“She is untamed. She is the wild. She will come to you like a storm and wash you of your fears. And then when she leaves, you will wonder how you ever hated the rain.”— Ariana Dancu, facebook.com
“I am not beautiful. I am not lovely. I am not pretty. I am not fair. I am as radiant as the sun.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.”— Madeleine Albright, huffingtonpost.com
“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, thoughtcatalog.com
“You don't have to be pretty. You don't owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is no…”— Erin McKean, dressaday.com
“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”— Madonna, people.com
“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”— Margaret Thatcher, telegraph.co.uk
“A strong woman understands that the gifts such as logic, decisiveness, and strength are just as feminine as intuition and emotional connection. She values and uses all of her gifts”— Nancy Rathburn, harpersbazaar.com
“She was fierce, she was strong, she wasn’t simple. She was crazy and sometimes she barely slept. She always had something to say. She had flaws and that was ok. And when she was down, she got right back up. She was a beast in her own way, but one idea described her best. She was unstoppable and she…”— R.M. Drake, livefreeandbeyourself.wordpress.com
“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.”— Kavita N. Ramdas, mtholyoke.edu
“I believe in strong women. I believe in the woman who is able to stand up for herself. I believe in the woman who doesn’t need to hide behind her husband’s back. I believe that if you have problems, as a woman you deal with them, you don’t play victim, you don’t make yourself look pitiful, you don’t…”— C. Joybell C., sayingimages.com
“A weak man can’t love a strong woman. He won’t know what to do with her.”— Unknown, iheartintelligence.com
“Empowered Women 101: If they made you an option you will always be an option vs. the person they really wanted. Don't ever settle for someone that makes you go through hell only to stay with you because they don't have the confidence to go get what they really want. Fear will always follow your rule…”— Shannon L. Alder, cottagegardenliving.wordpress.com
“A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.”— Marge Piercy, amazon.com
“You need to know that a truly strong, independent woman does not walk through life with her heart wide open. She has had to put up walls to block toxicity to obtain her strength. She is skeptical and always on alert from a lifetime of defense against predators. She is going to be a bit jaded, a litt…”— Maggie Young, amazon.com
“Let me make this perfectly clear to you. Though some might seek to make it appear otherwise, I am not a bride to be bartered away to another kingdom, not a prize of war, not a mouthpiece for your Komizar. I am not a chip in a card game to be mindlessly tossed into the center of the pot, nor one to b…”— Mary E. Pearson, amazon.com
“I’ve often thought it unfair that women are expected to stay at home when there’s a fight to be won. If a woman has the strength to bear a child, she can swing a sword as well as any man.”— Karen Hawkins, amazon.com
“A strong woman builds her own world. She is one who is wise enough to know that it will attract the man she will gladly share it with.”— Ellen J. Barrier, amazon.com
“With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude and inner fulfillment.”— Elizabeth Prioleau, amazon.com