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Best Strong Woman Quotes

  • “Beautiful girl, you were made to do hard things so believe in yourself.” —Anonymous
  • “She would rather walk alone in darkness than follow anyone else’s shadow.” —R. G. Moon
  • “And you, you scare people because you are whole all by yourself.” —Lauren Alex Hooper
  • “She’s proof that you can walk through hell and still be an angel.” —R. H. Sin
  • “She is water. Soft enough to offer life, tough enough to drown it away.” —Rupi Kaur
  • “Her damaged petals are what made her more beautiful than all the other flowers.” —A. J. Lawless
  • “You have to fight through some bad days to earn the best days of your life.” —Anonymous
  • “I didn’t cause it. I can’t control it. I can’t cure it. But I won’t condone it.” —Anonymous
  • “Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life.” —Anonymous
  • “Don’t underestimate me. I know more than I say, think more than I speak, notice more than you realize.” —Anonymous
  • “Don’t let a little stormy weather get you down, there is always sunshine on the other side.” —Heather A. Stillufsen
  • “What made her strong was despite the million things that hurt her, she spoke of nothing. Nothing but happiness.” —J. A.
  • “She is full of wounds riddled with scars, but she is still standing and she is still beautiful.” —R. H. Sin
  • “Give a woman pain and she’ll turn it into power. Give that woman chaos and she’ll create peace.” —R. H. Sin
  • “There’s fire in her… If loved correctly, she will warm your entire home. If abused, she will burn it down.” —Anonymous
  • “Do not tame the wolf inside you just because you’ve met someone who doesn’t have the courage to handle you.” —Belle Estreller
  • “A strong woman will automatically stop trying if she feels unwanted. She won’t fix it or beg, she’ll just walk away.” —Anonymous
  • “Today, hang in there, hold on and be strong. Keep going. You will and you can get through this.” —Heather A. Stillufsen
  • “Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.” —Anonymous
  • “A storm was coming, but that’s not what she felt. It was adventure on the wind and it shivered down her spine.” —Atticus
  • “You must know this, there is always something out there that you can keep fighting for. So don’t give up.” —Heather A. Stillufsen
  • “Chin up, child. In my experience, when a life seems to be falling to pieces, it is usually falling into place.” —Beau Taplin
  • “If an egg is broken by outside force, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from inside.” —Anonymous
  • “She may be broken for a while, but that’s ok. She’s working on her, because she’s not one to leave a mess lying around.” —JmStorm
  • “And you were just like the moon, so lonely, so full of imperfections. But just like the moon, you shined in times of darkness.” —C. W.
  • “The most dangerous woman of all is the one who refuses to rely on your sword to save her because she carries her own.” —R. H. Sin
  • “She is kind but strong, and that is where so many mistake her. They interpret her kindness for weakness and force her to show her strength.” —JmStorm
  • “She wasn’t born herself. She found herself over a long and treacherous road. And the more treacherous the road became, the more of herself she found.” —Atticus
  • “The world needs strong women. Women who will lift and build others, who will love and be loved. Women who live bravely, both tender and fierce. Women of indomitable will.” —Amy Tenney
  • “She is a beautiful piece of broken pottery, put back together by her own hands. And a critical world judges her cracks while missing the beauty of how she made herself whole again.” —JmStorm
  • “And one day she discovered that she was fierce, and strong, and full of fire, and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears.” —Mark Anthony
  • “You may not be everything you thought you’d be by now, but you can be the one who loves, serves, and gives her all, and waters and nurtures every plant in the garden that God has already given her.” —Morgan Harper Nichols

Courageous Woman Quotes

  • “Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.” —Brené Brown
  • “Follow your dreams, even if that includes going through some nightmares.” —Paulo Coelho
  • “You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.” —Dolly Part
  • Iranian women are very courageous and active, even with all the oppression.” —Farah Diba
  • You’ve always had the power, my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.” —Glinda the Good Witch
  • I want to thank all the shoulders of the strong and brave and courageous women that I am standing on.” —Audra McDonald
  • What this misguided world and generation needs is a massive group of courageous and caring, wise and unwearying women.” —Elaine A. Cannon
  • Skydiving is something I’ve never done! And I am very excited to take the leap with a community of like-minded courageous women.” —Anne Bancroft
  • I don’t know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.” —Beth Moore
  • “As women, we must stand up for ourselves. As women, we must stand up for each other. As women, we must stand up for justice for all.” —Michelle Obama
  • Women have always been courageous… They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.” —Isabel Allende
  • I’m interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.” —Elizabeth Lesser
  • “When I look back at my life, it is clear that what I most needed to know was hidden in the places where I least wanted to go.” —Barbara Brown Taylor
  • “You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding.” —Cheryl Strayed
  • Women? I love women. Life would have been virtually zero without them. Journalism? I really feel like I am a journalist… And courage? I had a boat named Courageous.” —Ted Turner
  • Katz traces the courageous role of Black women in settling the West (and] deftly shows how these pioneering spirits helped stabilize early communities in Texas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.” —Herb Boyd
  • For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.” —Queen Victoria
  • Women’s courage is rather different from men’s. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.” —Mary Wesley
  • Meg Ryan is a beautiful and courageous woman. I grieve the loss of her companionship but I’ve not lost the friendship. We talk all the time and that was what our connection was about. She has a wonderful mind and we just like a chat.” —Russell Crowe
  • I am very proud of my mom and consider her the most courageous woman I know. With perseverance, sacrifice and hard work, she raised a family of Olympic athletes and gave us the tools and the spirit to succeed. That is something that my brothers and I will always be thankful for.” —Diana Lopez
  • No buts,” he said, “because there are none. You see yourself as someone who couldn’t get away. I see the courageous woman who escaped. You see yourself as someone who should be ashamed or guilty because she let it happen. I see a kind, beautiful woman who should feel proud because she stopped it from happening ever again. Not many women have the strength to do what you did…” —Nicholas Sparks

Strong Woman Divorce Quotes

  • “You never really know a man until you have divorced him.” —Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • “Don’t have regrets. You can learn something from every experience.” —Ellen Degeneres
  • “Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.” —Elizabeth Gilbert
  • “There’s no pain or failure like going through a divorce.” —Jennifer Lopez
  • “It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.” —Michelle Obama
  • “Do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you.” —Rupi Kaur
  • “Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” —Toni Morrison
  • “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” —Carol Burnett
  • “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” —Lucille Ball
  • “Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping it will transform into a door.” —Coco Chanel
  • “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” —Lena Horne
  • “I used to hope that you’d bring me flowers. Now I plant my own.” —Rachel Wolchin
  • “I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.” —Erica Jong
  • “The process of discovering with somebody that you love that you don’t work is so painful.” —Kate Hudson
  • “Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.” —Sonia Sotomayor
  • “Perhaps sometimes reminding ourselves that we do have a choice makes it easier to pick the harder one.” —Eva Melusine Thieme
  • “When people divorce, it’s always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse.” —Monica Bellucci
  • “Divorce isn’t the child’s fault. Don’t say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you’re really just hurting the child.” —Valerie Bertinelli
  • “Divorce isn’t such a tragedy. A tragedy’s staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.” —Jennifer Weiner
  • “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” —Deborah Reber
  • “When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they ‘don’t understand’ one another, but a sign that they have, at least, begun to.” —Helen Rowland
  • “Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.” —Carrie Fisher
  • “The good thing about getting divorced young—if there is a good thing—is that it makes you realize there’s no schedule in life. It blasts you wide open and frees you to be honest with yourself.” —Olivia Wilde
  • “When we truly care for ourselves, it becomes possible to care about other people. The more alert and sensitive we are to our own needs, the more loving and generous we can be towards others.” —Eda LeShan
  • “It was a long time in the making, my divorce. One day became less special than the [one before], and pretty soon we ceased all conversation. It is a sad day when you have nothing left to say.” —Ricki Lake
  • “It always gets worse before it can get better. But it will get better. Like everything else, and like our past struggles, at some point we win, but before that win, there’s always that loss that spurs us on.” —Dolores Huerta
  • “Imagine spreading everything you care about on a blanket and then tossing the whole thing up in the air. The process of divorce is about loading that blanket, throwing it up, watching it all spin, and worrying what stuff will break when it lands.” —Amy Poehler
  • “I was a high-functioning depressive, seemingly pulled together and buttoned down. But inside deep, I was numb and mute. Now on the other side of divorce, I know that was me fragmented and doing my best to cope. But my body knew.” —Liza Caldwell, SAS for Women Cofounder
  • “I learned that it would take more than just the black and white steps of getting divorced, or even finding a lawyer. It would take NOT just facing my fears. It would take walking into my fears — with each step making me bolder and less ashamed, with each step giving me courage.” —Liza Caldwell, SAS for Women Cofounder
  • “I think that men were allowed to write about their marriages falling apart, but you weren’t quite supposed to if you were a woman. You were just supposed to curl up into a ball and move to Connecticut. But you know, it didn’t really matter because, as I said, I knew what the book was. It’s a funny book, and I was very happy that it sold a lot of copies.” —Nora Ephron on her book, Heartburn
  • “There is no such thing as a “broken family.” Family is family, and is not determined by marriage certificates, divorce papers, and adoption documents. Families are made in the heart. The only time family becomes null is when those ties in the heart are cut. If you cut those ties, those people are not your family. If you make those ties, those people are your family. And if you hate those ties, those people will still be your family because whatever you hate will always be with you.” —C. Joybell C.

Determined Woman Quotes

  • “A woman with a voice is, by definition, a strong woman.” —Melinda Gates
  • “There is no force more powerful than a woman determined to rise.” —Bosa Sebele
  • “Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.” —Marilyn Monroe
  • “She will rise with a spine of steel and roar like thunder, she will rise.”
  • “In this world, there is no force equal to the strength of a determined woman.”
  • “When there are no ceilings, the sky’s the limit. So let’s keep going.” —Hillary Clinton
  • “Never again, would I use someone’s approval as a thermometer for my self-worth.” —Jacqueline Simon Gunn
  • “I think that passion is the secret ingredient that drives hard work and excellence.” —Kelly Ayotte
  • “You could certainly say that I’ve never underestimated myself. There’s nothing wrong with being ambitious.” —Angela Merkel
  • “She will rise. With a spine of steel and a roar like thunder, she will rise.” ―Nicole Lyons
  • “If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.” —Margaret Thatcher
  • “A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” —Diane Mariechild
  • “I am too positive to be doubtful, too optimistic to be fearful, and too determined to be defeated.”
  • “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” —Roseanne Barr
  • “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it is who is going to stop me.” —Ayn Rand
  • “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!” —Dolly Parton
  • “Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist.” —Margaret Cho
  • “Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head.” —Meryl Streep
  • “She wraps herself in strength, carries herself with confidence, and works hard, strengthening her arms for the task at hand.” —Proverbs 31:16-17
  • “Be the kind of woman who, when your feet hit the floor in the morning, the devil says ‘Oh no, she’s up.’”
  • “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in our absence.” —Sheryl Sandberg
  • “No one ever became a success without taking chances… One must be able to recognize the moment and seize it without delay.” —Estée Lauder
  • “My mother told me that fear was not an option. I was always told that women are stronger, so I believed it.” —Diane Von Furstenberg
  • “Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that’s the one that is going to require the most from you.” —Caroline Myss
  • “It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.” —Madeleine Albright
  • “I’m ambitious and I’m determined and I know where I’m going to be. It’s not where I want to be, but where I going to be.”
  • “Learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more of who you are.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “But if you want to know who the scariest person in the group is, look for the one who’s been fighting zombies without smearing her eyeliner.” —Mira Grant
  • “I am a determined woman. I am smart. I have a fun and wonderful personality. I am strong mentally and emotionally. I am a woman. I am me.”
  • “Just watch, all of you men. I’ll show you what a woman can do…I’ll go across the country, I’ll race to the Moon… I’ll never look back.” —Edna Gardner Whyte
  • “Women have to harness their power—it’s absolutely true. It’s just learning not to take the first no. And if you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.” —Cher
  • “I found that ultimately if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in — even if it makes you vulnerable — amazing things can and will happen.” —Emma Watson
  • “We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.” —Sheryl Sandberg
  • “There’s something so special about a woman who dominates in a man’s world. It takes a certain grace, strength, intelligence, fearlessness, and the nerve to never take no for an answer.” —Rihanna
  • “Success, they taught me, is built on the foundation of courage, hard-work and individual responsibility. Despite what some would have us believe, success is not built on resentment and fears.” —Susana Martinez
  • “No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you ~ whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind.” —Nikki Rowe
  • “Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.” —Margaret Sanger
  • “You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, and you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.” —Marsha Evans
  • “To all the little girls who are watching, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.” —Hillary Clinton
  • “With each generation, women’s ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn’t mean everything is perfect or that our work is finished.” —Cathy McMorris Rodgers
  • “I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.” —Michelle Obama
  • “Everyone has inside of her a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” —Anne Frank
  • “As women, we have to start appreciating our own worth and each other’s worth. Seek out strong women to befriend, to align yourself with, to learn from, to collaborate with, to be inspired by, to support, and enlightened by.” —Madonna

I am a Strong Woman Quotes

  • “I’m a strong black woman and I cannot be intimidated and I’m not going anywhere.” —Maxine Waters
  • “I am not my hair. I am not this skin. I am the soul that lives within.” —India. Arie
  • “I’m not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I’m thick. I like my body.” —Alicia Keys
  • “I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.”—Queen Latifah
  • “Yes, I do have a big ego … and I am in love with myself … Because if you don’t love yourself how can anybody love you back?” —Mel B
  • When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” —Audre Lorde
  • “I’m convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.” —Janet Jackson
  • “I am very strong and very opinionated. My ‘no’ means ‘no’, my ‘yes’ means ‘yes’. I’m not negotiating certain things. I don’t feel like I have to become something I’m not.” —Beyoncé
  • “God made me this way so I have to be happy with who I am. And it’s a journey. And I embrace my brown skin sisters. I love them and I hope that they embrace me.” —Kym Whitley
  • “I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at time. I’m sensual. I’m not overly sexual. I am so many things in so many ways…” —Viola Davis
  • “I’m a black woman every day and I’m not confused about that. I’m not worried about that. I don’t need to have a discussion with you about how I feel as a black woman, because I don’t feel disempowered as a black woman.” —Shonda Rhimes
  • “I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.” —June Jordan
  • “I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay.” —Tracee Ellis Ross
  • “I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. . . . Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.” —Zora Neal Hurston
  • “When a man tells a Black woman that she looks mixed as a form of endearment, he’s insinuating that her beauty comes from the (allegedly) non Black part of her. All they’re effectively saying is: You’re too beautiful to just be Black. Oh, but I am. We aren’t beautiful in spite of our Blackness, we are beautiful because of it. So don’t dare try to give the credit to anything else.” —Shayla Pierce
  • “Ideally, I want to see all beauties, all shapes, all sizes, all skin tones, all backgrounds represented in my profession. Now that I am blessed to be that reflection I was once looking for, I’m making a promise to speak out for that little girl that I used to be. I might not have the power to change what media puts out there, or to single-handedly convince young girls like me that they should love themselves. But what I can do is start with me: living each day, embracing who I am.” —Danielle Brooks

Inspirational Strong Woman Quotes

  • “Design the life you want to live.” —Rachel Roy
  • “Always be smarter than the people who hire you.” —Lena Horne
  • “No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.” —Althea Gibson
  • “A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.” —Pearl Bailey
  • “If you prioritize yourself, you are going to save yourself.” —Gabrielle Union
  • “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “Each person must live their life as a model for others.” —Rosa Parks
  • “No person has the right to rain on your dreams.” —Marian Wright Edelman
  • “Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat and struggle for.” —Marian Wright Edelman
  • “Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.” —Sadie Delany
  • “A great figure or physique is nice, but it’s self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.” —Vivica A. Fox
  • “No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.” —Zora Neale Hurston
  • “Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” —Dr. Mae Jemison
  • “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” —Coretta Scott King
  • “Jealous people are insecure. The more you like and respect yourself, the less likely you are to be envious.” —Wendy Williams
  • “If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it.” —Sojourner Truth
  • “In complete darkness we are all the same; it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us. Don’t let your eyes deceive you.” —Janet Jackson
  • “Just be honest and true to yourself. If your friends around you love you, they’ll wish you the best and want only what’s going to make you happy.” —Meagan Good
  • “It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else’s job to take care of me but me.” —Beyonce Knowles
  • “Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go — purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything … whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.” —Tina Turner

Independent Strong Women Quotes

  • “When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.” —Helen Keller
  • “Be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of someone else.” —Judy Garland
  • “Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.” —Sheryl Sandberg
  • When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it’s tradition.” —Letty Cottin Pogrebin
  • “The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but no vision.” —Helen Keller
  • “Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.” —Bella Abzug
  • “Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway?” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “I’m tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, Okay.” —Madonna
  • “I figure, if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.” —Calamity Jane
  • “It is the ultimate luxury to combine passion and contribution. It’s also a very clear path to happiness.” —Sheryl Sandberg
  • “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “One of the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others’ expectations or let others define my worth.” —Sonia Sotomayor
  • “I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.” —William Golding
  • “No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.” —Sheryl Sandberg
  • “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength.” —Zoe Saldana
  • “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” —Helen Keller
  • “We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.” —Sheryl Sandberg
  • “What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.” —Sheryl Sandberg
  • “Of course I am not worried about intimidating men, the type of man show will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.” —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” —Sonia Sotomayor
  • “I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and I believe in miracles.” —Audrey Hepburn
  • “I have always been actively involved in my community, belonging to organizations that promote the interests of Latinos. But I also know that the issues we confront are the same issues, in many respects, as the larger community. So what we do helps not just us but everybody.” —Sonia Sotomayor
  • “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.” —Helen Keller
  • “It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “Don’t let fear stop you. Don’t give up because you are paralyzed by insecurity or overwhelmed by the odds, because in giving up, you give up hope. Understand that failure is a process in life, that only in trying can you enrich yourself and have the possibility of moving forward. The greatest obstacle in life is fear and giving up because of it.” —Sonia Sotomayor

Short Quotes about Strong Woman

  • “Behind every great woman is herself.”
  • “Bravery hides in amazing places.” —Kiera Cass
  • “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “Rainy days are good for the soul.” —Anonymous
  • “To be soft is to be powerful.” —Anonymous
  • “Women hold up half the sky.” —Chinese proverb
  • “Half woman, half warrior. Delicate and strong.” —R.H. Sin
  • “Be good to her, she’s rare.” —R. H. Sin
  • “You’ll heal. You’ll be okay. You’ll let go.” —PTLM
  • “I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.” —Audre Lorde
  • “Little girls with dreams become women with vision.” —Unknown
  • “I’m not funny. What I am is brave.” —Lucille Ball
  • “She is a queen. Her soul is royalty.” —Adrian Michael
  • “Pain shapes a woman into a warrior.” —R. H. Sin
  • “Yes! You are stronger than you think.” —Heather A. Stillufsen
  • “Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.” —Louisa May Alcott
  • “I’m more determined than ever to make it for myself.”
  • “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” —Sheryl Sandberg
  • “Do one thing every day that scares you.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “You were wild once. Don’t let them tame you.” —Isadora Duncan
  • “Work hard at being the BEST version of yourself.” —Isadora Duncan
  • “It is better to be looked over than overlooked.” —Mae West
  • “There is no force equal to that of a determined woman”
  • “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” —Mae West
  • “In life there is no real safety except for self-belief.” —Madonna
  • “She overcame everything that was meant to destroy her.” —Sylvester McNutt III
  • “If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.” —Mo Willems
  • “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “You can have it all. Just not all at once.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” —Helen Keller
  • “Alone, by herself she built the kingdom that she wanted.” —R. H. Sin
  • “Our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry.” —Rupi Kaur
  • “We are made of all those who have built and broken us.” —Atticus
  • “The bravest thing she ever did was to stay alive each day.” —Atticus
  • “There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” —Michelle Obama
  • “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” —Coco Chanel
  • “A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.” —Coco Chanel
  • “Sometimes an angel, sometimes a hell raiser, always a strong woman.” —R. H. Sin
  • “They tried to burn her not knowing she was a flame.” —R. H. Sin
  • “I am not going to die; I’m going home like a shooting star.” —Sojourner Truth

Maya Angelou Quotes About Strong Woman

  • “Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” —Maya Angelou
  • “I can’t believe my good fortune. I’m so grateful to be a Black woman. I would be so jealous if I were anything else.” —Maya Angelou.
  • “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.” —Maya Angelou
  • “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” —Maya Angelou
  • “Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” —Maya Angelou
  • “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” —Maya Angelou
  • “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” —Maya Angelou
  • I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving woman, a woman who teaches by being.” —Maya Angelou

Popular Strong Women Quotes

  • “Storms make trees take deeper roots.” —Dolly Parton
  • “I am mine. Before I am anyone else’s.” —Nayyirah Waheed
  • “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” —Lalah Deliah
  • “She was brave and strong and broken all at once.” —Anna Funder
  • “Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.” —Nora Ephron
  • “I know my worth. I’ve paid dearly for every ounce of it.” —Alfa
  • “As for my girls, I’ll raise them to think they breathe fire.” —Jessica Kirkland
  • “If you live off a man’s compliments, you’ll die from his criticism.” —Cornelius Lindsey
  • “She wore her scars as her best attire. A stunning dress made of hellfire.” —Daniel Saint
  • “Some women are lost in the fire. Some women are built from it.” —Michelle K.
  • “Understand that getting help isn’t a sign of weakness but a sign of strength.” —Michelle Obama
  • “A strong woman looks a challenge dead in the eye and gives it a wink.” —Gina Carey
  • “A strong woman builds other up because she knows what it’s like to be torn down.” —Anonymous
  • “She never seemed shattered; to me, she was a breathtaking mosaic of the battles she’s won.” —Matt Baker
  • “In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” —Albert Camus
  • “Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.” —Susan B. Anthony
  • “You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served.” —Nina Simone
  • “You’ve always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.” —Glinda, “Wizard of Oz”
  • “It isn’t what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.” —Jane Austen, “Sense and Sensibility”
  • “Never ever mistake her silence for weakness. Remember that sometimes the air stills, before the onset of a hurricane.” —Nikita Hill
  • “Strong women don’t play victim, don’t make themselves look pitiful, and don’t point fingers. They stand and they deal.” —Mandy Hale
  • “She’s a strong cup of black coffee in a world that is drunk on the cheap wine of shallow love.” —JmStorm
  • “The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself and shine amongst those who never believed she could.” —Unknown
  • “A woman who opens her heart to love you, when its already broken, is braver than any person you’ll meet.” —Steven Benson
  • “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.” —Mary Oliver
  • “She understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning from one version of yourself to another.” —Sarah Addison Allen
  • “After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not this enough, not that enough’, almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought: I’m enough.” —Anna Quindlen
  • “I wanted to show that women are empowered and strong, and don’t have to be saved by some male hero, but they can take care of themselves using their intelligence and their power.” —Gal Gadot
  • “Never apologize for being sensitive or emotional. Let this be a sign that you’ve got a big heart and aren’t afraid to let others see it. Showing your emotions is a sign of strength.” —Brigitte Nicole

Strong Black Woman Quotes

  • “Black girls rock because they can’t help themselves.” —Iyanla Vanzant
  • “I am dripping melanin and honey. I am black without apology.” —Upile Chisala
  • “Even if it makes others comfortable, I will LOVE who I am.” —Janelle Monae
  • “Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.” —Queen Latifah
  • “Don’t another person come up to me and say ‘you go girl’. No, you go!” —Maxine Waters
  • “Dipped in chocolate, bronzed in elegance, enamled with grace, toasted with beauty. My Lord, she’s a black woman.” —Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan
  • “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” —Dr. Angela Davis
  • “I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that.” —Megalyn Echikunwoke
  • “I didn’t learn to be quiet when I had an opinion. The reason they knew who I was is because I told them.” —Ursula Burns
  • “I consider myself a crayon. I might not be your favorite color, but one day you’re going to need me to complete your picture.” —Lauryn Hill
  • “As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn’t afraid to survive.” —LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
  • “But what of black women? I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so a devilish fire.” —W.E.B Du Bois
  • “I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.” —Manning Marable
  • “I am a black woman. The music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night.” —Mari Evans

Being a Strong Woman Quotes

  • “When I’m tired, I rest. I say, ‘I can’t be a superwoman today.’“ —Jada Pinkett Smith
  • “Speak up for yourself and what you believe in. You can still be an elegant woman and be strong and powerful.” —Misty Copeland
  • “I can’t believe my good fortune. I’m so grateful to be a Black woman. I would be so jealous if I were anything else.” —Maya Angelou
  • “I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.” —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Inspirational Determination Quotes for Woman

  • “You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you.” —Katie Couric
  • “A strong woman never blames others for her failures. She knows that she controls her own fate!”
  • “If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted, there is practically nothing she can’t do.” —Helen Lawrenson
  • “I raise up my voice—not so I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard.” —Malala Yousafzai
  • “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” —Jane Goodall
  • “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” —J.K. Rowling
  • “Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” —Gloria Steinem
  • “Feminism isn’t about making women strong. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength.” —G.D. Anderson
  • “And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” —Anaïs Nin
  • “You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female.’” —Erin McKean
  • “A strong woman always knows how to use all her exceptional abilities: the ability to seem weak and helpless while overpowering all with logic, intuition and empathy.”
  • “When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” —Audre Lord
  • “There is a stubbornness about me that can never bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” —Jane Austen
  • “We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave – to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential.” —Malala Yousafzai
  • “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.” —Abigail Adams
  • “I was a very focused and determined woman and I always got what I wanted. But once I had it, there was another future moment when I had to attain something else. These internal yearnings keep happiness in a future moment.” —Isha Judd
  • “If you’re one of those people who has that little voice in the back of her mind saying, ‘Maybe I could do [fill in the blank],’ don’t tell it to be quiet. Give it a little room to grow, and try to find an environment it can grow in.” —Reese Witherspoon

Confident Strong Woman Quotes

  • “There is nothing more beautiful than a confident woman.” —Suze Orman
  • “Have confidence in who you are and don’t be afraid to go for what you really want in life.” —Holland Roden
  • “It took a while to grow the confidence to say, ‘This is who I am, take it or leave it’.” —Coco Rocha
  • “I am capable, confident, intelligent, resilient and in charge. Health and happiness are my birthrights and I accept with gratitude.” —Kris Carr
  • “A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.” —Queen Latifah
  • “I love my curves. You know, I’m healthy and I think that’s what Sports Illustrated represents: healthy, confident women who love their bodies.” —Kate Upton
  • “Are men intimated by sexually confident women, you ask? I think men are intimated by any woman who says they are sexually confident, at no matter what age.” —Jennifer Aniston
  • “I just like ladies who have class… just be yourself and let your personality shine and let your individuality show. To me, that’s sexier. A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion.” —Queen Latifah
  • “When I’m single, I’m this fabulous, independent, confident woman, and then I get involved with one disastrous man after another and I turn into this needy, insecure, fearful girl who becomes frightened of her own shadow.” —Jane Green
  • “I’m a big perfectionist! I’m trying to channel super-confident women like Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey and Beyonce, because I realized that if you want something, you really have to go for it, just like they do.” —Ariana Grande
  • “Today begins a new saga in my life which I expect to strengthen me and allow me time for reflection… I plan to write music while in prison, read and pray regularly and will come out a stronger, more confident woman.” —Lil’ Kim
  • “If you are tired of living on the beaten path that everyone else walks, venture into the woods. Some people would be afraid they would get lost, but a confident woman expects to have a new experience that might be outrageously wonderful.” —Joyce Meyer

Passionate Strong Woman Quotes

  • “I’d like to play passionate women, but no one will let me.” —Russell Crowe
  • “She writes under her life. A woman more angry, passionate, reckless, and revengeful never lived.” —Charles Dickens
  • “A great woman has three identities: a lovely daughter, a passionate lover, and a kind mother.” —Debasish Mridha
  • “I’ve always been a multi-passionate woman, so my passion for business existed right alongside my passion for dance.” —Marie Forleo
  • “Jessica Lange in Frances… was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I’ve seen a woman do.” —Sherilyn Fenn
  • “A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.” —Betty Friedan
  • “I felt like I was literally losing myself as being the joyful, spiritual, passionate, exciting woman that I naturally had been.” —Tasha Smith
  • “Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.” —Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • “It’s my absolute passionate belief that every single human being, man, woman, or child, is aching to find a face-to-face relationship with God.” —Sheila Walsh
  • “I’ve never thought of myself as a female engineer or founder or a woman in tech. I just think of myself as someone who’s passionate.” —Leah Busque
  • “Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other’s person.” —Nathaniel Branden
  • “I believe a woman who loves herself is a powerful, passionate, attractive force and I commit from this day forward to love myself deeply and extravagantly.” —Jan Phillips
  • “When tempted to be unfaithful, the intellectual woman will try to inspire her husband with indifference, the sentimental woman with hatred, and the passionate woman with disgust.” —Honore de Balzac
  • “If you can find something that you’re really passionate about, whether you’re a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.” —Marissa Mayer
  • “Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.” —Jay Weatherill
  • “I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading.” —Amy Poehler
  • “The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she’d misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed, certainly believed in God and goodness, and kept an illicit collection of overdue library books on her shelves.” —Sherman Alexie
  • “I never heard the expression, “A strong man,” unless somebody was in the gym lifting a heavy barbell. Why is there a difference between being an ambitious, driven woman or passionate woman and a passionate man? That is something that has come up a lot.” —Megan Griffiths
  • “My personality is just innately even-keeled. I’m not such a huge daredevil. Which is not to say I’m not a passionate woman. I don’t know, maybe it’s my physiological makeup, but I don’t like the feeling of anything in my system, other than a glass of wine now and then.” —Vera Farmiga

Empowering Strong Woman Quotes

  • “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” —Estée Lauder
  • “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” —Anais Nin
  • “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” —Amelia Earhart
  • “If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” —Katharine Hepburn
  • “Power is not given to you. You have to take it.” —Beyonce Knowles
  • “If you can’t make it better, you can laugh at it.” —Erma Bombeck
  • “It’s possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.” —Taylor Swift
  • “We can do no great things, only small things with great love.” —Mother Teresa
  • “You have what it takes to be a victorious, independent, fearless woman.” —Tyra Banks
  • “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.” —Ingrid Bergman
  • “And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk more.” —Erica Jong
  • “Don’t be afraid to speak up for yourself. Keep fighting for your dreams.” —Gabby Douglas
  • “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.” —Louisa May Alcott
  • “Don’t be the girl who fell. Be the girl who got back up.” —Jenette Stanley
  • “You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.” —Melissa Etheridge
  • “Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.” —Byron Katie
  • “Power to me is the ability to make a change in a positive way.” —Victoria Justice
  • “Yes, I’m a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted, and tough.” —Zaha Hadid
  • “Not knowing you can’t do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.” —Ally Carter
  • “The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” —Ayn Rand
  • “I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.” —Coco Chanel
  • “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” —Alice Walker
  • “I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.” —Emma Stone
  • “Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be, so you can create a better world.” —Ashley Rickards
  • “No matter what you look like or think you look like you’re special and loved and perfect just the way you are.” —Ariel Winter
  • “It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.” —J. K. Rowling

Motivational Strong Woman Quotes

  • “Success breeds confidence.” —Beryl Markham
  • “Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.” —Rosalind Russell
  • “Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.” —Ruth Gordon
  • “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” —Simone de Beauvoir
  • “The best protection any woman can have … is courage.” —Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • “If you don’t like being a doormat then get off the floor.” —Al Anon
  • “Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses.” —Madame Marie du Deffand
  • “Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.” —J. K. Rowling
  • “Love is anterior to Life, Posterior to Death, Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth.” —Emily Dickinson
  • “You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” —Rosalynn Carter
  • “When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.” —Steffi Graf
  • “You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer.” —Byron Katie
  • “A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.” —Madonna
  • “You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.” —Erica Jong
  • “A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do. A woman must do what he can’t.” —Rhonda Hansome
  • “We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” —Marie Curie
  • “One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.” —Virginia Woolf
  • “Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.” —Margaret Thatcher
  • “A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” —Mother Teresa
  • “A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.” —Melinda Gates
  • “When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” —Helen Keller
  • “People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me.” —Princess Diana
  • “If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.” —Sheila Murray Bethel
  • “The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world see us and how we see ourselves successfully acknowledged by the world.” —Arlene Rankin
  • “A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts.” —Nancy Rathburn
  • “Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out.” —Anita Roddick
  • “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” —Helen Keller
  • “We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.” —Susan B. Anthony
  • “I want to do is because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” —Amelia Earhart
  • “Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, “She doesn’t have what it takes.” They will say, “Women don’t have what it takes.” —Clare Boothe Luce
  • “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
  • “It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union…. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.” —Susan B. Anthony
  • “I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “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.” —Susan B. Anthony
  • “I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming. Often, after hearing her speak at some function or working with her on a project, people will approach me and say something to the effect of, you know, I think the world of you, Barack, but your wife, wow!” —Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope

Spiritual Strong Woman Quotes

  • “When sleeping women wake, mountains move.” —Chinese Proverb
  • “Earth’s noblest thing,-a woman perfected.” —James Russell Lowell
  • “Curve: The loveliest distance between two points.” —Mae West
  • “For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.” —Virginia Woolf
  • “In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs.” —Francois Truffaut
  • “Women forgive injuries, but never forget slights.” —Thomas Chandler Haliburton
  • “The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.” —Gelett Burgess
  • “There is no such thing as an ugly woman.” —Vincent Van Gogh
  • “Failure is not the opposite of success; it’s part of success.” —Arianna Huffington
  • “In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
  • “The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.” —Helen Keller
  • “One woman reads another’s character without the tedious trouble of deciphering.” —Ben Jonson
  • “A woman is to be loved, not understood. That is the first understanding.” —Osho
  • “Because she competes with no one, no one can compete with her.” —Lao Tzu
  • “Honor women! They entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.” —Friedrich Schiller
  • “Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.” —Sophia Loren
  • “I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.” —Lillian Hellman
  • “A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.” —Elbert Hubbard
  • “Woman is the radiance of God. She is not a creature, she is the creator.” —Rumi
  • “Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.” —Erich Fromm
  • “Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
  • “I, Woman, am that wonder-breathing rose that blossoms in the garden of the King.” —Elsa Barker
  • “It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.” —Betty Friedan
  • “There’s a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.” —Melanie Griffith
  • “If women ruled the world and we all got massages, there would be no war.” —Carrie Snow
  • “As a woman, I have no country. As a woman my country is the world.” —Virginia Woolf
  • “A woman’s rank lies in the fullness of her womanhood: Therein alone she is royal.” —George Eliot
  • “A woman is like a delicate flower; if you treat her with care and respect, she will bloom.”
  • “A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.” —Arnold Haultain
  • “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.” —Brigham Young
  • “The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.” —Mary McLeod Bethune
  • “A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.” —Mignon McLaughlin
  • “God is never seen immaterially; and the vision of Him in woman is the most perfect of all.” —Rumi
  • “Women have the capacity to lead us to a more peaceful world with compassion, affection and kindness.” —Dalai Lama
  • “Women will work out their own destinies, much better too, than men can ever do for them.” —Swami Vivekananda
  • “Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.” —Oprah Winfrey
  • “It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.” —Katharine Hepburn
  • “Every woman is a spiritual leader. She leads the whole family into spirituality. Women are naturally spiritual.” —Shri Shri Ravishankar
  • “If you have yet to be called an incorrigible, defiant woman, don’t worry, there is still time.” —Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • “The special genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.” —Margaret Fuller
  • “What, Sir, would the people of the earth be without women? They would be scarce, Sir, almighty scarce.” —Mark Twain
  • “People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.” —Audrey Hepburn
  • “One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.” —Alice James
  • “If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.” —Henry Ward Beecher
  • “Feminism’s agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to ‘choose’ between public justice and private happiness.” —Susan Faludi
  • “If the feminine is lost on the planet, nothing of beauty, nothing of tenderness, nothing of truly aesthetic value will survive.” —Sadhguru
  • “Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.” —Mary McLeod Bethune
  • “Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.” —Erica Jong
  • “Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.” —Robert Bloch
  • “I guess at the end of the day, all women like to be appreciated and treated with respect and kindness.” —Sofia Vergara
  • “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good? Luckily, this is not difficult.” —Charlotte Whitton
  • “Loveliest of women! Heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Brightening each other! Thou art all divine!” —Joseph Addison
  • “I like being a woman, even in a man’s world. After all, men can’t wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.” —Whitney Houston
  • “Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.” —Neil Gaiman
  • “The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted how a job can be terrific and torturous.” —Anna Quindlen
  • “Don’t wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality.” —Mark Twain
  • “Don’t be intimidated by what you don’t know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else.” —Sara Blakely
  • “The idea that women are inferior to men is absurd. When a man is born of a woman, how can he be superior and she inferior?” —Sadhguru
  • “A woman is one of the most beautiful phenomena in the world, not to be compared with anything else. The woman is the masterpiece of God.” —Osho
  • “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” —Rosa Parks
  • “It is the duty of each one of us to be a holy woman. We shall have elevated aims, if we are holy women.” —Eliza R. Snow
  • “The education and empowerment of women throughout the world cannot fail to result in a more caring, tolerant, just and peaceful life for all.” —Aung San Suu Kyi
  • “Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day.” —Arsene Houssaye
  • “I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.” —Katharine Hepburn
  • “The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.” —Nellie L. McClung
  • “Woman’s degradation is in man’s idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.” —Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • “I’d much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they’re the first to be rescued off sinking ships.” —Gilda Radner
  • “Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together – and they call the result intuition.” —Agatha Christie
  • “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.” —Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
  • “One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.” —Marlo Thomas
  • “The full and complete development of the world and the cause of peace requires the maximum participation of women as well as men in all fields.” —United Nations Declaration on Elimination of Discrimination against Women
  • “The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want’?” —Sigmund Freud
  • “One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.” —Jean Kerr
  • “Women are more powerful than they think. A mother’s warmth is the essence of motivation. If we could liquefy the encouragement, care and compassion we deliver to our children it would surely fill an expanse greater than the Pacific.” —Louise Burfitt-Dons
  • “Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can’t be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.” —Helen Rowland
  • “Woman is the highest, holiest, most precious gift to man. Her mission and throne is the family, and if anything is withheld that would make her more efficient, useful, or happy in that sphere, she is wronged, and has not her rights.” —John Todd
  • “I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.” —Audre Lorde
  • “I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.” —Rose Kennedy
  • “Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.” —Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • “Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Everything we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.” —Kahlil Gibran
  • “No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter….” —Victoria Woodhull
  • “Christ has lifted woman to a new place in the world. And just in proportion as Christianity has sway, will she rise to a higher dignity in human life. What she has now, and what she shall have, of privilege and true honor, she owes to that gospel which took those qualities peculiarly and which had been counted weak and unworthy, and gave them a Divine glory in Christ.” —Herrick Johnson
  • “Here is my wish for you and every other child, woman, and man on the face of the earth: Spend one week saying only kind, caring things to yourself. Say thank you at least ten times an hour, direct five toward yourself and five to the world at large. Compliment yourself (and others) each time an effort is made. Notice all the wonderful qualities and characteristics about yourself and those around you. One week. You will never go back. And your whole life will be a glorious meditation.” —Cheri Huber

Strong Woman Quotes and Sayings

  • “Women are fed with love, strengthened by hatred.”
  • “Women are professional, men are amateur.” —Francois Truffaut
  • “No pressure, no diamonds.” —Mary Case, indie film screenwriter
  • “A woman is of the age she deserves.” —Coco Chanel
  • “A strong woman has few friends, more spectators and enemies.”
  • “When women love us, they forgive our every fault.” —Balzac
  • “Everything we see on earth is the work of women.” —Ataturk
  • “Women are made to be loved, not to understand.” —Oscar Wilde
  • “There are only two types of women, goddesses and mats.” —Pablo Picasso
  • “As always, behind every stupid man is a perfect woman.” —John Lennon
  • “Unlike men, women begin to desire after they love.” —Henry De Montherland
  • “Women are like roses, once opened, their leaves begin to fall off immediately.” —Shakespeare
  • “No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.” —Michael Cadnum
  • “The king may rule the kingdom, but it’s the queen who moves the board.”
  • “I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.” —Mary Wollstonecraft
  • “Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.” —Unknown
  • “If you give a woman the right shoes, she can even conquer the world.” —Marilyn Monroe
  • “Women laugh when they can laugh and cry whenever they want. This is the power.” —Venezuelan
  • “If there were no women, the money in the world would be worth nothing.” —Aristotle Onassis
  • “Woman! The woman who wipes her tears herself is the most powerful creature in life.” —Yusuf Ozer
  • “Women do not cry because they are weak. They cry for being strong for a long time.”
  • “Being a woman is a very difficult job because they have to deal with men.” —Joseph Conrad
  • “Women present themselves to the weak as an idol, to the strong as an item.” —Cesera pavese
  • “I’m used to breaking and spilling. And to get back together.” —That’s why I’m such a strong woman!
  • “A woman would rather see the man she loves dying than seeing another woman happy.” —Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • “A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.” —Carly Simon
  • “A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.” —Marge Piercy
  • “Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness.” —Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand
  • “Woman; For those who do not know it is ‘soul’, for those who know it is ‘breath’.” —Shams Tabrizi
  • “Strong woman’s secret; He cries, wipes his tears himself, dyes his hair, repairs his head, smiles. And continues life.”
  • “Accept the air as it comes, as the wind blows, and the woman as it is.” —Alfred de Musset
  • “The tears of a sobbing woman are the signature of what will happen to the crying man.” —Charles bukowski
  • “To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do.” —Spanish Proverb
  • “It is a man who does what he does, and a woman who does what he puts on his mind.”
  • “You can never deceive a strong woman, it makes you believe that you are deceiving them if they want to.”
  • “If a woman is silent even though she has a lot to say, she has lost all chances.” —Pablo neruda
  • “The beauty of an honest woman is like fire; it does no harm to those who do not approach Cervantes
  • “A woman does not choose to be a strong woman, in fact, she is only constantly forced to be strong.”
  • “It is called a man who does what he does and a woman who does what he puts on his mind.
  • “Woman is like the shadow of man; If you chase, they run, if you run, they chase.” —François Rene de Chateaubriand
  • “If women ruled the world, there would be no war, but deep negotiations would take place every 28 days.” —Robin williams
  • “The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.” —Bella Abzug
  • “She does not flinch from the caress, because she feels very strong. She walks everywhere she goes but is never tired.” —Anna Keesey
  • “In fact, both men and women, that is, humans, are born strong, but the important thing is to be able to use that power.”
  • “There are three things that can be done about women. You can love him, suffer for him, or translate him into literature.” —Henry miller
  • “Don’t forget that women like the man who makes them laugh is a lie. Because women only laugh at the men they like.” —Can Dundar
  • “Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.” —Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor
  • “Strong women; He does not put into his glass that he cannot drink, his tongue that he cannot do, and his heart that he cannot love.”
  • “A beautiful woman looks good to the eye, a good woman to the heart, the first is a diamond, the second is a treasure.” —Napoleon Bonaparte
  • “A woman is strong actually. Even it is much stronger than men. But he wants the power of the man to give him peace.” —Can Dundar
  • “Women supposedly have no political power; wise women, however, get their stupid husbands into parliament without any difficulty, or even sit in ministerial seats.” —Bernard Shaw
  • “I didn’t choose to be a strong woman. I was constantly forced to be strong. That is why my current ungrateful attitude should not offend anyone.”
  • “Strong women need not declare they can carry all the burdens in life. They just quietly do it and survive with a smile.” —Princess Maleiha Bajunaid Candao
  • “If you want to be a strong woman, never settle for what you know. Act with the thought that you can learn something from everyone in your life.”
  • “Gold that does not spoil in the face of fire, a woman that does not spoil against gold, a man who does not spoil before a woman; quality.” —Gorky
  • “If a woman is only dreaming and unable to realize her dreams, she is a weak woman, but the woman who goes beyond her dreams is a strong woman.”
  • “My mother used to say that you should never be afraid and fearful before you struggle against something that you are right and know right, it will make you stronger.”
  • “If a person goes over something he fears and defeats him, he will get too much power from it and be prepared for the fears that will come from now on.”
  • “A strong woman builds her own world. She is one who is wise enough to know that it will attract the man she will gladly share it with.” —Ellen J. Barrier
  • “The woman who stands upright against life, struggles with determination without being tired of any difficulties, and does not give up when faced with an obstacle, pekguzelsozler.com is a smart and knowledgeable woman.”
  • “With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude and inner fulfillment.”
  • “I think beauty comes from within. If you’re happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.” —Faith Hill
  • “Somebody who’s really comfortable with who she is and doesn’t care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves.” —Brian Austin Green
  • “Women’s strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.” —William Moulton Marston