Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garrison Keillor

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

Emma Watson

There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

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.

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.

Karen Black

I love playing strong women, even if theyre nuts.

Lynette Fromme

There were many women around. We all had a relationship with each other that was very strong. And all of our minds kind of hooked up. We rejected the society. We rejected marriage because we didn't like what our parents had.

Malala Yousafzai

We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

Frida Kahlo

Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?

Orson Welles

Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.

Emily Dickinson

Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth

Judy Chicago

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

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.

Tipper Gore

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

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.

Susan Fletcher

Marjan. I have told him tales of good women and bad women, strong women and weak women, shy women and bold women, clever women and stupid women, honest women and women who betray. I'm hoping that, by living inside their skins while he hears their stories, he'll understand over time that women are not all this way or that way. I'm hoping he'll look at women as he does at men-that you must judge each of us on her own merits, and not condemn us or exalt us only because we belong to a particular sex.

Natalie Martinez

I have to represent. I feel proud to have a culture that's different and proud to be a Latina. We're not all categorized as one type of person there's people from everywhere doing different things who have different types of cultures. Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

Natalie Martinez

Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

Natalie Martinez

Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us, don't take us for granted!

Natalie Imbruglia

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

Taylor Swift

If you have something about yourself that's different, you're lucky. It's not a curse.

Simone de Beauvoir

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

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.

Joe Lieberman

We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong.

Joan Allen

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vanessa Hudgens

I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.