Suzi Quatro Quotes

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

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.

Let's be clear, I'm a strong woman.

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.

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

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

I've never been the wilting flower. I've never been the girl who's subservient to a man.

I was never going to be one of those women who put their career on hold, who put their hand out to their husband to ask permission. I used to think that was the worst.

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 am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

I'm never going to be the woman behind the man.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

I can't be worrying about what other people think of me. I am my own person, and I have made it this far on my own. This is me - take me or leave me. I don't owe explanations to the rest of the world, only to my family.

I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.

My definition of courage is never letting anyone define you.

I think, as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise our daughters to be the women they want to be - not the women we think they should be.

Lara Croft is such a strong individual, she's very driven, she doesn't need a man, she's speaks her own mind, and that she's in control of her own life. It's a lot of what women want and have.

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.

No, I am who I am. I'm not going to change for anybody.

Women today have the keys to the doors which have been barred against them and they will open them without asking consent.

The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence.

No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.

I've always been on the side of fully emancipated women with independent minds.

I think women need to empower themselves instead of asking for handouts.

A lot of guys thought I'd bow down to them, but I wasn't like that. I was just trying to play football and do my thing.