Famous Quotes & Sayings

Whitney Cummings

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.

Reba McEntire

Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

Roger Ebert

It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak one who goes along. Strength demands intelligence, intelligence demands stimulation, and weakness is boring. It is better to find a partner you can contend with for a lifetime than one who accommodates you because he doesn't really care.

Yancy Butler

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

Yancy Butler

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

Kelis

Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.

Mika

I love collaborating with strong women.

Priyanka Chopra

I seek out parts which are strong women. It's not the quantity of a role; it's the quality of a role.

Portia de Rossi

I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters.

Paget Brewster

If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell.

Ken Follett

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.

Kaya Scodelario

I’m a bit of a feminist and I carry a machete! (Laughs) I try to be a strong female. I think it’s important. My mum is my idol in life. She’s a very strong woman. I think it’s important for women to be strong and intelligent and hold their own.

Oprah Winfrey

The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.

Barbara de Angelis

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Paul Tsongas

From a viable economy to the full funding of Headstart, from a clean environment to true equality for women, from a strong military to a commitment to racial brotherhood, from schools that are honored to streets free of excessive violence.

Natalie Martinez

I have to represent. I feel proud to have a culture that's different and proud to be a Latina. We're not all categorized as one type of person there's people from everywhere doing different things who have different types of cultures. Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

Natalie Martinez

Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

Natalie Martinez

Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us, don't take us for granted!

Natalie Imbruglia

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

Taylor Swift

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

Penelope Cruz

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.

Queen Latifah

I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants.

Kelly Reilly

I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.

Katy Perry

I like to go out there looking like a strong woman, because I am strong. But I am also a woman who goes through all kinds of problems and highs and lows.

Karen Black

I love playing strong women, even if theyre nuts.

Basically, women have to prove they are strong at all times. And then when they go on the attack, they have to not appear mean because those women often get the label of being catty.

Patrick Dempsey

I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.

Judy Chicago

Remember our heritage is our power; we can know ourselves and our capacities by seeing that other women have been strong.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Being a woman did not look enviable to me, even when it looked admirable. It looked like nonstop sacrifice and service. Because it was. Being a woman seemed vulnerable and sad. Even the strong women I knew - and they were all strong - had earned their strength through enduring huge disappointments and tremendous struggles.

Louisa May Alcott

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.

Emma Watson

There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith.

Heidi Klum

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.

Garry Marshall

I grew up with two sisters, no brothers. There was Ronny who produced "Happy Days" for me and my sister Penny who acts, directs - she does everything. So they were very strong women in my life.