Barbi Benton Quotes

It is undeniable that a woman's ability to stretch and pursue her total competence outside the home and get paid what she's worth for it makes for happier and more fulfilled women.

But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.

Marriage is a linchpin in many women's lives, but many other things can create a satisfying life. I adore my career. It stretches every physical, emotional, and intellectual muscle I have.

I will always have a career. I believe in working. I don't believe that taking care of your house and children is enough for a woman. You don't feel complete.

In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism and self-expression - there's also higher reported job satisfaction.

Beguiling voices in the world cry out for 'alternative lifestyles' for women. They maintain that some women are better suited for careers than for marriage and motherhood.

Mary Tyler Moore was a working woman whose story lines were not always about dating and men. They were about work friendships and relationships, which is what I feel my adult life has mostly been about.

We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: "I want something more than my husband and my children and my home ...." And work can now be seen as the key to the problem that has no name.

I've never wanted to be a lady who lunches - I've always wanted to be a woman who works.

I think a woman can come into her power at any age.

Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.

I want my girls to grow up learning that it is important their mum worked like a man.

'DWTS' really made me feel confident, and has given me a lot of just self-worth within myself and realizing that I don't need a man to be successful and that I could do a lot on my own, and have my own voice and have my own opinion.

I have a sense of mission in a way. I've always worked on being free, as a woman and as an artist.

If girls hear that they can create and fulfill their own ideas of who they might be, those extraneous expectations can become less restricting and a lot more healthy.

Real power is being able to take care of yourself. My job is to make art, but I aspire to do more than that.

Women are super-dynamic. I can be whatever I want to be. I can have interests in so many different kinds of things.

As a working woman, thinking back to someone I'd want to see on TV growing up are women who can make something of themselves and their future.

Jobs give people a sense of independence, security and self-confidence.

I've always loved what I do and I've always done what I wanted to do... in this business you have got to be yourself.

My life and career is defined by the constant pursuit of new forms of culture and self-expression.

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.