“You don't have to be pretty. You don't owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is no…”— Erin McKean, dressaday.com
“I'm tough, I'm ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, okay.”— Madonna, people.com
“If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.”— Margaret Thatcher, telegraph.co.uk
“She was fierce, she was strong, she wasn’t simple. She was crazy and sometimes she barely slept. She always had something to say. She had flaws and that was ok. And when she was down, she got right back up. She was a beast in her own way, but one idea described her best. She was unstoppable and she…”— R.M. Drake, livefreeandbeyourself.wordpress.com
“And she just sat there, cold but beautiful, broken but deserving, so much chaos in her soul but still in search for peace.”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com
“Broken yet stronger, hurt but wiser, a few cracks in her foundation and still, she remained beautiful.”— R.H. Sin, amazon.com
“The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.”— Peter Kreeft, amazon.com
“[She is] a woman so strong she burns heaven and drenches hell.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.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
“A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.”— Diane Mariechild, pinterest.com
“A strong woman understands that the 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, pinterest.com
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.”— Maya Angelou, facebook.com