Daisy Shah Quotes

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.

While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.

We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!

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

I didn't think I was going to change the world for women; I just did what I did. My big thing was that I didn't change who and what I was to become successful. I will not be told what to do; I'm a real independent girl.

Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

A woman who wants to go places needs to bring her own ladder.

I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

Women are no longer just born to be married. We are here to compete with everyone and make a place for ourselves under the sun on our own.

I've always been curious and taken many risks, but that is quite atypical for a woman. On the other hand, I think that's the only way to grow beyond yourself.

I grew up in a bit of a feminist fantasy with a single mom. I was totally shielded, in a way, from an idea that I couldn't do something.

I definitely think we paved the way for other girl groups. We did it very much on our own terms without kowtowing to all the men in the business or being told what to do by anyone. For that we feel very proud.

I have never let gender get in my way.

Women and girls can do whatever they want. There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish.

The smartest thing a woman can ever learn, is to never need a man.

She believed in dreams, all right, but she also believed in doing something about them. When Prince Charming didn't come along, she went over to the palace and got him.

I wanted to be my own heroine.

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

I wanted to show that women are empowered and strong, and don't have to be saved by some male hero, but they can take care of themselves using their intelligence and their power.

I always advocate to young women that if we don't do this for ourselves, no one else is going to. We have to have a voice.

I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.

Showing that you can be sexy, strong and independent is the best thing about being a Diva. It's a great inspiration for other people.

We cannot succeed when half of us are held back. We call upon our sisters around the world to be brave, to embrace the strength within themselves and realize their full potential.

I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.