Oriana Fallaci Quotes

For me, 'I Am Woman' is all about transition. I turned 21 in December, so I'm not completely grown up yet but I'm not a little girl anymore. Just in that in-between stage. The song is everything I have ever heard a woman say. I loved this song for me and every young lady, girl and woman to be able to feel empowered in being female.

It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing.

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

Being a single woman is like going off to war.

I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.

I love being a woman. I love the sexiness we get to exude. But the best thing about being a woman is the power we have over men.

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.

I am a woman. I think I have the spirit, the intelligence, and - dare I say - the soul of a woman.

When I was kid, I couldn't wait to take the world by storm, to be a woman - beautiful, powerful, confident, sexy, thoughtful, and deep. All the things I knew I was inside... even though I was only 4.

I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.

There's a certain road in life most people walk on, because it's familiar, and they can jostle to get in front place. I prefer to take a different road that's less crowded, with many forks, where you get a wider view of life. I call it 'the road less travelled'. That's where I want to be.

You can be an absolute woman and also be smart and tough and not lose your femininity.

Absolutely, I don't believe in rules. As I tell my daughter when she is mischievous, 'Well-behaved women rarely make history.'

The women that inspire me to be honest are the women that struggle.

I want adventure in my life. I want to do things I haven't done before. These Hollywood people are so careful of their image and looking right, but there's a wildness when I come into the photographs. I just want to wade through rivers, climb mountains.

Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster's house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always, to make herself easier to find. I always hoped that after the prince found Cinderella and they rode away in their magnificent carriage, after a few miles she turned to him and said, "Could you drop me off down the road please? Now that I've finally escaped my life of horrific abuse, I'd like to see something of the world, you know?... I'll catch back up with you later, Prince, once I've found my own way.

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart.

Become goddesses of disobedience.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that.