Tough Lady Quotes

• I'm tough, ambitious and I know exactly what I want.

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  Madonna Ciccone

  Strong Women   Memorable   Feminist Art  

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My grandmother instilled in me a toughness that comes with survival. She was a tough lady and never truly enjoyed her life. She would always worry about things and I would tell her that it wasn't going to get her anywhere and it didn't. I wasn't even that smart back then, but I knew that worrying about everyone else wasn't good for her health. As Latinos, we stress and worry so much about the future when the future is today. As long as we protect what's good in our lives, we will be all right.

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  George Lopez

  Smart   Stress   Grandmother  

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• My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.

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  Steve Carell

  Death   New York   Husband  

  "Steve Carell: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2013.

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• My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

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  Dean Koontz

  Wife   Scare   Looks  

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• Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

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  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership   Business   Women  

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

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  Margaret Thatcher

  Leadership   Encouraging   Strong Women  

  "The feminist who didn't want to be called one" by Christine Todd Whitman, www.politico.com. December 9, 2013.

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• Keep it up, wise guy. I'm always going to be taller than you once you're lying unconscious on the ground.

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  Jim Butcher

  Wise   Lying   Guy  

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.46, Penguin

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• It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

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  Mae West

  Funny   Sexy   Strong Women  

  Belle of the Nineties (motion picture) (1934)

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