Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."
Strong Women quotes
Strong Women
371 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Michelle Obama
Lawyer, Author, First Lady
"Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts ... good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt. They're not painful. That's not just with somebody you want to marry, but it's with the friends that you choose. It's with the people you surround yourselves with."
Jane Goodall
Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist
"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."
Robin Williams
Actor, Comedian
"If women ran the world, we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days."
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"When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful."
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"A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult."
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"If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women."
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"Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work."
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"You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation."
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"Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind."
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"What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy."
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"I think women are very powerful and I think we're more powerful together than separated."
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"I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible."
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"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
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"Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?"
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"Laughing is the best calorie burner."
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"When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'"
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"There's nothing wrong with being afraid. It's not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it. Sometimes you've got to blast through and have faith."
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"It is better to be looked over than overlooked."
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"It's not your job to like me - it's mine"
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"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!"
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"If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."
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"If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it."
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"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."
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