Quotes on Strong Women

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

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

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

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!

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

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons.

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.

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

The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.

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

Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming... Often, after hearing her speak at some function or working with her on a project, people will approach me and say something to the effect of "You know, I think the world of you, Barack, but your wife... wow!"

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.

I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother... Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.

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

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.

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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.

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.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started