Strong Women Quotes - Page 9

• There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us.

  Kristen Bell

  People, Lots Of Friends, Roles

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• We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

  Marie Curie

  Strength, Confidence, Perseverance

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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• The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Inspiring, Sorry, Successful

  Twitter post from Mar 25, 2017

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• You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Inspiring, Drawing, Live Your Life

  "Grey's Anatomy". www.imdb.com. 2005-.

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• I think probably like seeing women fight because we're generally not thought to be strong, especially in the case of this movie.

  Chiaki Kuriyama

  Fighting, Thinking, Cases

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• If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.

  Barack Obama

  Strong Man, Should, Feels

  Barack Obama's Remarks in Town Hall with the Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. July 28, 2014.

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• Every time a cool rock chick or actress seems to respect themselves as a strong woman, I'm like, 'Yeah!' And I love them, and they're my girls. And then they start to go downhill and people aren't paying attention anymore. So they start stripping their clothes off, because that's all they have left. I swear to everything I've ever known, I will never do that

  Amy Lee

  Girl, Rocks, Clothes

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• You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

  Chris Evert

  Inspiring, Giving Up, Ifs

  "Tennis great Chris Evert finds new life on the court" by Liz Clarke, www.washingtonpost.com. January 18, 2012.

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• When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Inspiring, Dog, Believe

  "Career Watch: Superhot Melissa McCarthy Needs to Improve on ‘Tammy’" by Susan Wloszczyna, www.indiewire.com. July 7, 2014.

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• Women asking for raises should not only know their value, but they should ask with the confidence that they're helping the company to be successful.

  Kirsten Gillibrand

  Inspiring, Successful, Asking

  "Meet Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (and Take Her Work Advice)". Interview with Cindi Leive, www.glamour.com. March 11, 2014.

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• 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

  Conscious, Be Good, Complexes

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• I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

  Yancy Butler

  Mean, Thinking, Sometimes

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• I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

  Yancy Butler

  Strong

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• We need to ensure our men and women in uniform are equipped with the very best money can buy. We also have to make sure critical military technologies are developed in America and that the U.S. defense manufacturing base remains healthy and strong.

  Joe Lieberman

  Military, Technology, America

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• In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

  Ken Follett

  Book, Hero, Character

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• I don't really stay away from politics but the bullshit just gets to be too much. Any political tweets I take down after an hour or so. They are met with such a wall of stupidity and anger, it is hardly worth it to leave it up. Particularly, if you say anything about Hillary Clinton, the responses are just nuts - "YOU JUST FEAR SMART, STRONG WOMEN, MR. MAN".

  John Lurie

  Wall, Smart, Bullshit

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When you're through changing you're through.

  Bruce Barton

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "On the Story" with Mary Snow, edition.cnn.com. August 27, 2005.

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• We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Sad

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• My mother is such an incredibly strong woman. She raised a family of five boys extremely well. She made us all strong, loving, caring people. We all support each other. I'm really thankful to her.

  Henry Cavill

  Mother, Caring, Boys

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• Happy girls are the prettiest girls.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Happiness, Beauty, Being Strong

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• How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

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  If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

  RuPaul

  Beauty, Being Yourself, Love You

  Song: Can I Get an Amen, Album: Born Naked

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• If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts.

  Sharon Needles

  Ghost, Applause, Stage

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• Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

  Bella Abzug

  Equality, Heartless, Being A Strong Woman

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• Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Graduation, Giving Up

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