Strong Independent Women Quotes

I consider myself to be a very strong, independent woman.

Sometimes, I feel that if you're a strong, independent woman it scares people away, but actually it does the opposite.

We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know

Initial of Creation, and The Exponent of Earth

Be sure of yourself, don't let anyone bully you, be a strong and independent woman or boy.

A Bond girl must be a strong and independent woman, but at the same time charming and sensual. Those opposite qualities combined together make her interesting. She must be strong but at the same time feminine.

When we do the best we can, we never know what miracles await.

I have a lot of sides to my personality and what you see on 'The Hills' is a strong, independent woman, which I am. But I also have a sensitive side that I don't show too much.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own.

Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.” – Janis Joplin

The day will come when men will recognize woman as his peer, not only at the fireside, but in councils of the nation. Then, and not until then, will there be the perfect comradeship, the ideal union between the sexes that shall result in the highest development of the race.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.

A man in the house is worth two in the street.

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people.

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.

Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

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.

Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.

I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

Man who hates cats is insecure, but a man who likes them is one worth keeping. If he can appreciate a cat, he can appreciate a strong, independent woman.

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.'

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.... Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.