Nelly Furtado Quotes

As a young girl, I'm always going to have to work a bit harder to prove myself; that's just reality. But having to work harder makes me feel like girls are stronger, too.

There always will be stereotypes that women can't drive. When I hear the comments, it just makes me more determined to prove them wrong.

I think maybe it's too bad that our society isn't further along and this is such a big deal. I think it's time...that people realize that women in this country can do any job they want to do.

There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace that.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

I grew up in a world that told girls they couldn't play rock 'n' roll.

As women, we feel we can't ask for things. There's been a lot of research done recently and, more often than not, if a woman goes in to ask for a raise, she'll get it. But she's thinking, 'Do I deserve it? I've got to give a list of why I deserve it.' Whereas a man will just go in and ask for a raise. It's so scary.

I think there have always been funny women, from Carol Burnett to Joan Rivers. When the audience sees a woman, they innately know she's worked twice as hard to get there, she's had to prove that she can be the leader, first, and then be funny on top of it. She has to emit a confidence that she's in control.

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

It's such a male-dominated industry. You can be a feminist, it's just difficult because it sometimes comes back at you.

I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.

Female inferiority is internalised by us. Women need a lot more confidence.

When I got into the music business in 1976, there weren't many women on the roster. As a woman, you don't complain; you work twice as hard, and you do your job.

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.

We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.

Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

In this industry, all the heads of labels are men, but every artist has to prove themselves, regardless of their sex. I have always been very vocal about the women sticking together.

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.