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Quotes About Strength

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.
~ Honore de Balzac
But I think Hillary Clinton is one of the most amazing women of this time.
~ Hope Davis
There is a great need to rally the women of the Church to stand with and for the Brethren in stemming the tide of evil that surrounds us.
~ Howard W. Hunter
Women should not have to adopt masculine traits in order to succeed. You should be able to stay as a woman, and in tune with your femininity, and still be equal.
~ Isla Fisher
I think women directors have to be really tenacious.
~ Jamie Babbit
So much is made of good, strong roles for women. Actually, it's really interesting playing vul­nerable people as well.
~ Jane Fonda
"Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.
~ Jane Fonda
So, instead of spending my strength quarreling with the hand, I would strike for the heart of that great tyranny.
~ Jane Swisshelm
You're not too fat. You're not too loud. You're not too smart. You're not unladylike. There is nothing wrong with you.
~ Jessica Valenti
I think a lot of women are incredibly tough and they're just really admirable. Especially the way that, given what they've got, they just manage to carry on.
~ Jo Brand
I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.
~ Joan Allen
You can't go through life without your heart being bruised or broken. Otherwise, you're not truly, fully, a person.
~ JoBeth Williams
I guess I've played a lot of victims, but that's what a lot of the history of women is about.
~ Jodie Foster
Mary had Joseph. Esther had Mordecai. Ruth had Boaz. We will not become the women God intends us to be without the guidance, counsel, wisdom, strength, and love of good men in our lives.
~ John Eldredge
Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
~ John Lyly
It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you?
~ Joss Whedon
Women are constantly underestimated in our power, our reach, our collective pull.
~ Julianna Baggott
I consider myself to be a very strong, independent woman.
~ Julie Gonzalo
Beautiful women rarely possess sufficient depth of character to survive without their pretty feathers.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Having the opportunity to play a strong woman is a good one.
~ Kari Matchett
Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.
~ Kate Braverman
Here I stand, hobbled in a sack of doom, determined to tear out of it, knowing that I will.
~ Kate Simon
I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.
~ Katherine Heigl
The roles that I am attracted to are women who try to do something about their lives, and not a woman who waits for some circumstance or man to come rescue her. I have no interest in that.
~ Kathleen Turner