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Quotes About Determination

Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.
~ Sheryl Swoopes
I'm not messing around with nobody's woman. If I want a woman I go get her - you know what I mean?
~ Miles Davis
It is the worst thing you can do, women, is whine, .. I mean the worst. Don't complain, protest.
~ Maya Angelou
Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.
~ Faye Wattleton
You just have to be strong if you're a black woman.
~ Melissa Harris-Perry
Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!
~ Molly Ivins
A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion
~ Oprah Winfrey
My parents always knew I was hopeless at everything else, I was fortunate in that I was backed all the way. I came to it late and only because I thought there'd be loads of women and drinking!
~ Christopher Eccleston
Defeat in itself was part and parcel of the great gambling game of politics. A man who could not accept it and try again was not of the stuff of which leaders are made.
~ Agnes Sligh Turnbull
Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.
~ Sheryl Sandberg
Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.
~ Will Rogers
I've always been a woman of faith.
~ Lauren London
Women's weapon, water-drops.
~ O. Henry
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
~ Sandra Day O'Connor
How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.
~ Anna Held
If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
~ Naomi Watts
It is a woman's reason to say I will do such a thing because I will.
~ Jeremiah Burroughs
A child who thinks he can't do anything on his own eventually can't.
~ Lenore Skenazy
You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.
~ Joan Didion
'Acting as if...' I decided, ridiculously in retrospect, that my experience covering women's volleyball for my college newspaper was sufficient for me to at least try to become a war correspondent.
~ Samantha Power
We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, women have joined me in this effort, and so it's not about appearances. It's about effectiveness.
~ Katherine Harris
Especially in this industry, women challenge men much more now because we're saying, 'We can do it, too.'
~ Regina King
a women is like a tea bag.it's only when she is in hot water that you realize how strong she is.
~ Carl Sandburg