Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wayne

A man's got to do what a man's got to do.

Nora Roberts

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Martha Plimpton

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

Marge Piercy

A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.

Marge Piercy

A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.

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.

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.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

Sophia Bush

As a strong woman, there are things I would never put up with.

Thomas Hardy

Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.

Whitney Cummings

I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine there's just a lot of opportunity for women to have powerful roles. Or it's just that there's more women writing TV. Women tend to maybe write strong women.

Rodrigo Santoro

In a lot of roles, strong women feel like they need to apologize. But men don't need to apologize for being ruthless and women somehow do?

Robert Rodriguez

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

Reba McEntire

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

Roger Ebert

A truly strong woman will choose a stong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along.

Virginia Woolf

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Woodrow Wilson

...to make the world safe for democracy.

Salma Hayek

I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'

Kelly Reilly

I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.

Katy Perry

I like to go out there looking like a strong woman, because I am strong. But I am also a woman who goes through all kinds of problems and highs and lows.

Ryan Gosling

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.

Robert Jordan

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

Robert E. Howard

I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.

Tina Fey

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

Sabrina Lloyd

I want to do a little bit of everything. I love sci-fi. I think it's more the characters that draw me towards things. I like strong women. I'm very interested in futuristic stuff, anything.