Strong Women Quotes - Page 5

• The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias

  Success, Sports, Baseball

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• I have found that women are not only just as much interested as men are in flying, but apparently have less fear than the men have. At least, more women than men asked to go up with me. And when I took them up, they seemed to enjoy it.

  Katherine Stinson

  Fear, Flying, Aviation

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• When you speak up about any sense of unfairness or injustice, you're told that you're overreacting, you're too angry, too silly-shut up already. It takes a tremendous amount of fortitude to be able to live in this world as a woman, let alone a woman who wants things to change.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Change, Silly, Feminist

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• Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Strength, Being Strong, Defeat

  Alexandre Dumas (1912*). “Marguerite de Valois”

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• I believe that history is not made by cynics. It is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.

  Tzipi Livni

  Dream, Believe, People

  "Kerry Hopes To Defy Skeptics Of Mideast Peace Talks". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. July 31, 2013.

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• Define success on your own terms, achieve it by your own rules, and build a life you're proud to live.

  Anne Sweeney

  Positive, Inspiring, Success

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• Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

  Anne Frank

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.

  Brigham Young

  Family, Education, School

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• Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

  Janis Joplin

  Inspirational, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin

  Janis Joplin

  Lonely, Home, Ideas

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• If you have something about yourself that's different, you're lucky. It's not a curse.

  Taylor Swift

  Strong Girl, Different, Lucky

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• When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

  Steffi Graf

  Funny, Sports, Volleyball

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• The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

  Coco Chanel

  Strength, Inspiring, Courage

  "Believing in Ourselves" by Armand Eisen, (p. 39), 1992.

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• I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 04, 2013

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• I learned to always take on things I'd never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.

  Ginni Rometty

  Positive, Inspiring, Inspiration

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• 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

  Running, Country, Children

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• I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.

  Brad Garrett

  Strong, Strong Love, Crafts

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• We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Powerful, Empowering, Feminist

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

  Natalie Martinez

  Strong, Being A Strong Woman, Latina

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• When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me

  Ang Lee

  Strong, Character, Stories

  "Ang Lee and James Schamus". Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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• I represent more the healthy, happy, curvy, strong woman. And that sounds much healthier to me than being 80 pounds and skinny as a bean.

  Heidi Klum

  Healthy, Pounds, Skinny

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• Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself

  Alice Walker

  Way, Fine, Ecstasy

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.318, The New Press

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• Beautiful princesses and beautiful, strong queens are brainwashed into thinking ho’s and B****’s are virtuous titles.

  Delano Johnson

  Beautiful, Queens, Princess

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• Get over the feeling that the two words don’t go together - women and power. The fact is, if we don’t put the two together, and don’t understand how power changes complexion in the hands of women, then we’re not going to make it.

  Jane Fonda

  Hands, Two, Feelings

  "Hillary, Condi, Aung Sun Suu Kyi and You" by Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 2, 2007.

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• I get very frustrated when I hear women saying, "Oh, feminism is passé," because I think feminism means empowerment. Men can be feminists, too! Many men are feminists. We need feminism. It's not against men; it's about the empowerment of women. It's the respect of women - giving women equal rights, the same opportunities.

  Annie Lennox

  Mean, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Annie Lennox Raises Her Voice". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2008.

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