Strong Women Quotes

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

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.

I take my coffee like I take my women... strong... black... and proud.

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

I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.

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

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.

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

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

I always run into strong women who are looking for weak men to dominate them.

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

Life was meant to be lived.

You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

Being Latina for me is also being a strong 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.

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

They (the women) will always do it, it seems to me... I am woman and I am strong.

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

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.

Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.

America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism.

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.

I have very healthy strong relationships with women.

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

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

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

I think that the boy-woman is a very strong image and a lot of fascinating women are like that: Gala [Dalí].

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

I am struck by how many leading women... today started as Girl Scouts. It is an organization that obviously develops strong women leaders.

We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth

Only stupid men trying to seem smart need to be with dumb women. Only weak men trying to look strong are attracted to compliant women.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

The definite link between all the women who wear my designs is that they are strong, independent, and with their own opinions.

I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.

A friend of mine once said he like his women like his parmesan: strong smelling and shaved. I don't agree with that, but I don't like hairy women.

You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.

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

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

The woman must be restored to her rightful place, as the strong, loving maternal leader of peace and reason.

When I see two women kissing, my only physical reaction is a strong desire to vomit in both of their mouths.

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.

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.

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before.

There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.

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.

I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because there's been such a shortage of strong female characters.