Quotes About Badass Women

#1. The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop.

Jeanine Tesori

#2. Hollywood wants to make women so perfect. Perfect hair. Perfect job. Perfect manners ... I know some of the most beautiful women, and they are so weird. That's what makes them funny and captivating.

Melissa McCarthy

#3. With his buzz-cut black hair, muscles and menagerie of tattoos, the man looked like he lived in a cave and sanded timber with his head and flung innocent young women down on beds and had his wicked way with them.

Cari Silverwood

#4. Women hate each other in science. You know why? Because the few that are around were trained by men. They survived by being twice as good and twice as competitive and twice as badass as the guys.

Allegra Goodman

#5. W-what are you?"
Selena looked down at her rival. "What you should have been and never were. The Queen of the Witches.

Anne Bishop

#6. Numbing the senses by monotonously repeating an assertion is a key element in utilizing mind control techniques.

Joost Meerloo

#7. This year women learned that if we aren't at the table, we're on the menu.

Cecile Richards

#8. I've never once thought about the interpretative, the storytelling aspect of life, of my life. I always felt like I was in a story, yes, but not like I was the author of it, or like I had any say in its telling whatsoever. You can tell your story any way you damn well please. It's your solo.

Jandy Nelson

#9. You drop my name again, I'll hunt you down and cut off everything that protrudes from your body. You get me?

Kristen Ashley

#10. Don't let your character change color with your environment. Find out who you are and let it stay its true color.

Rachel Scott

#11. I like tuna when there's a definite streak of deep pink in the middle, medium rare so to speak, and it comes out best when it's not cut too thick.

Geoffrey Zakarian

#12. This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight ... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.

Barbara Walters

#13. Wasn't friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?

Hanya Yanagihara

#14. Life turns to be colorless when people you trust the most ignore in times of sorrow.

Srinivas Shenoy

#15. I've never been much for tears, anyway.

Ed Brubaker

#16. The only thing that separates women of color from everyone else is opportunity.

Viola Davis

#17. We work on macro issues and macaroni and cheese issues. When women are in the halls of power, our national debate reflects the needs and dreams of American families.

Barbara Mikulski

#18. Healthy moms mean healthy families. When my Republican colleagues held a hearing about birth control and refused to include a single woman on the first panel as a witness, I asked, "Where are the women?"

Carolyn Maloney

#19. You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

Lupita Nyong'o

#20. People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them.

Paulo Coelho

#21. I'm Nancy Pelosi, but my grandchildren call me Mimi. For me, politics is an extension of my role as a mother and a grandmother. For the Democratic women of the House, our work is not about the next election, but rather the next generation.

Nancy Pelosi

#22. You are the Worst Kind of Animal. A Butcher by Day and a Pussy Cat by Night.

Monroe Ariel

#23. Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#24. When I try to achieve greatness, it spits on me the night before.

Monroe Ariel

#25. President Obama pushed for fairness in the military, listening to commanders as we ended Don't Ask Don't Tell, and on how to allow women to officially serve in more combat jobs. Because America's daughters are just as capable of defending liberty as her sons!

Tammy Duckworth

#26. Alanna Carrington, head witch of the Philadelphia Coven, hurtled his way, and with her, trouble was a guarantee.

Katherine McIntyre

#27. You don't even know me, or what I am capable of, boy.

S.R. Crawford

#28. It hurts to care; the courage to care is the profoundest courage there is.

Julia Hill

#29. Where are the women? The women are here.

Carolyn Maloney

#30. There's a certain fast-food approach to the whole music thing that's changed the role it plays for us all. You are doing it while you are doing other things. Not that that is new - people have had music on in the background as long as there has been music.

Tom Waits

#31. think of that? Maybe I want to

Elle Kennedy

#32. Zalachenko ... you're just an ordinary asshole who hates women.

Stieg Larsson

#33. So, it was nice knowing me?

E.L. James

#34. No disrespect to the fire god, naturally; blame it instead on His administration, presumably made up of officers of roughly the same level of ability as their terrestial counterparts. That would explain why the mild storm she'd ordered for Oida hit her instead.

K.J. Parker

#35. People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.

William Hazlitt

#36. Wherever we halted we were surrounded by wandering troops of Bedouins.

Richard Francis Burton

#37. Ah well. He'd beaten her twice sind then: once on their honeymoon, though he still suspected her of throwing the game, and once on the day she lost the baby. And two out of eight hundred and six wasn't too bad, against such an opponent.

K.J. Parker