Strong Women Quotes - Page 12

• I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

  Robert Jordan

  Boys, Weak Man, Waste

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• A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail.

  Marge Piercy

  Blue, Oxygen, Wind

  Marge Piercy (2013). “Moon Is Always Female”, p.77, Knopf

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• When you're through changing you're through.

  Bruce Barton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "On the Story" with Mary Snow, edition.cnn.com. August 27, 2005.

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• We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Sad

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• I’ve often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there’s a fight to be won. If a woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.

  Karen Hawkins

  Children, Home, Fighting

  FaceBook post by Karen Hawkins from Jan 13, 2013

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• I don't really stay away from politics but the bullshit just gets to be too much. Any political tweets I take down after an hour or so. They are met with such a wall of stupidity and anger, it is hardly worth it to leave it up. Particularly, if you say anything about Hillary Clinton, the responses are just nuts - "YOU JUST FEAR SMART, STRONG WOMEN, MR. MAN".

  John Lurie

  Wall, Smart, Bullshit

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Strong women only marry weak men.

  Bette Davis

  Girly, Weak Man, Glitter

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• Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

  Elizabeth I

  Sex, Rocks, Wind

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• The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

  Amelia Earhart

  Jobs, Winning, Sisterhood

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• Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

  Emily Dickinson

  Love, Life, Wedding

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.248, First Avenue Editions

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• I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.

  Fantasia Barrino

  Mom, Trying, Looks

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• What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

  Thomas Hardy

  Strength, Tess Of The D Urbervilles, Weak

  Thomas Hardy (1874). “Far From the Madding Crowd”, p.221, Henry Holt

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• My mother is such an incredibly strong woman. She raised a family of five boys extremely well. She made us all strong, loving, caring people. We all support each other. I'm really thankful to her.

  Henry Cavill

  Mother, Caring, Boys

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• Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams.

  Lady Gaga

  Dream, Inspiration, Humor

  "Lada Gaga Offers Career, Love Advice". pagesix.com. February 28, 2010.

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• No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

  Martha Beck

  Inspiring, Pain, Soul

  Martha Beck (2005). “Leaving the Saints: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith”, p.228, Broadway Books

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• 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 not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Empowering, Curiosity, Empowerment

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• 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

  Good Life, Kids, Good Friend

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

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• My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.

  Jane Goodall

  Girl, Mother, Dream

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• It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like you and me humiliated. They cannot forgive us that we triumphed where so many others fail...Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat and destroy us.

  Isabel Allende

  Wife, Forgiving, Balance

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• If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.

  Gloria Steinem

  Crazy, Differences, Support

  "Celebrating Gloria Steinem’s 80th Birthday" by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2014.

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• Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we are invincible.

  Isabel Allende

  Circles, Risk, Together

  "Isabel Allende, Loung Ung and the Power of Memoir" by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 8, 2008.

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• Let's be clear, I'm a strong woman.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Strong, Clear

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• The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

  James A. Garfield

  Teacher, Encouragement, Appreciation

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• Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

  George Weinberg

  Struggle, Fighting, Independence

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