Strong Women Quotes - Page 11

• I wish I'd known from the beginning that I was born a strong woman. What a difference it would have made! I wish I'd known that I was born a courageous woman; I've spent so much of my life cowering. How many conversations would I not only have started but finished if I had known I possessed a warrior's heart? I wish I'd known that I'd be born to take on the world; I wouldn't have run from it for so long, but run to it with open arms.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Running, Heart, Warrior

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (1999). “Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self”, G K Hall & Company

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• The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Inspiring, Sorry, Successful

  Twitter post from Mar 25, 2017

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• You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Inspiring, Drawing, Live Your Life

  "Grey's Anatomy". www.imdb.com. 2005-.

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• I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

  B. Smith

  Inspiring, Mountain

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• You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

  Chris Evert

  Inspiring, Giving Up, Ifs

  "Tennis great Chris Evert finds new life on the court" by Liz Clarke, www.washingtonpost.com. January 18, 2012.

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• We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

  Marie Curie

  Strength, Confidence, Perseverance

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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• Basically I'm trying to make men more sensitive and women stronger.

  Miuccia Prada

  Trying, Stronger, Sensitive

  Interview with Sonnet Stanfill, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2012.

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• I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

  David Bailey

  Strong, Men, Equal

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• How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

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  If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

  RuPaul

  Beauty, Being Yourself, Love You

  Song: Can I Get an Amen, Album: Born Naked

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• If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts.

  Sharon Needles

  Ghost, Applause, Stage

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• Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

  Bella Abzug

  Equality, Heartless, Being A Strong Woman

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• Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Graduation, Giving Up

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• Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn’t need a man; be that girl who never backed down.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Stay Strong, Independent

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• Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.

  Anne Rice

  Strong, Unpredictable

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• ...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)

  Nora Roberts

  Needs, Arms, Glory

  "Glory In Death". Book by J. D. Robb, 1995.

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• You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Funny Inspirational, Motivation

  "Bossypants". Book by Tina Fey, April 5, 2011.

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• For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Mad, May, Revolution

  Jennifer Donnelly (2010). “Revolution”, p.199, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Happy girls are the prettiest girls.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Happiness, Beauty, Being Strong

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• Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Being Single, Favors

  1817 Letter to Fanny Knight,13 Mar.

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• I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

  Erykah Badu

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Long

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• The woman must be restored to her rightful place, as the strong, loving maternal leader of peace and reason.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Strong, Leader, Reason

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• I raise up my voice-not so I can shout but so that those without a voice can be heard...we cannot succeed when half of us are held back.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Motivational, Voice, Empowering

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• “I'm not going anywhere.” Gently, he stroked her back, cradled her head. Was there anything more astounding or more frightening to a man, he wondered, than a strong woman in tears? “I've been right here all along. I love you, Eve, almost more than I can stand.” “I need you. I can't help it. I don't want to.” “I know. He eased back, tucking a hand under her chin to lift her face to his. “We’re going to have to deal with it.” He kissed one wet cheek, then the other. “I really can’t do without you.“

  Nora Roberts

  Love You, Hands, Tears

  "Glory in Death". Book by Nora Roberts, December 1995.

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• I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

  Lucille Ball

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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