Female Toughness Quotes

There aren't any hard women, only soft men.

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but I lived in Brooklyn for a while as a kid. I went to junior high school there. Girls in Brooklyn have to be tough - I mean real tough - just to get by. It's life in the combat zone.

It's a tough world out there, and women can't afford to be weenies.

I'd met some awfully tough gals in my life, and I find them compelling, if I don't have to socialize with them too much.

Females - we go just as hard as the guys, if not harder.

I was raised by boys. I can hold my own, I can fight, and I love horror movies - simply for the scare factor and the surrealism.

Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!

I'm a huge fan of Kate Beckinsale. Sigourney Weaver gets me excited. Angelina Jolie... There's just so many women that do 'tough' really well.

The real women who decide to enlist to work their way up in the ranks to become a Major in the United States Army are some freakin' tough broads.

They expect a certain amount of leniency or mercy from me because I'm a woman, and if you've ever met my mother, you should know that's not even in the cards. She's much tougher than I am - she's a retired schoolteacher, so she's seen it all.

Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don't think that's true.

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.