Rosalynn Carter Quotes

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

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.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

Adapt to yourself, bro. What I wanna say is don't let nobody tell you that you should stay in your lane, bro.

And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

I don't want to be a princess who sits on the sidelines; I want to be present and actively involved. It's a life with a purpose.

We can do it all and have it all. That's what I want young women to know. Make their own music. If nobody's making music for them, make your own. Do what you are passionate about and don't let anybody or anything stop you or convince you that you are not worthy.

My mum is a rock star, and I idolise her. She was born in a conservative Muslim family, where the girls were not educated much, and she was required to wear a burkha. She felt repressed but dreamt of driving her own car, walking around in jeans and wearing sunglasses, and she did.

No matter where you come from, no matter what you decide to do in life, you can do anything you want to do.

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.

I made my mark in a man's world.

I'm just sending a message to women that you can be anything you want to be.

Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams.

We should let women make their own decisions.

My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants.

We need to respect choices that women make.

As a confirmed individualist I certainly do not wish to underrate the influence of the individual, for the masses do not lead the individual; rather, in the individual is vested the capacity to lead the masses.

I reject the idea that when young women make choices with which we disagree, they are acting without autonomy.

I enjoy making the decisions.

While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.

Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

You have to do what you want to do, and I genuinely believe that if you start interacting in the world that way that there is a respect in that.

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.