Strong Women Quotes - Page 5

• When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up already. It takes a tremendous amount of fortitude to be able to live in this world as a woman, let alone a woman who wants things to change.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Change, Silly, Feminist

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• Doing something for yourself like running, and using it to test yourself, will only make you feel better about your career or your family role.

  Joan Benoit

  Family, Fitness, Running

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• I have found that women are not only just as much interested as men are in flying, but apparently have less fear than the men have. At least, more women than men asked to go up with me. And when I took them up, they seemed to enjoy it.

  Katherine Stinson

  Fear, Flying, Aviation

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• I believe that history is not made by cynics. It is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.

  Tzipi Livni

  Dream, Believe, People

  "Kerry Hopes To Defy Skeptics Of Mideast Peace Talks". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. July 31, 2013.

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  Running is a road to self-awareness and reliance-you can push yourself to extremes and learn the harsh reality of your physical and mental limitations or coast quietly down a solitary path watching the earth spin beneath your feet.

  Doris Brown Heritage

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

  Anne Sweeney

  Positive, Inspiring, Success

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• Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

  Anne Frank

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

  Brigham Young

  Family, Education, School

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• Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

  Janis Joplin

  Inspirational, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• 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

  Janis Joplin

  Lonely, Home, Ideas

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• If you have something about yourself that's different, you're lucky. It's not a curse.

  Taylor Swift

  Strong Girl, Different, Lucky

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

  Steffi Graf

  Funny, Sports, Volleyball

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• The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

  Coco Chanel

  Strength, Inspiring, Courage

  "Believing in Ourselves" by Armand Eisen, (p. 39), 1992.

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• I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 04, 2013

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• I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.

  Ginni Rometty

  Positive, Inspiring, Inspiration

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• Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Running, Country, Children

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• In a lot of roles, strong women feel like they need to apologize. But men don't need to apologize for being ruthless and women somehow do?

  Rodrigo Santoro

  Needs, Roles, Apologizing

  Source: collider.com

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• Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

  Natalie Martinez

  Strong, Being A Strong Woman, Latina

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• When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

  Ang Lee

  Strong, Character, Stories

  "Ang Lee and James Schamus". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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• I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.

  Brad Garrett

  Strong, Strong Love, Crafts

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• I represent more the healthy, happy, curvy, strong woman. And that sounds much healthier to me than being 80 pounds and skinny as a bean.

  Heidi Klum

  Healthy, Pounds, Skinny

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• I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Strong, Models, Five

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• Get over the feeling that the two words don’t go together - women and power. The fact is, if we don’t put the two together, and don’t understand how power changes complexion in the hands of women, then we’re not going to make it.

  Jane Fonda

  Hands, Two, Feelings

  "Hillary, Condi, Aung Sun Suu Kyi and You" by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2, 2007.

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• I get very frustrated when I hear women saying, "Oh, feminism is passé," because I think feminism means empowerment. Men can be feminists, too! Many men are feminists. We need feminism. It's not against men; it's about the empowerment of women. It's the respect of women - giving women equal rights, the same opportunities.

  Annie Lennox

  Mean, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Annie Lennox Raises Her Voice". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2008.

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• Beautiful princesses and beautiful, strong queens are brainwashed into thinking ho’s and B****’s are virtuous titles.

  Delano Johnson

  Beautiful, Queens, Princess

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