“I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled”— Charlize Theron, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, voice, Silence
“I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence would save us, but it won’t.”— Audre Lorde, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, voice, Speak Up For Yourself
“After all those years as a woman hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, ‘I’m enough.'”— Anna Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, I'm Enough, You're Enough
“The people I’m furious with are the women’s liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That’s true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.”— Anita Loos, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Men, Funny
“Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… A woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.”— Barbara Streisand, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Passion, Commitment
“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.”— Natalie Portman, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Love, In love
“Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.”— Ambrose Bierce, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Love, In love
“Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes.’ They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.'”— Clare Boothe Luce, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Work, Women In The Workplace
“Bitches get stuff done.”— Tina Fey, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Work, Women In The Workplace
“People don’t want to see women doing things they don’t think women should do.”— Joan Jett, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Work, Women In The Workplace
“Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?”— Barbara Streisand, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Women, Woman, Work, Women In The Workplace