Mara Brock Akil Quotes

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

All the women in my family are extremely strong.

Shania Twain and Martina McBride and all these wonderful women were saying that it's awesome to be a woman, and it's awesome to be a confident woman. Obviously, I could never compare myself to them, and I want to be my own thing, but I think that message is what I want to say as an artist.

Beyonce's music is like lipstick or a decidedly tall pair of heels: It's empowering.

I think that women who know who they are are beautiful.

My lyrics are for strong, independent women who are both smart and fashionable.

Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.

We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

Yes, I adore the fact that girls like me.

I admire those women who really knew who they were and didn't apologize for it. Katharine Hepburn? She was ahead of her time.

I think it's important for women to know that you don't have to compromise your fullness, your dopeness. You can be everything you want to be.

It's interesting when people say, 'You always play strong women,' because as far as I'm concerned, women are strong. I think that's what women are. We have got that vulnerability, but we have got that strength. We are survivors.

It makes me proud to help girls realize that they don't have to change who they are.

I love being called Baddest Female.

All Indian women have one thing in common... we don't feel prosecuted for who we are and actually face our challenges head-on. And I think that's what we need to do, we need to be confident about who we are.

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.

I really believe that women who are confident in their natural beauty are the most beautiful

I enjoy being a girl.

I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

I had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on who I am. Know who I am, know what I want, and know it. Not waver on it and be secure in that. And I still struggle with it. But I really... I can't be moved. You can't move me, and that all comes with loving myself, and I'm like my best buddy.

There's nothing I have to hide or defend. I'm gonna live my life. And there are times when people wanna try to attack me, and I don't know why, but they will. And that's okay.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.

I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.