Strong Like Her Quotes

“Freedom of movement and being in control of one’s body are not privileges, they’re fundamental human rights.”
― Haley Shapley, Strong Like Her: A Celebration of Rule Breakers, History Makers, and Unstoppable Athletes

“She clarified that her concept of beauty wasn’t gorgeous blond hair or a perfect nose but “vitality, health, magnetism, and symmetry.”
― Haley Shapley, Strong Like Her: A Celebration of Rule Breakers, History Makers, and Unstoppable Athletes

“As she strengthened her body, she felt she was strengthening her character.”
― Haley Shapley, Strong Like Her: A Celebration of Rule Breakers, History Makers, and Unstoppable Athletes

“COURAGE DOESN’T ALWAYS ROAR. SOMETIMES IT’S A QUIET VOICE AT THE END OF THE DAY SAYING, ‘YOU CAN TRY AGAIN TOMORROW.’ ”
― Haley Shapley, Strong Like Her: A Celebration of Rule Breakers, History Makers, and Unstoppable Athletes

“Climbing is a social activity, where we work together and support one another. When we have a partner at the other end of the rope, our life is in their hands.”
― Haley Shapley, Strong Like Her: A Celebration of Rule Breakers, History Makers, and Unstoppable Athletes

“As a woman’s belief in her physical prowess grows, it does more than improve how much she can achieve athletically—it also elevates her overall well-being, including emotional, social, and economic health, and these are all signs of strength to strive for.”
― Haley Shapley, Strong Like Her: A Celebration of Rule Breakers, History Makers, and Unstoppable Athletes

“a woman is fully capable of taking a dip in the ocean and emerging invigorated—and, most important, alive.”
― Haley Shapley, Strong Like Her: A Celebration of Rule Breakers, History Makers, and Unstoppable Athletes

“The first female swimmers were women on the fringes, women willing to hurl themselves into the water in bathing suits that exposed their flesh,”
― Haley Shapley, Strong Like Her: A Celebration of Rule Breakers, History Makers, and Unstoppable Athletes

“You cannot be brave,” she said in one lecture, “if your diaphragm is squeezed and you can’t breathe properly.”
― Haley Shapley, Strong Like Her: A Celebration of Rule Breakers, History Makers, and Unstoppable Athletes

“pushing physical limits wasn’t only about gritting through a tough task but about finding enjoyment, self-confidence, and pride in one’s ability to do so.”
― Haley Shapley, Strong Like Her: A Celebration of Rule Breakers, History Makers, and Unstoppable Athletes

“It is good for women to see how much a woman can endure.”
― Haley Shapley, Strong Like Her: A Celebration of Rule Breakers, History Makers, and Unstoppable Athletes

“you could carve your own path, one that involved extraordinary achievement physically, mentally, and even economically.”
― Haley Shapley, Strong Like Her: A Celebration of Rule Breakers, History Makers, and Unstoppable Athletes

“Any muscle, well developed, is beautiful; muscular lines are lines of beauty everywhere. I have yet to hear admiration of a lady’s arm that has not good biceps and triceps under its coating of feminine adipose; and as to the forearm, the most beautiful specimens in flesh and blood that I know of are the forearms of pianistes, who have muscles of steel from wrist to elbow.”
― Haley Shapley, Strong Like Her: A Celebration of Rule Breakers, History Makers, and Unstoppable Athletes

“Being strong is not just a physical thing for me; it’s being able to walk out into this world unapologetically.”
― Haley Shapley, Strong Like Her: A Celebration of Rule Breakers, History Makers, and Unstoppable Athletes