Quotes About Female Strength

#1. It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.

Meghan O'Rourke

#2. Some women seem so voluptuous in every sense, richly bountiful and fertile with generous gifts of plenty, sensual and confident in their female strength that they are called "earth mothers."
That's how some days feel - when they are bountiful and fertile with the power of our imagination.

Vera Nazarian

#3. The ethereal beauty of the female semblance conceals that they really are dangerous like a great white shark in the most peaceful and deep water.
(quote from the exhibit at the Cultural Museum)

Czon

#4. Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

A. N. Wilson

#5. I wrote this book for the Nelson Mandela's of our communities who are willing to stand up for change and people who are oppressed or suppressed from fulfilling their life's purpose

Sahndra Fon Dufe

#6. Men may consider a female like a book and try judging her by the cover but she is not the book but the author of the destiny of mankind.

Amit Abraham

#7. The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems.

Willem Dafoe

#8. To all the women I say, don't ask to be saved by anyone, "my brave baghinis" (tigresses). Remember, if you deem yourselves as sheeps, men will treat you as such, but if you deem yourselves as tigresses, then you are the ones who will shape humanity.

Abhijit Naskar

#9. It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.'"

P459

Veronica Roth

#10. My strength as a singer is my versatility. I find it really frustrating when I'm only expected to show off. The music industry is awash with female acrobats. What happens to the song, and treating it for its sake and not as an ego example?

Alison Moyet

#11. Letti wasn't born to pass through the world. She had been born to sit atop of it.

S.R. Crawford

#12. In a world where masculinity is respected and femininity is regularly dismissed, it takes an enormous amount of strength and confidence for any person, whether female- or male-bodied, to embrace their feminine self.

Julia Serano

#13. I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart. The heart is what's important.

Burl Ives

#14. In trans women's eyes, I see a wisdom that can only come from having to fight for your right to be recognized as female, a raw strength that only comes fro unabashedly asserting your right to be feminine in an inhospitable world.

Julia Serano

#15. The sentence is the greatest human invention of civilization.

John Banville

#16. The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

Bell Hooks

#17. The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

Samuel Johnson

#18. If there had been another female for him since we arrived in Salvation, I needed to cut off all her hair and beat her half to death. The strength of that impulse scared me, and I took a step back. Deuce the girl was every bit as vicious as the Huntress, it seemed

Ann Aguirre

#19. It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

Franz Grillparzer

#20. I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

Kamisese Mara

#21. Aylin had gotten under his skin, and for all his experience fighting enemies, he had no defense against a female whose strength humbled him, whose voice soothed him, and whose touch drove him wild.

Larissa Ione

#22. I prefer people to consider me by who I am and what I do and not by how I look!

Gayathri Jayakumar

#23. One thing you can say about him is that he's appreciative. He's just happy having someone to sit with.

Bette Greene

#24. I hate society's notion that there is something wrong with sex. Something wrong with a woman who loves sex.

Alessandra Torre

#25. Tolerating women is surprisingly easier than understanding them.

Raheel Farooq

#26. India can progress only by the reinforcement of the women.

Abhijit Naskar

#27. The female body was designed as a source of pleasure, fertility, movement, strength and wellbeing.

Christiane Northrup

#28. 'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.

Benjamin Millepied

#29. My mom is an art teacher and is very much into the performing arts. What can I say? She is the female in my life and has guided me on how to act and conduct myself. A lot of my strength comes from her.

Erin Andrews

#30. It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

Miranda Richardson

#31. The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine - vulnerability and strength - is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.

RuPaul

#32. Hasten Little Maiden
...
stop and listen
for pearls of wisdom
stop and listen
as the river glistens ...

Muse

#33. There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

Logan Pearsall Smith