Misty Copeland Quotes

I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.

A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.

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.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

The women I cast have to embody all sorts of contradictions... I have to find the right woman to speak to other women.

I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There's not enough women like that on the screen.

High heels empower women in a way.

Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

There seems to be great roles for women, and it's not necessarily - you don't have to be young women. Suddenly, we're realizing that, generally, women are interesting, and they can also be weird and crazy and mean.

I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.

I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.

I've always said that I felt women are more heroic.

I have an appreciation for strong women.

I'm very sensitive about the fact that there's not a lot of good work for women in cinema that also deals with strong characters. But 'strong character' doesn't mean 'masculine character' - but something that finds the strength in femininity and the beauty in femininity. And something that says you can find femininity in men in some way.

Women are as precious as they are stronger than any man that I have met.

Women have always been strong; women have been capable and able and amazing at life.

Even when I go out to the ring, yes, I am the big, bad heater monster, but I'm out there showing young girls that I can still be athletic just because I'm a big, bad heater. I can still go out there and cut promos like the other pretty girls and wear my hair down and put makeup on and do everything that they say that you can't.

Women are tough; women are resilient and have an undying hope.

The great thing about 'Total Divas' is that it gives people who don't watch wrestling an avenue to see how empowering we women are.

I come from really strong women. My mum is really strong, so that's driven that into me, and my grandma was the strongest woman I've known in my life.

Most drag queens dress up as super women, as an over exaggeration of the female form, because we like women, usually powerful women. I think that's why we are so over exaggerated; we are an amplification of the women who empowered us in our youth.

There's a way to express femininity and independence and strength without going for hanging fruit.

I think women are strong, and they have never been weak.

It's difficult to exist as a woman, especially I think as a powerful woman. You want to stand strong and you want to be considered and equal.

If there's one great thing I think that's happened over the years, it's that women are being accepted into a man's world in all different areas, whether it's flying an airplane or driving a race car.