Petra Collins Quotes

I love every aspect of being a woman. I believe you should celebrate who you are.

I believe in celebrating the female figure and embracing what we've been given, not hiding that.

Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.

Even if I wouldn't wear something myself, I think I know how women feel, how women want to look. I can really relate to women, I get on very well with women... Some women don't. I want to empower women, make women feel the best version of themselves.

One thing that I can say is that I think it's important that there's some sort of celebration of beautiful women that isn't just exploitive.

I've always been about the power of a woman - accentuating the positive, deleting the negative, whether you're talking her body, her voice or her leadership.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

I feel like I'm beautiful, and every woman should feel like that.

I am happy that the young girls have a lot more choices these days and an opportunity to feel better about themselves.

Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us.

I like being a woman and having a womanly body.

Women of every age and size really just want to look sexy, while retaining their power and dignity.

Women are always beautiful.

My body is my best asset.

I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

I identify as a feminist. I have so many feminist beliefs - and then I'm so mean to myself about my body sometimes.

Women would all be better off if we realized we didn't have to choose between being an intelligent being and a sexual being.

There's nothing wrong with a woman being comfortable, confident.

I think Man Repeller is more about self-confidence than it is about a woman's relationship with a man.

I fell upon Jenny Saville's work and loved these great big pieces she was painting, celebrating all things flesh and woman, and with great big Simone Beauvoir quotations written in mirror writing so you had to look at yourself in the pictures to read them.

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.

I don't like to use the words 'real women,' honestly. I like to use the word 'woman.' And I say that because there are so many women out there who are naturally thin or are naturally curvy, and I think when we start putting a label on the type of woman, it gets misconstrued and starts to offend people.