Rico Nasty Quotes

Girls, we have to go 10 times harder than guys. We are still expected to give you the bars, give you the look, give you the routine. This is me - I wanna be a rapper, this is it.

I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.

It's nice to get my teeth into something that isn't a stereotypical female role.

I believe in female rap.

I know exactly what that's all about being in a male dominated sport. Sometimes it just takes one person to step out, to be a pioneer, a trailblazer, really.

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.

I would say there is no Prada woman. I'm interested in women in general. I don't have any kind of preference.

If you're a woman, just make a freaking good movie. I don't believe in the women who say, 'It's too hard, I'm getting shot down.'

Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.

Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.

I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.

I think the whole concept that women aren't funny is dead. It's over; it's done.

Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians.

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.

It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

I see myself as an Islamic feminist because I do not find sustenance in a female identity that has no spiritual roots. So I have been enjoying myself watching interviewers get all confused as I send out mixed signals and shatter their stereotypes. On the one hand, I do wear a scarf, but I am not submissive or quiet -- just the opposite.

Women like me aren't supposed to run for office.

Women don't necessarily understand that it is possible to have the same level of ambition as men - they allow themselves to be held back by the obstacles rather than empowered by the possibilities.

It's not often you get female characters who don't fit into a box.

During the era when women were burning their bras - which, by the way, they never actually did - but when women were first becoming liberated, I was 23. And I met a woman who asked, 'Don't you feel bad because you're sort of acting like the stupid airhead blonde?' And I totally surprised myself. I said, 'Liberation can also come from the inside.'

Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist shake up.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it's liberating, and it's empowering when you feel like, 'Well, I can do that, too.'