Brave Women Quotes:

I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.190, Open Road Media

topic: Courage, Moving, Brave, Moving Beyond, Brave Women

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Inspiring, Empowering Women, Inspirational Strong Women

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

- Ayn Rand

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Empowering Women, Try Again

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Attributed

topic: Hilarious, Heartbreak, Funny Love, Inspirational Feminist, Men Women

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Girl, Teenage, World, Female Empowerment, That Girl

In life, if you don't risk anything, you risk everything.

- John Spence

topic: Thinking, Risk, Things Change, You Don't Love Me, Bridal Shower

Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

- Erica Jong

source: Erica Jong (2007). “Inventing Memory: A Novel of Mothers and Daughters”, p.90, Penguin

topic: Love, Life, Inspiring, You Don't Love Me, Long Relationship

If you don't risk anything you risk everything

- Mark Zuckerberg

topic: Motivational, Strong Women, Hippie, You Don't Love Me, Bridal Shower

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Passion, Want, Kickass Women, Women Strength

The deepest work is usually the darkest. A brave woman, a wisening woman, will developing the poorest psychic land, for if she builds only on the best land of her psyche, she will have for a view the least of what she is. So do not be afraid of the worst. It only guarantees increase of soul power through fresh insights and opportunities for re-visioning one's life and self anew.

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes

topic: Opportunity, Self, Views, Soul Power, Brave Women

Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died trying to visit it.

- Dave Barry

topic: Fun, Moving, Men, Brave Women

I believe that women are many different types of people. There are brave women, there are cowardly women, there are altruistic women, there are selfish women. Most people are a combination of the same.

- George R. R. Martin

source: Source: thesource.com

topic: Selfish, Believe, People, Brave Women

I am joining the more than 200,000 women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. We are a testament to the importance of early detection and new treatments ... I am inspired by the brave women who have faced this battle before me and grateful for the support of family and friends.

- Sheryl Crow

topic: Cancer, Grateful, Years, Breast Cancer, Detection

I think it's so wrong to play the victim. There's too many brave women out there that just won't even tolerate it, you know?

- Elisha Cuthbert

topic: Thinking, Play, Bravery, Brave Women

My mother, brave woman, lost her whole family when she decided to marry a black man in the 60s. When the marriage fell apart, she had to come back to her family.

- Lisa Bonet

topic: Mother, Men, Brave, Brave Women

Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of relationships, the one between a woman and a man. They are legends told to women by other women, and they are as powerful and as endlessly fascinating to women as the legends that lie at the heart of all the other genres.

- Jayne Ann Krentz

source: Jayne Ann Krentz (1992). “Dangerous Men and Adventurous Women: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance”, p.113, University of Pennsylvania Press

topic: Powerful, Lying, Heart, Dangerous Man, Romance Novel

In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial killer's crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood, but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity.

- Stephen King

topic: Strong, Dark, Light, Fact And Fiction, Dell