Ally Carter Quotes

But like Elle Woods, I do not like to be underestimated.

I enjoy being a girl.

I'm not a goddess, for crying out loud. I'm a regular person who took feminism - which I have a deep connection to - and mixed it with music, which I really love to do.

I've been boxing ever since I was 16. I love surprising people who think a short, blond girl can't fight! Just because I look a certain way doesn't mean I'm weak.

I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.

The excitement that you were feeling about a special, unique path for yourself as a woman is all part of your identification with and attachment to being female. And that's ultimately all ego.

Even if I wouldn't wear something myself, I think I know how women feel, how women want to look. I can really relate to women, I get on very well with women... Some women don't. I want to empower women, make women feel the best version of themselves.

I've always been an incredibly strong person, and I've also been underestimated.

During the era when women were burning their bras - which, by the way, they never actually did - but when women were first becoming liberated, I was 23. And I met a woman who asked, 'Don't you feel bad because you're sort of acting like the stupid airhead blonde?' And I totally surprised myself. I said, 'Liberation can also come from the inside.'

I am used to people underestimating me.

I have made a very good living, for more than 30 years, by being underestimated.

I don't think of myself as a powerful woman.

I'm excited to show people I'm not just a girl who wears glitzy outfits and cheers on her man every week.

I have learned to be as strong and confident as the women I represent in photographs.

I've been under-estimated myself quite often, and in some ways I quite enjoy it.

That was honestly one of the biggest learnings for us: to stay true to the value we believe our company offers, and to not allow people to undercut us just because we're women.

It's not like I don't like the term 'Diva.' It's what you make of it.

I have never let gender get in my way.

There's a big part of me that would love to be a secret agent. But if I showed up to do an investigation and interrogate someone now, they wouldn't be able to take me seriously. I've ruined that for myself.

I was, in my own eyes, a veritable James Bond — only younger, darker, and possibly better paid.

I did have a feminist side to me, just not in such a pronounced way.

I'm absolutely loving being part of Bondiana, and that not only am I a Bond girl, but I get to be an agent as well.

I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story - I will.

I never thought of myself as a sex symbol. I just do the cover of magazines. I think it’s really unfair men or people in the world think you can’t be both – you can’t be a sex symbol and a serious businessperson. Who says I can’t be both? Who says I can’t do the cover of Maxim and run a production company? Women are complex. Women are beautiful and intellectual and spiritual and social and entrepreneurial. They’re everything. And I think I’m a great example of that.

I was a weird tomboy most of my life. I didn't see the power in my own female form for quite a long time. Maybe that's a good thing.