Quotes on Strong Independent Women

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

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.

My mustrious lordship, i'll show you what a woman can do

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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.

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

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

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

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

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

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.