Top 100 Quotes About Strong Women
#1. Empowering Women 101-- A strong women knows that cheating isn't a mistake; it's a choice. The choice was made long before you found out.
Shannon L. Alder
#2. God is glorified not by calling strong women but by giving His strength to weak women.
Lydia Brownback
#3. We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.
Joanna Garcia
#4. I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.
Caitlyn Jenner
#5. Powerful men need a woman as a sign of their power. Strong women do not need a man, she either wants him or she doesn't.
Chloe Thurlow
#6. If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women
Barack Obama
#7. Running to Mommy and Daddy on the campus grievance committee is unworthy of strong women.
Camille Paglia
#8. Strong women can be so underappreciated unless you're screaming for their help.
Robyn Carr
#9. When I grew up, it was a time when women were just supposed to be cute and not have many opinions. My mother and her friends were quite different. They were all the most beautiful women you've ever seen, and they were very strong women.
Cher
#10. I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.
Molly Parker
#11. Kate Winslet is incredible. She's so lovely and so flexible, and she's got three kids, and she's flying internationally to work. It's amazing to see strong women doing what they want to do and doing it well.
Sarah Snook
#12. Critics often say, 'Oh she makes films about strong women'. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make.
Gillian Armstrong
#13. There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'
Gal Gadot
#14. You know, all through the centuries, pathetic men have abused strong women who threaten their masculinity,
Gillian Flynn
#15. I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.
Robert Jordan
#16. We don't think only men can be powerful and strong. Behind the heads of the Mafia, the leaders of culture, there are always very strong women. European culture is a matriarchy, especially in the south. The women have a lot of power.
Stefano Gabbana
#17. My mother and I used to watch 'Maude,' and I think she loved 'Maude' because my mother wanted to see strong women out there with a voice.
Andie MacDowell
#18. Women are not tools, strong women move mountain. Treat them with respect the way you would treat your president, father, daughter, son, sister or mom. Because without them humanity perish.
Henry Johnson Jr
#19. Strong women wear their pain like stilettos. No matter how much it hurts, all you see is the beauty of it.
Harriet Morgan
#20. People will say to me, 'You've played so many strong women' and I'll say, 'Have you ever said to a man, 'You've played so many strong men?' No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can't we have that expectation about women?
Meryl Streep
#21. Aye, I ken fine how strong women are," he said quietly. "And you're strong enough for what must be done, m' annsachd - believe me.
Diana Gabaldon
#22. Happy international woman's day to all of the beautifully strong women across the world
Bethany Mota
#23. Not your girlfriend?" Grandmother guessed. "Well, she should be, you dolt! Don't let her get away. You need strong women in your life, if you haven't noticed. Now, to business.
Rick Riordan
#24. I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.
Ruth Benedict
#25. There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.
Gloria Allred
#26. A common misconception about strong women is that we don't need the hand-holding, the flowers, and the nice gestures, and what I've found to be true is that it's the strong women who want it the most.
Nicole Curtis
#27. I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
Yancy Butler
#28. You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.
Ginger Rogers
#29. I noticed in the past, a lot of guys who like strong women, they really freak out if you're not strong 24/7. Or they complain about you being strong, then the moment you're not strong, they're like, 'Oh, no, no, no.'
Salma Hayek
#30. In community work, you reach some people, but in writing, I can reach many more people, not only in exploring issues of domestic violence, but also by showing the importance of strong women in communities.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#31. I was never a glamour puss whose career was really based on a look or an attitude. I've been basically playing the same parts I am at 55 that I was at 35. I get cast as strong women, and that can be a mother or a judge or anything.
Jane Kaczmarek
#32. I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.
Afia Nathaniel
#33. My gender has never been an issue or a limitation. I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by strong women growing up, and with them as my role models, I was never limited by the traditional roles women find themselves in.
Brenda Brathwaite
#34. Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.
Simone Schwarz-Bart
#35. There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.
Imelda May
#36. I just try not to label myself in any way. I just have an allergy to labels in general. I can tell you that I am surrounded by very strong women and that I really appreciate that, but I'd rather not label myself.
Penelope Cruz
#37. I like strong, strong women who don't go down without a fight. I like iconic roles. They don't come around very often, so I have to wait for them. Obviously I'm not the typical blonde who stands by the side, while the man has all the fun.
Rose McGowan
#38. I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
Erykah Badu
#39. Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us - don't take us for granted!
Natalie Martinez
#40. I like strong women - not necessarily a masculine woman - but I like strong women ... say a woman who runs a C.E.O. corporation. I like a strong woman with confidence - massive confidence - and then I want to dominate her sexually.
Mike Tyson
#41. There is no end to the cruelty of men threatened by strong women." - Mr. Nancy
Neil Gaiman
#42. I am struck by how many leading women ... today started as Girl Scouts. It is an organization that obviously develops strong women leaders.
Christine Todd Whitman
#43. The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be.
Rachel Kushner
#44. I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
Vanessa Hudgens
#45. Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#46. I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.
Darren Aronofsky
#47. I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen.
Allison Scagliotti
#48. You cannot stop what the public want. The public want two strong women in the final round and then a woman prime minister and I'm absolutely with that.
Iain Duncan Smith
#49. I was always this guy who appreciated and loved women and supported them and all those little things that were female-skewed, strong women parts.
Barry Bostwick
#50. I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
Carla Gugino
#51. [A]s often happens to assertive women, the men in the federation considered her abrasive, overbearing. They whispered privately that she was 'emotionally volatile' and did not have a 'second gear' in her public manner. Strong men are considered fiery, strong women are volatile.
Jere Longman
#52. I was amazed at how strong women were when they were angry.
Robin Hobb
#53. A strong women is someone who is able to smile this morning like she wasn't crying last night.
Harriet Morgan
#54. I love collaborating with strong women.
Mika.
#55. I hope the strong women out there aren't quiet and they don't go away, because when people attack you for speaking, the best way to drive them nuts is to smile and carry on speaking, louder, more wisely, more intensely, more articulately than ever.
Neil Gaiman
#56. Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#57. In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.
Adrienne Barbeau
#59. For me, the triad of 'Harry Potter,' the 'Hunger Games' and 'Twilight' feature strong women, and as a declared feminist, it's a wonderful thing. These women have really opened up this particular world of storytelling, which I'm very grateful for.
Cassandra Clare
#60. I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.
Ryan Gosling
#61. I'm really inspired by playing strong women. Anything that I can be a part of like that, to be a role model for young women.
Missy Peregrym
#62. I've had a very supportive mother my entire life, so I've had strong women around me.
Nina Arianda
#63. Gay men are perfect men for girls who are tough. They're not threatened by strong women, and they're usually very in touch with their feelings and pay attention to details. I've always had an affinity with gay men.
Madonna Ciccone
#64. Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.
Maya Angelou
#65. Women are leaders everywhere you look - from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.
Nancy Pelosi
#67. Wine is strong, the king is strong, women are strong, but truth overcometh all things.
Robert Burton
#68. I like to think that I represent myself as a strong woman, so to work with other strong women I find very inspiring.
Annabelle Wallis
#69. But even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)
J.D. Robb
#70. I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.
Robert Rodriguez
#71. Or maybe when she realized that he was never going to come and rescue her, she did what all strong women do. She found a way to save herself.
Adriana Trigiani
#72. Strong women are absolutely unpredictable.
Anne Rice
#73. I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.
Brad Garrett
#74. My family has very strong women. My mother never laughed at my dream of Africa, even though everyone else did because we didn't have any money, because Africa was the 'dark continent', and because I was a girl.
Jane Goodall
#75. I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time. My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo.
Ridley Scott
#76. We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men ... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
Maya Angelou
#77. I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.
Jay Baruchel
#78. The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women ... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
Natalie Dormer
#79. I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother's side had been a matron on a hospital ship in World War II, and one on my father's side had served in the Women's Royal Naval Service.
Nick Earls
#80. Strong women don't play victim, don't make themselves look pitiful, & don't point fingers. They stand & they deal.
Mandy Hale
#81. I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.
Joan Allen
#83. I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
Natalie Imbruglia
#84. My late mother was very clear to my sister and I that we were to be strong women; that we were to be effective; that we were to be heard.
Christine Quinn
#85. There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category.
Julian Fellowes
#86. If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell.
Paget Brewster
#87. I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I'd like to play strong women who are also very feminine.
Angelina Jolie
#89. I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women who would argue over what kind of pants you were wearing or the color of your nail polish.
Michael Kors
#90. I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters, and a cop is still a strong character.
Ally Walker
#91. I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.
Kelly Reilly
#92. I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine there's just a lot of opportunity for women to have powerful roles. Or it's just that there's more women writing TV. Women tend to maybe write strong women.
Whitney Cummings
#93. I think the reason why strong women have such a powerful impact is that you've got the strength of a man with the heart and sensitivity of a woman.
Emilia Clarke
#94. People ask why do I write strong women characters, and basically, all the girls I know are strong; the girls I've had are strong. The women in my life are strong.
Margaret Stohl
#95. I've always been pretty confident. I grew up in a family of strong women, so I was always taught to be proud of who I am, the way I am.
Sofia Vergara
#96. It will all work out, Inas. You come from a long line of survivors and strong women. So everything will be fine in the end. And we are always with you in spirit, to guide you and love you.
Zack Love
#97. There is a breed of men out there, you know, who are attracted to strong women. They just don't know what to do once they win us over.
Lisa Gardner
#98. BEASTON: Strong women don't do well in cages.
T.S. Joyce
#99. I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.
Chris O'Dowd
