Quotes By and About Strong Women

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Words of wisdom often strike a deep chord in our hearts, giving us a glimpse of a world from where we can derive courage, inspiration and joy, especially in moments of adversity and despair. The speeches, the sentences and the words that have hailed woman as the creator of the Universe are indeed true, because as we walk through the journey of life, we can't resist to be in awe of the might of women.

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A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. - George Jean Nathan


A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult. It's complicated by the fact that in most nations women receive substantially less education than men. - Melinda Gates

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. - Margaret Thatcher

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him. - Marilyn Monroe

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

Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead. - Paula White

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences. - J. K. Rowling

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. - Louisa May Alcott

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

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
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. - Anais Nin

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

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. - Sojourner Truth

It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always. - Oprah Winfrey

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

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around. - Katharine Hepburn

Love is anterior to Life, Posterior to Death, Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth. - Emily Dickinson

Love one person, take care of them until you die. You know, raise kids. Have a good life. Be a good friend. And try to be completely who you are. And figure out what you personally love. And like go after it with everything you've got no matter how much it takes. - Angelina Jolie

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

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. - Virginia Woolf
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One's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring results. - Florence Nightingale

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

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future. - Audrey Hepburn

Rise to the occasion which is life! - Virginia Euwer Wolff

Sometimes questions are more important than answers. - Nancy Willard

The greater your capacity to love, the greater your capacity to feel the pain. - Jennifer Aniston

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him. - Helen Rowland

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. - Lucretia Mott

To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give. That takes courage, because we don't want to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to hurt. - Madonna

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. - Marie Curie
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What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you'd be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change? - Karen Salmansohn

When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end. - Stephenie Meyer, Bella Swan in Twilight

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

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. - Elayne Boosler

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system. - Kalpana Chawla, American-Indian scientist and astronaut

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win. - Steffi Graf

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. - Barbara De Angelis

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

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness. - Julia Roberts

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

The strong women quotes in this article are a compilation of some selected quotes about the power of women. Hundreds of thousands of women who have left their footprints on the sands of time, have also graced this world with their wit, humor, charm, beauty, love and wisdom.

These independent quotes for women are truly remarkable and reading them gives a message about women power and their immense value in our lives! Hope these quotes will turn out to be motivational for women! Buzzle salutes the power of women!


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