Strong Minded Quotes - Page 2

• My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their own characters and were very strong-minded. I gave them a lot of freedom when they were still very young. The one thing they got from me is morals. They would never betray anyone. They are really good people.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Strong, Children, Character

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• Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Strong, Men, Ideas

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.394, Delphi Classics

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• Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.

  Stella Gibbons

  Strong, Cold Comfort Farm, Restful

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• An editor has to be selfless, and yet has also to be strong-minded.

  Robert Gottlieb

  Strong, Editors, Selfless

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• She looks at herself in the mirror. The idea is to look sexy again. And for whom exactly? Yourself, of course. Yes, well, that's all wonderfully self-affirming and very strong-minded as any decent woman should be these days, but let's just face facts here and say that when a woman - no, when a person is thinking about feeling sexy, it is always with the idea of someone else in mind.

  Joshua Ferris

  Sexy, Strong, Thinking

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• Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they'd seen the need for gods as the sort of supernatural equivalent of a hard hat. Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it's nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, "Oh, random-fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!" or "Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!

  Terry Pratchett

  Religious, Atheist, Strong

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• I show through my movies that I can do something else. But I always play strong-minded characters. I think it's maybe because I'm like that. I love being by myself.

  Audrey Tautou

  Strong, Character, Love Is

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Educate, that you might be free. We are most anxious to get the quiet, strong minded people who are scattered throughout the country to see the force of this great truth.

  Thomas Davis

  Country, Strong, People

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• [Music] business can drive you to do that if you don't have it here. If you're not strong-minded here, it could steer you the wrong way and when it steers you the wrong way, then it might take forever to get back.

  Bow Wow

  Strong, Forever, Might

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• No one has ever asked an actor, 'You're playing a strong-minded man.' We assume that men are strong-minded, or have opinions. But a strong-minded woman is a different animal.

  Meryl Streep

  Strong, Animal, Men

  "The many Meryls". "60 minutes" with Morley Safer, www.cbsnews.com. January 23, 2012.

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