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Strong Women Quotes - Page 3

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

"Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

Belle of the Nineties (motion picture) (1934)

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

"Celebrating Our She-roes" by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

Time Magazine (1984), later quoted in Jonathon Lazear and Wendy Lazear "Meditations for Parents Who Do Too Much" (p. 22), 1993.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

"The feminist who didn't want to be called one" by Christine Todd Whitman, www.politico.com. December 9, 2013.

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

Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

I believe that history is not made by cynics. It is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.

"Kerry Hopes To Defy Skeptics Of Mideast Peace Talks". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. July 31, 2013.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.140, Transaction Publishers