Quotes About Independence

I just have that cop gene going on. I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters, and a cop is still a strong character.

We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.

I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time. My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo.

If there's a common denominator in all of the parts I've played, they are all strong women in tough situations.

With the Bond girls, they've always been these sexy but quite strong women, and that's a nice combination to design for.

I love strong women.

Some fathers raise their daughters to be seen and not heard; they raise their daughters not to speak out. Raise strong women!

I grew up with strong women around me. My grandmother came to this country not able to speak the language, on her own with seven kids. And she got through it.

I grew up around strong women, and I love working with strong women.

Poland is a country of strong women.

I have always received roles of strong women from the beginning.

Women have always been strong; women have been capable and able and amazing at life.

My daughter is very strong-willed and is a great kid. She doesn't drink. She doesn't smoke. She doesn't fold to peer pressure. I think how affectionate my wife and I have been with her over the years all plays into that. She realizes the more people she is exposed to that kids who have both parents around grow up to be much better people.

I was emancipated at 15 and off to Japan on a contract working. I felt for my parents. I apologized profusely years later, but I was just very strong-willed and strong-minded and had my own idea - thought outside of the box.

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

There's no controlling Billie - she's an authentic person. She's strong-willed and speaks her own mind, but she also listens to reason.

I've made my kids strong-willed and strong-minded where they know music from reality.

The human spirit is stronger than any government or institution.

I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be.

When you're a self-made man, you start very early in life. In my case it was at 9 years old when I started bringing income into the family. You get a drive that's a little different, maybe a little stronger, than somebody who inherited.

On your own, relying on yourself, you will never feel you are stronger than the mountain, and your respect for the peak grows.

People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.

I'm stronger knowing that while Donna Rice could be sold, she could not be bought.

In time, she learned to develop her own opinion of the people that she worked for, and she got stronger. Think she's now much stronger. In the beginning she wanted to believe she was strong but sometimes she faltered.