Quotes About A Strong Willed Woman

#1. One of the things that made Star Wars work was the kids didn't know who their dad was.

Mark Millar

#2. I needed another sibling the way I needed a sixth toe. Or a twelfth toe. You know, an extra one on each foot. Never mind.

Kate Carlisle

#3. My mother was a strong-willed and opinionated woman - a Sicilian! - and if she didn't like something, she'd let you know about it. So her undying support of her kids went a long way in proving to us that we were on the right path.

Marlo Thomas

#4. Historical exegesis is only the preliminary part of interpretation; application is its essence. Exegesis without application should not be called interpretation at all.

J.I. Packer

#5. I've only been interested in the artistic side of life.

Elton John

#6. I like challenge. I like to be put into a situation which I haven't done before. Something new presents itself and I see if I can somehow finagle it into making a work of art out of it.

Robert Barry

#7. With how sad steps, O moon, thou climb'st the skies!
How silently, and with how wan a face!

Philip Sidney

#8. No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

Edouard Manet

#9. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own with greater contentment.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

#10. What kind of nation are we when we give tax breaks to billionaires, but we can't take care of the elderly and the children.

Bernie Sanders

#11. Wherever I was in the world, at the beginning of every consulting project, one thing was certain: I would know less about the business at hand than the people I was supposed to be advising.

Matthew Stewart

#12. [My mother is] a half-Chinese, half-Jamaican woman, who grew up the ninth of nine kids, getting a law degree from Harvard. Academically brilliant, but also incredibly strong-willed and ethical. My mother was like that, my sister is, and my wife is too.

Harry Connick Jr.

#13. About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.

Edna Ferber

#14. There is hardly anything more confusing than a really strong-willed woman and when you are surrounded by two of them in the midst of trying to save the world, it really adds to some drama!

Austin Butler

#15. By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, and being a strong-willed woman, she had succeeded. She had missed dying on her birthday by two days.

John Berendt

#16. She didn't recognize him and he didn't recognize her, because people and places change and what once was will never be again.

T.C. Boyle

#17. The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.

Laozi

#18. I know I've abandoned the Amish lifestyle, but I still keep a lot of those beliefs ... I know I've stepped outside the boundaries a lot of times, but I still try to remember what's important to me.

Kate Stoltzfus

#19. Ronan woke up the following morning with a terrible hangover and a huge sense of regret. He had hurt the woman he loves most in the world and he knew Katie was very strong willed and didn't forgive easily.

Annette J. Dunlea