Female Strength Quotes

“I hate society’s notion that there is something wrong with sex. Something wrong with a woman who loves sex.”
― Alessandra Torre

“Mami wanted me to be a lady:
sit up straight, cross my ankles,

let men protect me.
Papi wanted me to be a leader.

To think quick & strike hard,
to speak rarely, but when I did,

to always be heard. Me?
Playing chess taught me a queen is both:

deadly & graceful, poised & ruthless.
Quiet & cunning. A queen

offers her hand to be kissed,

& can form it into a fist
while smiling the whole damn time.

But what happens when those principles
only apply in a game? & in the real world,

I am not treated as a lady or a queen,
as a defender or opponent

but as a girl so many want to strike off the board.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, Clap When You Land

“For my mum, who has always thought that a woman with an axe was more interesting than a princess”
― Natalie Haynes, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths

“A woman cruel and wonderful. So small and wild and determined to survive.”
― Alyssa Songsiridej