Quotes of: Strong-women Keyword

There's a lot of women's organisations, but they're all working separately. If you get people together, as a collaborative voice, it's strong.

Annie Lennox

I love to play women who are strong and unapologizing and kind of rough around the edges and don't care what anybody thinks about that.

Carrie-Anne Moss

My mother and I used to watch 'Maude,' and I think she loved 'Maude' because my mother wanted to see strong women out there with a voice.

Andie MacDowell

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Jane Austen

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

Ruth Benedict

I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it's a bad thing to get old.

Sophia Myles

Many women say that verbal violence causes more harm than physical violence because it damages self-esteem so deeply. Women have not wanted to hear battered women say that the verbal abuse was as hurtful as the physical abuse: to acknowledge that tru...

Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism

To all those women -- strong enough to be heroes; fair enough to be ladies. This song is for you.

Robert Fanney

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

Joan Allen

My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

Anthony Minghella

I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.

Holland Taylor

...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)

J.D. Robb

I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.

Romola Garai

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

Carla Gugino

The older I get, the more impressed I am with women. I have yet to meet a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.

Diane von Furstenberg

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

Gloria Allred

As Buddhism moved to the West, one of the big characteristics was the strong place of women. That didn't exist in the countries of origin. It's just a sign of our culture.

Pema Chodron

And that's the point! Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force strength power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have becom...

Jill Lepore

And that's the point; not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have ...

Jill Lepore

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 ...

S.E. Cupp

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

Gal Gadot