Beyonce Knowles Quotes

I want to play positive role models - women who mean something to other women.

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

I am inspired by many young women, not only in my industry but across others.

There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.

I have done and want to do roles that portray women in a strong light and inspire those women who think they are weak and helpless.

If Sakshi can be successful in her field, so can any other woman in our country.

During the Me Too breakthrough, I was hanging out with Emma Thompson and Emily Watson - two people I've looked up to my entire life. Talking to those women was so empowering.

I think Miss Universe is wonderful platform that we promote diversity and women empowerment. Why? Because we are achieved women who have stories, who have passions, who have careers.

I didn't have many role models or interesting women to get stirred up by until Yoko Ono came along.

The Amazons were notorious for their freedom: their sexual freedom, their freedom to hunt, to be outdoors, to go to war; and the Greeks, both men and women alike, were fascinated by these stories. Maybe it was a safe way to explore the idea of women who could be equals of men.

I went to all-girls' schools my whole life, so every model of leadership that I saw was a young girl or a woman, and so there was never any hesitation that women could lead. I know what I believe.

Simply stated, girls want role models and mentors.

TED Women isn't championing a cause; it's surfacing and sharing some of the most important ideas of our time. Our focus is on women as change agents, innovators and idea champions, and I think people will be both inspired and surprised by the program. We're exploring some fascinating territory!

The fire to inspire women and help them to blaze new paths fiercely burns inside of me.

I just think, as women, we have to give ourselves room to be individuals. So when a woman makes a decision for herself, we as women shouldn't set those hardcore boundaries for another woman. Just like we don't want men setting hardcore boundaries for us.

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

Women want to drive and they are taking actual steps towards that.

I'm attracted to strong female roles: females that aren't necessarily defined by their relationships with men.

I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models.

Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.