Strong Independent Women Quotes:

I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.

- Dido Armstrong

topic: Strong, Independent, Honest, Strong Independent, Strong Independent Women

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

- Clare Boothe Luce

topic: Inspirational, Women, Bad Ass, Female Empowerment, Strong Independent

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Positive, Happiness, Success, Empowering Women, Inspirational Feminist

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

- Shirley Bassey

topic: Strong, Independent, Successful, Successful Women, Strong Independent

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

- Anais Nin

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Time To Move On, Inspirational Adventure Time

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

- Alice Walker

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Maintaining Peace, Personal Power

I have a lot of sides to my personality and what you see on 'The Hills' is a strong, independent woman, which I am. But I also have a sensitive side that I don't show too much.

- Kristin Cavallari

topic: Strong, Independent, Personality, Strong Independent, Strong Independent Women

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

- Margaret Sanger

source: Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.99, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Strong Women, Courage, Struggle, Female Empowerment, Powerful Women

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Strong Women, Equality, White, Women Equality, Strong Independent Women

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

- Coco Chanel

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

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Country, Running, Strong Women, Female Empowerment, Powerful Women

With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude and inner fulfillment.

- Betsy Prioleau

topic: Independent, Conformity, Driven, Strong Independent Women, Superficiality

Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

- Charlotte Whitton

source: Canada Month, June 1963. A later satirical version of this saying added to the end "Luckily, this is not difficult" (Paul Dickson, The Official Rules [1978]). See Eleanor Roosevelt 2

topic: Funny, Hilarious, Strong Women, Female Empowerment, Successful Women

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Motivational, Inspiring, Sad, Female Empowerment, 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

Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation." "I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.

- Charlotte Bronte

source: Charlotte Bronte (2004). “Jane Eyre”, p.130, Variocity

topic: Struggle, Independent, Bird, Self Determination, Strong Independent Women

A Bond girl must be a strong and independent woman, but at the same time charming and sensual. Those opposite qualities combined together make her interesting. She must be strong but at the same time feminine.

- Olga Kurylenko

source: Interview with Chris Tilly, www.ign.com. January 31, 2008.

topic: Girl, Strong, Independent, Strong Independent Women, Bond 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

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

- Emily Dickinson

topic: Love, Life, Women, Love Poems, Strong Independent Women

A man's got to do what a man's got to do.

- John Wayne

topic: Strong Women, Empowering, Empowerment, Female Empowerment, Strong Independent Women

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

- Katharine Hepburn

topic: Independent, Men, Support, International Women's Day, Strong Independent Women

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

- Simone de Beauvoir

source: Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

topic: Age, Born, Male Privilege, Female Empowerment, Inspirational Strong Women

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

We still live in a world in which a significant fraction of people, including women, believe that a woman belongs and wants to belong exclusively in the home.

- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

source: "A Mme. Curie From The Bronx" by Elizabeth Stone, www.nytimes.com. 1978.

topic: Strong Women, Believe, Home, Female Empowerment, Strong Independent Women

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.

- Susan B. Anthony

topic: Inspiring, Strong Women, Sex, Female Empowerment, Women Equality

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

- Steffi Graf

topic: Sports, Couple, Winning, Strong Independent Women, Winning Sports

You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.

- Marsha Johnson Evans

topic: Strong Women, Fall, Hard Work, Career Women, Inspirational Strong Women

My mustrious lordship, i'll show you what a woman can do

- Artemisia Gentileschi

topic: Art, Lordship, Shows, Female Empowerment, Strong Independent Women

If you want something done, ask a busy person.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: People, Done, Want, Independent Person, Powerful Women

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life." Another "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: Strong Women, Empowering, Curiosity, Strong Independent Women, Kept Woman

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

- Anita Roddick

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

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

- Michael Cadnum

source: Michael Cadnum (2015). “Starfall: Phaeton and the Chariot of the Sun”, p.13, Open Road Media

topic: Intimate, Disturbed, Strong Independent Women, Funny Strong Women

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

- Byron Katie

topic: Strength, Being Strong, Spiritual, Katie, Strong Independent

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

- Little Richard

topic: Being Strong, Mother, Strong Women, Strong Independent Women, Images Of Strong Women

Be sure of yourself, don't let anyone bully you, be a strong and independent woman or boy.

- Nicole Polizzi

source: "Snooki: The Jersey Shore Is Better Than Italy". Interview with Naughty But Nice Rob, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2011.

topic: Bullying, Strong, Independent, Strong Independent Women

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

- Helen Keller

source: Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

topic: Inspirational, Life, Perseverance, Empowering Women, Miracle Of Life

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

- Nancy Astor

topic: Half, Too Much, Strong Independent Women, Funny Strong Women

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

- Mae West

topic: Funny, Men, Two, Strong Independent Women, Funny Strong Women

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

- Virginia Woolf

source: Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Strong Women, Adversity, People, Strong Independent Women, Prodigious

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

source: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2011). “The Yearling”, p.176, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love, Funny, Life, Humorous Love, Strong Independent

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

- J. K. Rowling

topic: Strong Women, Destiny, Names, Strong Independent, Strong Independent Women

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

topic: Life, Motivational, Strength, Just Living Life, Inspirational History

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

- Erica Jong

source: FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Being Strong, Powerful Women, Just Being You

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

- Helen Keller

topic: Achievement, Miracle, Kickass Women, Inspire Women, Miracle Of Life

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

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Wishbones, Kickass Women

I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Eye, Independent Women, Self, Strong Independent Women, Adventuring

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin

- Janis Joplin

topic: Lonely, Women, Home, Strong Independent Women, Lonely Women