Pam Grier Quotes

Women don't seek power for its own sake, but to make a difference and overcome each challenge

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

As women, we know that we must always find ways to change the process because the present institutions want to hold on to power and keep the status quo.

I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Women don't necessarily understand that it is possible to have the same level of ambition as men - they allow themselves to be held back by the obstacles rather than empowered by the possibilities.

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.'

Young girls in Haryana should speak their mind and not be afraid to challenge the system.

We really broke down some doors for women and for musicians in general. It was just go out and form a band and don't care what anyone thinks.

I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention.

My advice for other female directors: don't think of your gender as a handicap. Don't think about it at all. Just tell the best story you can, and don't stop until you do.

This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

I think women should support each other's work, encourage each other's work, help develop each other's voices and I think, ultimately, when we can stop having the conversation about 'women filmmakers', and just talk about 'filmmakers', then we'll know we've really gotten somewhere.

Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act.

I have something to prove, as long as I know there's something that needs improvement, and you know that everytime I move, I make a woman's movement.

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

The roots of Silicon Valley are full of stories of immigrants and minority groups who experienced bigotry and made it anyway. Why should women be any different?

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

When I was 14, I told all the girls in my class that I wanted to be the first woman prime minister. Someone else beat me to that!

I have an overactive sense of justice. I want women to realize you don't have to work for the company. You can run the company. I want the scope for them to be endless.

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.