“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.com
“There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That’s their problem. It’s not mine.”— Gloria Allred, thoughtcatalog.com
“People call me a feminist whenever I express statements that distinguish me from a doormat.”— Rebecca West, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”— Madonna, thoughtcatalog.com
“It is amazing what a woman can do if only she ignores what men tell her she can’t.”— Carol K. Carr, thoughtcatalog.com
“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.com
“There’s nothing a man can do, that I can’t do better and in heels.”— Ginger Rogers, thoughtcatalog.com
“Whether I am meant to or not, I challenge assumptions about women. I do make some people uncomfortable, which I’m well aware of, but that’s just part of coming to grips with what I believe is still one of the most important pieces of unfinished business in human history—empowering women to be able t…”— Hillary Clinton, popsugar.com
“We should not wait for someone else to come and raise our voice. We should do it by ourselves. We should believe in ourselves. Yes, we can do it. One day you will see that all the girls will be powerful; all the girls will be going to school. And it is possible only by our struggle; only when we rai…”— Malala Yousafzai, youtube.com
“How many women had to hit that glass before the pressure of their effort caused it to evolve from a thick pane of glass into just a thin sheet of splintered ice? … Making it through the glass ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman’s footprints…”— Shonda Rhimes, hollywoodreporter.com
“If you understand how the universe operates, you control it, in a way.”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com
“The computer in your cell phone today is a million times cheaper and a thousand times more powerful and about a hundred thousand time smaller than the one computer at MIT in 1965.”— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com
“Make sure that your level of interest is no greater than his. You will have more power if you are truly less interested, not just pretending indifference. Keep your level of emotional investment ‘appropriate’ to the circumstances.”— Susan Walsh, hookingupsmart.com
“Let him think he's in charge. Men don’t like to be bossed around or dominated. They want to be the alpha. That doesn’t mean you can’t be in charge, he just has to think he’s in charge. Find ways to drop subtle hints to get what you want.”— Abby Stern, thebolde.com
“From now on, be on the lookout for opportune moments to touch him "accidentally." For example, don't ask him for his keys. Glide your hand into his pocket and slowly take them out. Don't ask him to pass the salt. Reach across him, letting your breasts rub against his arm. Don't walk past him in a cr…”— Colleen Rush, cosmopolitan.com
“Guys don't know the power we hold over them with the right tint of lip gloss.”— Robin Mellom, books.google.com
“I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.”— Sylvia Plath, books.google.com
“Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com