Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Shimkus

I am proud that the Republican Party stands for strong support for the military, and I am sure we will consistently support our men and women serving in dangerous places around the world and their families.

Nancy Astor

We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know

Nancy Astor

Women have got to make the world safe for men, since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Nora Roberts

...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)

Nora Roberts

I’m not going anywhere.” Gently, he stroked her back, cradled her head. Was there anything more astounding or more frightening to a man, he wondered, than a strong woman in tears? “I’ve been right here all along. I love you, Eve, almost more than I can stand.” “I need you. I can’t help it. I don’t want to.” “I know.” He eased back, tucking a hand under her chin to lift her face to his. “We’re going to have to deal with it.” He kissed one wet cheek, then the other. “I really can’t do without you.

Mae Jemison

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

Michael Cadnum

No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.

Martha Plimpton

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun, a serial killer, a housewife, as long as there's some depth there.

Madonna Ciccone

Strong women leave big hickies

Madonna Ciccone

I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

Madonna Ciccone

If you're not comfortable with a strong woman you're not comfortable with your own feminine instincts. You're not comfortable, period. You're going to be threatened by everything that's not exactly like you are ... and that is the measure any man.

Lykke Li

I feel it's so important to have strong women around you.

Louis Farrakhan

Hillary, you're a strong woman, you're an intelligent woman - you're not a good woman. But if you want to do good, let the Black man go, and stop deceiving them, that you are really their "friend." If you were their friend, why did you kill Muammar Gadhafi?

Chris O'Dowd

I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.

Frank Sinatra

I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.

Helen Keller

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.

Helen Keller

The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Isabel Allende

It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like you and me humiliated. They cannot forgive us that we triumphed where so many others fail...Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat and destroy us.

George Weinberg

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

Elsa Schiaparelli

Many men admire strong women but they don't love them. Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.

Ginni Rometty

Growth and comfort do not coexist.

Ginger Rogers

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.

Bethany Mota

Happy international woman's day to all of the beautifully strong women across the world

Bethenny Frankel

Let's be clear, I'm a strong woman.

Christina Aguilera

Call me a slag. If it means being a strong woman, I'll gladly be that.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.

Iain Duncan Smith

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.

Gloria Allred

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

J. K. Rowling

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Adrienne Barbeau

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.

Darius Rucker

I'm lucky my wife is a strong woman. She's one of the stronger people I've ever met. It's hard for me to be away, but I know my home life is fine because my wife is there.

Cokie Roberts

Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman.

Meryl Streep

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?