Strong Willed Women Quotes & Sayings

Poetry can startle you, awaken you, make you fall in love, take your breath away. When those words sink in, you'll never look at your life or your journey the same way again. — Maria Shriver

I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry. — Vanessa Hudgens

The clubhouse on the golf links was — G.K. Chesterton

To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable. As we learn to bow, we discover that the heart holds more freedom and compassion than we could imagine. — Jack Kornfield

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? — Confucius

For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient. — Jennifer Donnelly

If you have enthusiasm, you should thank God for it. If you do not have it, you should get down on your knees and pray for it. — Michelle Moore

I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses. — Maria Edgeworth

Especially, I think, living in any fantasy or science fiction world means really understanding what you're seeing and reading really densely on a level that a lot of people don't bother to read. — Joss Whedon

I love seeing strong-willed women inspire little girls. I hope someday some new artist will say 'I was inspired by the Dixie Chicks. — Emily Robison

The whore or the saint: these seemed to be the prototypes set up by the Church's historic misogyny. But was there no alternative model to follow?

Yes, for Anne had seen for herself that it was possible to be an independent thinker, set free from the pattern of sinful Eve or patient Griselda. She had been in the company of clever, strong-willed women like the Regent Margaret of Austria and Margaret of Navarre. The influence of evangelism had enabled women of character to take an alternative path, one that offered Anne Boleyn a different future. — Joanna Denny

We have successful, strong-willed, independent women who stand up for conservative, traditional values. Women are leading this movement because they've been raised to be unafraid....I didn't grow up feeling oppressed. I didn't grow up feeling like a victim. — S. E. Cupp

I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books. — Sally Mann

More than most, I know the pain of surviving. — Ann Aguirre

Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

Lucifer will be furious with you for failing, but it's not like he can do anything about it. Women don't always do what you want, even if you're Lord of the Underworld. — Trinity Faegen

It just isn't possible for you to ask me all the questions, or for me to give you all the answers. — Jose Saramago

When it came to the strong-willed women in my life, I found it was sometimes easiest to nod and agree with whatever they dictated was best. — Richelle Mead

The fact that I get to live a life of passion where I'm doing only things that I love in this world and help people along the way. Life's good. I always remind myself of that. — Urijah Faber

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed. — Samantha Mathis

... but something is speaking and it's neither Miller nor I. It's desire. — Jodi Ellen Malpas

First Blood Rambo knife by Jimmy Lile. It features a saw, a guard with straight and Philips screwdriver heads, holes in the guard for a wrist lanyard, — David Morrell