A real woman


1. “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

2. “A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

Carly Simon

3. “Somebody who’s really comfortable with who she is and doesn’t care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves.

Brian Austin Green

4. “A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.

Diane Mariechild

5. “To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do.

Spanish Proverb

6. “The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Roseanne Barr

7. “Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

Charlotte Whitton

8. “Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

9. “A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

10. “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

11. “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

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

Michael Cadnum

13. “The king may rule the kingdom, but it’s the queen who moves the board.

D.M. Timney

14. “Strong women need not declare they can carry all the burdens in life. They just quietly do it and survive with a smile.

Princess Maleiha Bajunaid Candao

15. “She does not flinch from the caress, because she feels very strong. She walks everywhere she goes but is never tired.

Anna Keesey

16. “A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not to be done.

Marge Piercy

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

Margaret Thatcher

18. “A strong woman understands that 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

19. “The best protection any woman can have is courage.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

20. “We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Marie Curie

21. “If you don’t like being a doormat then get off the floor.

Al Anon

22. “Everyone has inside of her a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Anne Frank

23. “I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves.

Mary Wollstonecraft

24. “No pressure, no diamonds.

Mary Case, indie film screenwriter

25. “I think beauty comes from within. If you’re happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

Faith Hill

26. “Women’s strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

William Moulton Marston

27. “Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.

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28. “Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness.

Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand

29. “The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

Bella Abzug

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

Melinda Gates