Sherwood Anderson Quotes

The women are the strong ones, truly.

I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.

I think women are strong, and they have never been weak.

Women themselves are so happy, and so beautiful, when they're strong, that they naturally choose powerful men, even if that power's so enermous there's a real risk it could shatter them.

Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.

There are times a women's just got to fight even if she knows it's a losing battle

Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.

I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it.

I think for a girl to be strong, it doesn't have to involve being physically strong.

I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.

I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.

To me, women have always been the sturdiest people in my life and have been incredible sources of energy.

I can't disappear. I come from a family of beautiful women, strong women - and 'strong' defined by being themselves.

Women are as precious as they are stronger than any man that I have met.

Women have always been strong; women have been capable and able and amazing at life.

The strong creation created by God in the world is not the lion, not the elephant, not the tiger - the girl.

Women are tough; women are resilient and have an undying hope.

Women are tough, but sometimes women present toughness in different ways.

It's interesting when people say, 'You always play strong women,' because as far as I'm concerned, women are strong. I think that's what women are. We have got that vulnerability, but we have got that strength. We are survivors.

Every single girl, whether we want to recognize it or not, is a warrior.

You can be feminine and strong, at the same time. You can be a bad-ass and, at the same time, have a vulnerableness when you're hysterically crying, like most of us girls.

You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Thank God for such women, who make no apologies for their oceanic depth and riptides of emotion.

The only thing I consciously avoid is playing the victim. I think women are portrayed as the victim in so many things, and I really like women with strength - although I feel now I may have gone overboard by playing so many strong, sassy women.