rhimes

This moment right here, me standing up here all brown with my boobs and my Thursday night of network television full of women of color, competitive women, strong women, women who own their bodies and whose lives revolve around their work instead of their men, women who are big dogs, that could only be happening right now.

Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.

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.

Neil Gaiman

I hope the strong women out there aren't quiet and they don't go away, because when people attack you for speaking, the best way to drive them nuts is to smile and carry on speaking, louder, more wisely, more intensely, more articulately than ever.