Strong Women Quotes - Page 2

If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.

I think women are very powerful and I think we're more powerful together than separated.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.

I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!

What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.

I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.

If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude problem

Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it.

In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

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

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.

I have found that women are not only just as much interested as men are in flying, but apparently have less fear than the men have. At least, more women than men asked to go up with me. And when I took them up, they seemed to enjoy it.

Laughing is the best calorie burner.

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.

I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.

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