Laurie Simmons Quotes

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

Women rule our lives, don't they?

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.

I lived with my mom and sister, so I'm more used to dealing with women.

I came from a matriarchal family, and was always treated as an individual.

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I've spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

We don't think only men can be powerful and strong. Behind the heads of the Mafia, the leaders of culture, there are always very strong women. European culture is a matriarchy, especially in the south. The women have a lot of power.

I was raised primarily by women. I had a mother who almost killed herself to survive, I had a sister who was eight years older who was like a second mother, and my mother had two sisters. In the environment I grew up in, I heard a lot of female perspectives.

I don't have a lot of men in my life. I'm married, but I have daughters. I'm surrounded by a lot of females in my world.

Now my mother, interestingly enough, was not a feminist in her own mind.

In fact, it was the women in our house who were in the saddle. If men are the gods, women are not only the presidents but all the ministers of the government.

The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

Men should be disqualified for public office. Women should run the planet. They're better than us.

You cannot escape the fact that women mould your first five years, whether you like it or not. And I can't say I do like it very much.

Women rule men's lives - every decision a man makes is based on a woman.

I've got three sisters, five aunties, and my mom. It must have had an influence on me growing up.

I believe women are the glue of everything.

According to my mother, my wife and my daughter, this world would be a lot better off with women running things.

My home life now is mostly women. They are better than us. They make me better.

I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.

I feel like I think like a woman because I grew up with my mother and my sister, so I've just been programmed to think like a girl.

My family's full of wild women.