“The rest of us have never embraced your victim mentality; we are not victims. We are people, the same way that men are. We are equal, yet different. We, unlike you, realize that is not mutually exclusive.”— Lori Ziganto, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, female
“But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.”— Miriam Toews, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, female
“When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.”— Sally Klempton, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, female
“A WOMAN’S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE…AND THE SENATE.”— Kristin Hannah, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Girls
“They always, always underestimate women.”— Susan Ee, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Girls
“I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry.”— Sonia Johnson, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Girls
“I merged those two words, black and feminist, because I was surrounded by black women who were very tough and and who always assumed they had to work and rear children and manage homes.”— Toni Morrison, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Girls
“How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.”— Sue Monk Kidd, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Girls
“The heart of a woman will never be found in the arms of a man.”— Vanessa Carlton, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Girls
“There shall never be another season of silence until women have the same rights men have on this green earth.”— Susan B Anthony, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Girls
“I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.”— Elizabeth Cady Stanton, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Girls
“For too many centuries women have been being muses to artists. I wanted to be the muse, I wanted to be the wife of the artist, but I was really trying to avoid the final issue—that I had to do the job myself.”— Anaïs Nin, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Art
“I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.”— Dolly Parton, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Limits
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.”— Simone de Beauvoir, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Men
“There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That’s their problem. It’s not mine.”— Gloria Allred, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Men
“People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.”— Rebecca West, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Men
“I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”— Madonna, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Men
“It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can’t.”— Carol K. Carr, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Men
“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.”— Charlotte Whitton, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Men
“There’s nothing a man can do, that I can’t do better and in heels.”— Ginger Rogers, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Alpha Female, Power, Woman, Women, Men