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Quotes About Strength

If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
~ Barack Obama
I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.
~ Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Men fight wars. Women win them.
~ Elizabeth I
All women are goddesses, and it's just a matter of letting that goddess-power shine - and if you don't try to be the biggest and baddest damn goddess you can be, you are selling yourself short.
~ Kimora Lee Simmons
I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!
~ Angela Merkel
To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice
~ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Black women are going to have to take more leadership. I think we are prepared because we bring a tenaciousness with us. We do not fear losing friends, allies, or jobs.
~ Maxine Waters
I think women are very powerful and I think we're more powerful together than separated.
~ Zendaya
I believe that never was a country better adapted to produce a great race of women than this Canada of ours, nor a race of women better adapted to make a great country.
~ Emily Murphy
African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
~ Wangari Maathai
I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
~ Susan B. Anthony
The empowerment of black women constitutes the empowerment of our entire community.
~ Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.
~ John Steinbeck
Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.
~ Dr. Dre
If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman, don't worry, there is still time
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
A strong man can handle a strong woman. A weak man will say she has an attitude problem
~ Boonaa Mohammed
The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
~ Democritus
The higher the better. It's more about an attitude. High heels empower women in a way.
~ Christian Louboutin
The stiletto is a feminine weapon that men just don't have.
~ Christian Louboutin
Women have got to stop being polite. If I ever had children, which I don't, the first thing I'd teach a girl of mine is the words 'f - off.'
~ Helen Mirren
We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.
~ Jackson Katz
Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Women speaking up for themselves and for those around them is the strongest force we have to change the world.
~ Melinda Gates