Tenacious Women Quotes

#1. They're very tenacious. They're dedicated. Once a woman decides she's going to do something, she'll probably stick to it. The only problem with women is if there's anything wrong with them, they won't tell you. They'll get out there and run on one leg. They don't moan and groan like a lot of men do.

Arthur Lydiard

#2. I think women directors have to be really tenacious.

Jamie Babbit

#3. Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.

Samuel Johnson

#4. Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant, when we knew not what ailed us, to recognize any generosity in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy.

Henry David Thoreau

#5. He was so delighted when I bested him that he slapped me on the back and sent me flying into a tree, which I knocked down. It was a hundred year old oak.

Robyn Peterman

#6. I've just written a very gritty, non-magical take on the King Arthur legend, 'Here Lies Arthur,' and I'm currently toying with some other historical ideas, as well as working with the illustrator David Wyatt on some sequels to my Victorian space opera 'Larklight.'

Philip Reeve

#7. Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

Honore De Balzac

#8. Sir, perhaps her name is no coincidence. I believe it's Ginger. She's a bit like that damned hurricane. Small, tenacious, and a shit load of a problem.

Bud Rudesill

#9. Good but rarely came from good advice.

Lord Byron

#10. I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

Anthony Daniels

#11. Just roll me in fairy dust and call me a unicorn.

Lita Burke

#12. When you're a kid and you're a superhero lover, the holy trinity is Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, so to be able to take any of those and play with it is a huge joy.

Alex Kurtzman

#13. And trans women and femmes share another important attribute: We are survivors. The rest of the world may assume we are weak and fragile because of our feminine inclinations, but in reality, living with other people's relentless misogynistic bullshit has made us tenacious bad-asses.

Julia Serano

#14. It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances.

George H. W. Bush

#15. No machine can wind a better sounding or tighter wind than a well trained person,

Leo Fender

#16. He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

Kit Williams

#17. The twenty-first-century successful black woman is brilliant and tenacious and not afraid to flex her intellectual, spiritual, or financial muscles. She has accomplished, earned, and owned more than black women of any other generation in American history.

Sophia Nelson

#18. If you don't doubt it, be 'bout it. Intuition is soul's watchman.

T.F. Hodge