Paddy Ashdown Quotes

Don't date the captain of the football team; be the captain of the football team.

Men secretly respect a woman who is strong, has confidence and has dreams of her own. There's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!

I feel like I have to have a voice.

I'm not a downtrodden woman. I just won't be.

Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

I have my own strength.

I don't need someone else's power. I'm obtaining my own.

I am and always will be a leader.

Know your power.

Don't be afraid of your own power.

Freedom can never be reached by the weak.

Home is where my dignity lives, not necessarily where my ancestors put down roots.

I've always known I've had power.

A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today, unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.

Where are we really going? Always home.

Freedom is the slogan of the strong, who feel self confident, self sufficient to do it alone.

Don't wait for people to tell you who you are. Show them.

We were not born to sue, but to command.

Their strength is their strength.

I had ambitions to set out and find, like an odyssey or going home somewhere, set out to find this home that I'd left a while back and couldn't remember exactly where it was, but I was on my way there. And encountering what I encountered on the way was how I envisioned it all. I didn't really have any ambition at all. I was born very far from where I'm supposed to be, and so, I'm on my way home, you know?

I can do whatever I want.

I feel in complete control in every situation.

I have never given others a chance to exploit me.