“He called you wild that night on the dock where you drank wine from Dixie cups and went skinny dipping in the bay. Then over time wild stopped being a good thing.”— Tatum Ryan, thoughtcatalog.com
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely.”— Simone de Beauvoir, pinterest.com
“Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that a rebellion, especially when you're a woman.”— Joan Jett, cnn.com
“I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, cnn.com
“Never think you can't do anything because you're a woman. Everything is open to you as a girl. The future is yours.”— Christiane Amanpour, cnn.com
“Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.”— Margaret Sanger, bartleby.com
“Just watch, all of you men. I’ll show you what a woman can do…I’ll go across the country, I’ll race to the Moon… I’ll never look back.”— Edna Gardner Whyte, pinterest.com
“It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question ‘who am I’ except the voice inside herself.”— Betty Friedan, amazon.com
“I just love bossy women. I could be around the all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody’s passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn’t mind leading.”— Amy Poehler, goodmorningquote.com
“I’m tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, Okay.”— Madonna, goodmorningquote.com
“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.”— Oprah Winfrey, goodmorningquote.com
“I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle.”— Julie Berry, amazon.com
“Being brave enough to be alone frees you up to invite people into your life because you want them and not because you need them.”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“There are some who want to get married and others who don't. I have never had an impulse to go to the altar. I am a difficult person to lead.”— Greta Garbo, amazon.com
“I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into st…”— Tana French, amazon.com