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Quotes About Strength

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
~ Washington Irving
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these together ought to be able to turn it back and get it right side up again.
~ Sojourner Truth
I'm not a woman, I'm a force of nature.
~ Courtney Love
What will not woman, gentle woman dare; when strong affection stirs her spirit up?
~ Robert Southey
I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
~ Nancy Reagan
Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free til they find someone just as wild to run with them.
~ Sex and the City
We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.
~ Famke Janssen
The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.
~ Wilson Mizner
Four things greater than all things are, - Women and Horses and Power and War.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Women who insist upon having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type.
~ Fran Lebowitz
Women hold up half the sky.
~ Mao Tse-Tung
I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with her lighted torch and all the time knowing that it is empty? This has seemed to me a charming image of the women of my time. There they were, keeping the world in order by sitting on the mystery of life, and knowing themselves that there was no mystery.
~ Isak Dinesen
Despise not yourselves, ye women; the Son of God was born of a woman.
~ Saint Augustine
Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.
~ Roseanne Barr
There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.
~ Beverly Sills
I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.
~ Margaret Mead
Charm - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
~ Havelock Ellis
Women are the real architects of society.
~ Cher
A Women who can cope with the terrible twos can cope with anything.
~ Unknown
I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
~ Rita Mae Brown
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
~ Roseanne Barr
Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above-average.
~ Garrison Keillor
The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women merely adored.
~ Oscar Wilde
Women have to harness their power - its absolutely true. It's just learning not to take the first no. And if you can't go straight ahead, you go around the corner.
~ Cher