78 Strong Women Quotes for Courage & Determination
Strong women inspire, lead, and rise above challenges with grace and resilience.
Their words carry wisdom, power, and encouragement for those who need it most.
Whether you’re looking for motivation or a reminder of your strength, these strong women quotes will uplift and empower you.
Strong Women Quotes
“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
“No woman who had been intimate with a god was easily disturbed.” Michael Cadnum
“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
“The king may rule the kingdom, but it’s the queen who moves the board.” D.M. Timney
“And for women are rights over men similar to those of men over women.” (Quran 2:228)
“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
“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
“She does not flinch from the caress, because she feels very strong. She walks everywhere she goes but is never tired.” Anna Keesey
“A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.” Carly Simon
“A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not to be done.” Marge Piercy
“Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.” Margaret Thatcher
“A woman is like a tea bag – you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
“A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” Diane Mariechild
“The best protection any woman can have is courage.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.” Marie Curie
“If you don’t like being a doormat then get off the floor.” Al Anon
“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
“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.” Mary Wollstonecraft
“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.” Roseanne Barr
“No pressure, no diamonds.” Mary Case
“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
“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
“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
“Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.” Charlotte Whitton
“Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage.” unknown
“Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness.” Marie de Vichy-Chamrond
“The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.” Bella Abzug
“To tell a woman everything she may not do is to tell her what she can do.” Spanish Proverb
“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
“A woman with a voice is by definition a strong woman. But the search to find that voice can be remarkably difficult.” Melinda Gates
“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” Albert Einstein
“Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a challenge to others.” Amelia Earhart
“I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story I will.” Amy Schumer
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” Angela Davis
“Figure out who are you separate from your family. Find who you are in this world and what you need to feel good alone. I think that’s the most important thing in life. Find a sense of self. With that, you can do anything else.” Angelina Jolie
“I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one.” Calamity Jane
“A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.” Carly Simon
“I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” Ella Fitzgerald
“We want women leaders today as never before. Leaders who are not afraid to be called names and who are willing to go out and fight. I think women can save civilization. Women are persons.” Emily Murphy
“A strong woman is someone who is able to smile this morning like she wasn’t crying last night.” Harriet Morgan
“Don’t hold back because you think it’s unladylike. We shouldn’t be shamed out of our anger. We should be using it. Using it to make change in our own lives, and using it to make change in the lives around us.” Jessica Valenti
“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.” John Steinbeck
“If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.” Katharine Hepburn
“Be gentle, kind and beautiful, yet firm and strong, both mentally and physically.” Keiko Fukuda
“I have learned that a woman can be a fighter, a freedom fighter, a political activist, and that she can fall in love, and be loved, she can be married, have children, be a mother. Revolution must mean life also; every aspect of life.” Leila Khaled
“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.” Lilith Saintcrow
“Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.” Mae Jemison
“One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.” Marilyn Monroe
“I think the key is for women not to set any limits.” Martina Navratilova
“You don’t have to play masculine to be a strong woman.” Mary Elizabeth Winstead
“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.” Maya Angelou
“There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” Michelle Obama
“Women that believe in each other can survive anything. Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars.” Nikita Gill
“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” Oprah Winfrey
“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.” Oprah
“A woman is a warrior too. But she is meant to be a warrior in a uniquely feminine way. Sometime before the sorrows of life did their best to kill it in us, most young women wanted to be a part of something grand, something important.” Stasi Eldredge
“It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. Men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.” Susan B. Anthony
“I think women are very powerful and I think we’re more powerful together than separated.” Zendaya
“A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” Diane Mariechild
“The strongest actions for a woman is to love herself, be herself, and shine amongst those who never believed she could.” Unknown
“A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink.” Gina Carey
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“You cannot be broken because you are a diamond, tougher than nails and a jewel in the rough.” Unknown
“She was powerful not because she wasn’t scared but because she went on so strongly, despite the fear.” Atticus
“Strong women don’t have attitudes, we have standards.” Marilyn Monroe
“A girl should be two things: Who and what she wants.” Coco Chanel
“Females are strong as hell.” The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
“Well-behaved women rarely make history.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“She believed she could, so she did.” R.S. Grey
“The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” Amelia Earhart
“You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.” Melissa Etheridge
“To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.” Dr. Seuss
“Champions keep playing until they get it right.” Billie Jean King
“Women are the real architects of society.” Cher
“Real queens fix each other’s crowns.” Unknown
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” Ayn Rand
