Strength Quotes

Not just muscle and might, but the inner resolve that carries people through impossible situations.

31459 quotes

b
"The capacity to love ourselves sustains us through hardship."
bell hooks
b
"Strength is not about hardness; it is about flexibility and resilience."
bell hooks
A
"Women are not born; they are made. And they are made through pain."
Andrea Dworkin
A
"Vulnerability is weaponized against women to keep them compliant."
Andrea Dworkin
A
"Self-respect is revolutionary when it means refusing male definition."
Andrea Dworkin
A
"Women's survival requires solidarity, not competition for male approval."
Andrea Dworkin
A
"Real power for women means refusing to participate in their own domination."
Andrea Dworkin
G
"Self-esteem must come before other-esteem."
Gloria Steinem
G
"Our bodies are not the problem. The problem is the way we've been taught to see them."
Gloria Steinem
G
"A girl child who is never told she's pretty will grow up to be a woman who is."
Gloria Steinem
G
"Real security comes from knowing who you are, not what you own."
Gloria Steinem
G
"We do not need to be perfect to be worthy of respect."
Gloria Steinem
A
"Strength comes from solidarity and shared struggle."
Angela Y. Davis
B
"Women who advocate for themselves are not selfish; they are brave."
Betty Friedan
B
"Self-worth cannot be conferred by others; it must be claimed by oneself."
Betty Friedan
B
"The reclamation of women's power is essential to human progress."
Betty Friedan
S
"Strength is not in enduring oppression silently; it is in naming and resisting it."
Shulamith Firestone
S
"Strength is built through resistance, not through acceptance of the status quo."
Shulamith Firestone
G
"Every woman knows that, regardless of all her support systems, she is truly on her own."
Germaine Greer
G
"Women are not inherently passive; passivity has been imposed upon them."
Germaine Greer
G
"The female is not a failed male, but a separate being with her own power."
Germaine Greer
G
"Women must learn to value themselves independently of male approval."
Germaine Greer
G
"Women are not decorative objects in men's lives."
Germaine Greer
G
"Women are not helpless; they have been made to feel helpless."
Germaine Greer
G
"The woman who knows herself is unstoppable."
Germaine Greer
K
"The intersection of race, gender, and class creates unique vulnerabilities."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
K
"Our differences are not obstacles to solidarity; they are the ground of it."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
K
"The strength of our movements lies in our commitment to each other's liberation."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
K
"Intersectionality is a framework for building more resilient, powerful movements."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
K
"Intersectionality is a reminder that resistance is relational."
Kimberlé Crenshaw