Rachel Simmons Quotes

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

I would love to have a child. It would be great for me and such a positive message for all the girls out there who don't want to rush their life or their life has taken different a direction, like me who's put their career first.

Girls throughout the world should be able to make decisions about their own lives. If they have the opportunity to attend school, they will become independent and strong.

Don't let 'having it all' be defined by someone else.

I think - and even with the Live Chin Up movement - it's about women doing things for themselves. Being empowered. Doing things that make you happy. I believe in that philosophy.

Girls shouldn't throw away their lives. They have the opportunity to not have 25 children - to make something of themselves, and use their brains and creativity. I'm just thrilled about that.

Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.

P is positive emotion, E is engagement, R is relationships, M is meaning and A is accomplishment. Those are the five elements of what free people chose to do. Pretty much everything else is in service of one of or more of these goals. That's the human dashboard.

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!

I think certainly that looking for love is a big part of the show, but I think that if - there's one thing that is different about 'Sex and the City' and the message that I think has resonated with viewers, especially women. It's that you don't need to get married. You don't really need that love to be fulfilled.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

My dream had always just been to do my work well, fall in love and build a life for myself.

I have no advice for anyone on how to live.

I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

Education liberates a woman.

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.

I was lucky enough to have it all. To be successful in business, to have children, to raise them on my own, and to travel and live my life. It was a lot of work, but it's a privilege to have been able to do it.

Root for the girls who wear dresses and are intellectually very strong.

I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what education they have; what particular background they originate from.

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.

I'm for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

I wasn't ever interested in marrying someone else's career or bank account.

For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one thing - some kind of argument about bourbon whiskey - shortly after the birth of their third child, and then went back to school to get herself a teaching certificate.