Quotes on Strong Women

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.

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.

Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.

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

Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it's like you don't ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it's kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

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