Strong Women Quotes

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  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

  Equality, White, Rights

  Motto of The Revolution (newspaper), 8 Jan. 1868

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  Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• I might bend, but I will NEVER break because it's in my nature as a strong woman.

  Angela Merkel

  Might, Break, Strong

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• Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.

  Simone Schwarz-Bart

  Betrayal, Smart, Betrayed

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• We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.

  Kavita Ramdas

  Education, Passion, Humble

  "'Having it all doesn't mean doing it all': Women's grad advice to women" by Eun Kyung Kim, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• 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.

  John Steinbeck

  Being Strong, Believe, Heart

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.314, Penguin

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• Strong women leave big hickies

  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong, Bigs

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• Be gentle, kind and beautiful, yet firm and strong, both mentally and physically.

  Keiko Fukuda

  Beautiful, Strong, Kind

  Keiko Fukuda (1973). “Born for the Mat: A Kodokan Kata Textbook for Women”

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  I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

  William Golding

  Thinking, Novelists, Men And Women

  YouTube Chanel "AbecedariusRex"/ "Golding's Introduction to Lord of the Flies", www.youtube.com. May 22, 2010.

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  The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Quoted in Providence Journal-Bulletin, 8 June 1994

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• A strong women is someone who is able to smile this morning like she wasn't crying last night.

  Harriet Morgan

  Morning, Night, Able

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  "Strange Angels". Book by Lilith Saintcrow, 2009.

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  Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

  Nora Ephron

  Life, Inspiring, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jun 26, 2012

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  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

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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• The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

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• 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

  Moving On, Spiritual, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 01, 2009

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• I hope the strong women out there aren't quiet and they don't go away, because when people attack you for speaking, the best way to drive them nuts is to smile and carry on speaking, louder, more wisely, more intensely, more articulately than ever.

  Neil Gaiman

  Nuts, People, Going Away

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• Good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt.

  Michelle Obama

  Hurt, Good Relationship, Feel Good

  Remarks by the First Lady at an Event with Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Students, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 25, 2011.

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• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't make them all yourself.

  Usher

  Funny Inspirational, Mistake, Funny Motivational

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

  Calamity Jane

  Motivational, Girl, Want

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• Life has no romance without risk.

  Sarah Doherty

  Life, Adventure, Romance

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

  Ruth Benedict

  Inspirational, Motivational, Speaks Out

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

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• Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

  Mae Jemison

  Inspiring, History, Imagination

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