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Quotes About Strength

It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves
~ Anna Garlin Spencer
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
~ Chanakya
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
~ Socrates
Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.
~ Maria Callas
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Women are strongest: but above all things Truth beareth away the victory.
~ Bible
There's this idea that if you take your clothes off, somehow you must have loose morals. There's still a negative attitude in our society towards women who use a strength that's inherent - their femininity - in any way that might be considered seductive.
~ Demi Moore
Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their hearts. To eat dusty bread.
~ Louise Bogan
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three husbands and two of them were just napping.
~ Rita Rudner
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
~ Alexander Herzen
What I love about my wife is that she's a really strong-minded, stubborn, fiery woman. I find that sexier than anything else.
~ Christian Bale
I am woman, hear me roar.
~ Helen Reddy
There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
~ Roseanne Barr
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
Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
~ Euripides
Give us that grand word woman once again, And let's have done with lady; one's a term Full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, Fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; And one's a word for lackeys.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
~ Unknown
I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.
~ Madonna
It's really hard to walk in a single woman's shoes -- that's why you sometimes need really special shoes!
~ Sex and the City
I am my own woman.
~ Evita Peron
If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman.
~ Helen Reddy
The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman.
~ Mexican proverb
If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't do.
~ Helen Lawrenson