My grandmother was a very tough woman. She buried three…

My mother's mother is a very tough cookie. She buried three husbands. Two of them were just napping.

— Rita Rudner

“around 11,000 BCE an elderly woman was buried at ‘Ain Mallaha with one hand resting on a puppy, both of them curled up as…

— Ian Matthew Morris

Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to…

— John Gabriel Stedman

My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.

— Rita Rudner

I grew up in a house that was the traditional African-American home that was dominated by a matriarch, and that matriarch was my grandmother.…

— Bryan Stevenson

[At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying…

— Cleopatra

I know that a man's version of a tough woman is very different from a woman's version.

— Patty Jenkins

It's really, really tough being a woman. I think about getting work done all the time. Look at Nicole Kidman - her face is…

— Sarah Greene

I'm a New Yorker, so there are some aspects of being a tough woman that I thought I could bring to the role -…

— Rosario Dawson

“Everyone agreed that Edie was a tough woman to love, though she was worth loving.”

— Jami Attenberg

A tough woman. That lady has touched more people than I've ever known.

— Ray Allen

It's very tough for a woman in the music business, and he really was such a motivator from the beginning, when I was super-shy,…

— Gloria Estefan

Great witch, tough woman.

— Elizabeth Montgomery

I joined the Indian Police Service as a tough woman, a woman with indefatigable stamina, because I used to run for my tennis titles,…

— Kiran Bedi

While I do occasionally order items on the Internet, it's hard to teach an old shopper new tricks. I'm convinced that the catalogue will…

— Rita Rudner