Strong Female Quotes:

There's a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that.

- Jennifer Love Hewitt

source: "How A Prominent Boehner Critic Sees Congress' Future Without Him". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, www.npr.org. September 25, 2015.

topic: Strong, Flower, Doors, Strong Female

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

- Barbara De Angelis

source: Barbara De Angelis (1995). “Real Moments”, Dell

topic: Real, Being Alone, Reflection, Inspire Women, Business Woman

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

- Melissa Etheridge

topic: Inspirational, Beautiful, Powerful, Inspirational Strong Women, Inspire Women

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

topic: Running, Country, Strong Women, Inspirational Feminist, Career Women

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

- Melinda Gates

topic: Strong Women, Voice, Definitions, Female Empowerment, Women Equality

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

- Ella Fitzgerald

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, Empowering Women, Powerful Women

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

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

topic: Love, Inspirational, Motivational, Untapped Potential, Good News

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

- Roseanne Barr

source: "Heard the one about ..." by Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2006.

topic: Inspirational, Being Strong, Strong Women, Powerful Women, Women Equality

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Empowering Women, International Business

It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.

- Madeleine Albright

source: "Madeleine Albright: An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Empowering Women, Women Equality

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

- Caterina Fake

topic: Business, Important, Entrepreneurship, Inspired To Work, Business Woman

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

- Madonna Ciccone

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

topic: Strong Women, Memorable, Feminist Art, Powerful Women, Women Equality

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

- Madonna Ciccone

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

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

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

- Audre Lorde

source: "The Cancer Journals". Book by Audre Lorde, 1980.

topic: Inspirational, Encouragement, Powerful, Powerful Women, Power And Control

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Inspirational, Success, Spiritual, Empowering Women, Strong Female

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

source: Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Leadership, Empowering Women, Improve Self Esteem

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

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.

- Marissa Mayer

source: "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, edition.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Women Leadership, Business Woman

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

Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

- Anita Roddick

topic: Mother, Strong Women, Thinking, Young Entrepreneurs, Female Empowerment

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

- Barbara Corcoran

source: Twitter post from Apr 14, 2017

topic: Best Success, Heels, Inspirational Strong Women, Business Woman, Strong Female

Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.

- Anita Roddick

topic: Entrepreneur, Different, Standing Out, Young Entrepreneurs, Female Empowerment

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Looks, Able, Next, Empowering Women, Inspirational Adversity

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

- Coco Chanel

topic: Strength, Inspiring, Fashion, Self Determination, Empowering Women

Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.

- Audre Lorde

topic: Littles, Next, Push Yourself, Strong Female, Great Women

Women have to harness their power - it's absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

- Cher

source: FLATT Interview, flattmag.com.

topic: Positive, Firsts, Harness, Strong Female, Around The Corner

You are more powerful than you think.

- Tim Cook

topic: Powerful, Thinking, Powerful Women, Strong Female, Strong Heart

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

- Gloria Steinem

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Inspirational Feminist, Strong Female

Many of my movies have strong female leads - brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe in with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

- Hayao Miyazaki

topic: Girl, Strong, Believe, Strong Female, Being A Hero

I want to try different genres. I think I'll still be looking at a strong female character in the center, and identity struggle and transformation.

- Celine Sciamma

topic: Strong, Struggle, Character, Strong Female

People ask me: "Do I consider myself to be a Latino writer?" "What does it mean to be Latino?" Those are very strange questions to answer , but feminism is easier because it's just an ideology, a way I live my life. And absolutely in the most political sense I try to sit down and write very strong female roles.

- Quiara Alegria Hudes

topic: Strong, Writing, Mean, Strong Female, I Live My Life

The song "This Is Not Surreal," was inspired by a painter I love, Frida Kahlo. She really did suffer for her art. She speaks to me. She was brutally honest in her work. At that time in fine art, you really didn't see many female artists expressing that. She was such a strong female presence, and I really look up to her. She had a lot of physical pain.

- Lindi Ortega

topic: Song, Art, Strong, Strong Female, Frida

When I'm looking for a strong female character, or a strong character at all, I'm looking for a character that has a purpose in that story, that has an interior life of some sort. They don't have to be physically strong; they don't have to be morally strong or ethically strong, because men and women come in a huge variety of all of those things. Emotionally, ethically - I'm less concerned with that. I just don't want them to be props. That's the only thing that offends me.

- Kelly Sue DeConnick

topic: Strong, Character, Men, Strong Female, Strong Female Characters

I want to set the example my mother set for me: a strong female role model who faces challenges takes risks and conquers fears. I want my children to know that as women they can do whatever they dream as long as they believe in themselves. More than anything it is my responsibility to instill in my daughters the knowledge that they can have a family and everything else too.

- Mireya Mayor

source: Mireya Mayor (2011). “Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey From NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer”, p.299, National Geographic Books

topic: Daughter, Mother, Dream, Strong Female, Female Role Models

I love country, folk, and strong female voices, like Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, PJ Harvey, and Kate Bush.

- Alex Winston

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Country, Strong, Female, Strong Female

I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.

- Jessica Brown Findlay

topic: Strong, Female, Roles, Strong Female, Female Roles

I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.

- Shannon Elizabeth

topic: Strong, Character, Play, Strong Female, Strong Female Characters

Strong female leads are important.

- Chris Hemsworth

topic: Strong, Important, Female, Strong Female

When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.

- Sarah Michelle Gellar

topic: Strong, Character, Role Models, Strong Female, Female Role Models

I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television. Especially as a black woman, I think it's important.

- Megalyn Echikunwoke

source: Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

topic: Strong, Smart, Successful, Strong Female, Smart Women

What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.

- Tavi Gevinson

source: "A teen just trying to figure it out". TEDxTeen Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

topic: Strong, Character, Female, Strong Female, Strong Female Characters

We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now...when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing.

- Storm Saulter

topic: Strong, Perspective, Female, Strong Female

I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.

- Carrie Underwood

source: "A Venn Diagram of Hollywood's Confused Feminists" by Sally Holmes, www.elle.com. October 12, 2015.

topic: Strong, Feminist, Negative, Connotation, Strong Female

I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.

- Ryan Gosling

topic: Strong, Character, Profound, Strong Female, Strong Female Characters

For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.

- Marisa Miller

topic: Strong, Acting, Roles, Strong Female, Female Roles