Petra Collins Quotes

One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.

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

For many years now, I feel like my own body struggle has been linked and connected with women I meet in the world. I think we're in this together.

Growing up, I wish I hadn't tried so hard to fit in. I'd tell myself to just embrace what you were born with because it's beautiful and you were made like that for a reason. It's tough being a girl. I think we need all of the support we can get.

I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

What I think is exciting is that, to a certain extent, there is a revolution happening where black women are owning their own beauty, despite the standard of beauty that in the past has not had space for it.

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.

One thing that I can say is that I think it's important that there's some sort of celebration of beautiful women that isn't just exploitive.

It's common for people to start questioning themselves. As a female, I'm going to offer the advice I gave myself: You look at your strengths, you look at your goals, and accept that you are who you are. Be true to that.

I think Man Repeller is more about self-confidence than it is about a woman's relationship with a man.

I meet and talk to women from every corner of this planet, and I can find beauty in each and every one of them.

I'm passionate about encouraging girls to be confident in their own skin.

For me, it always goes back to what my mother taught me and my sisters. That all women are beautiful, and we should embrace each other.

I want to inspire people to tear down their walls, especially for teenage girls.

The great thing about being a woman is the power of reinvention.

Ah, well, I do think the generation that came after me has changed. I think there is a growing sense that young women should like themselves a bit more.

I definitely am very secure with my body and my likes and dislikes and the imperfections that some might call flaws. I'm like, 'Those are my thighs; it's just what it is.' I think a lot of that has to do also with... women being a lot more vocal about the fact that, you know, being flawless is false.

As a woman now, I want to share things. I have girlfriends in their twenties, and I say, "Ask me anything. You can learn from the things I did wrong, and you can learn from the things you think I'm doing right. Take whatever you want and make it your own."

I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

Until as women we all say, No! We are not going to starve ourselves, nothing is going to change. We're our own worse enemies sometimes but I still blame men.

Be the Woman You Want to Be.

It gets better. It gets so much easier to be in your skin no matter what size that skin is. If you do something that you're good at and that makes you happy, that's the best outlet that I could ever suggest to anybody....if you are able to just enjoy who you are, and if you can learn to love who you are, then you'll just be a much happier person.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.

The SI Swim cover was life changing, not just for myself but for women everywhere who've been told they can't do something because of their size. Body positivity is no longer a side conversation, it's mainstream.