Rickie Lee Jones Quotes

I have long ties to the women's community.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

I'm setting up a fund to empower girls and women to speak up - on all issues, not just sexual harassment. For me, it's about inspiring women to come together.

Whitney Cummings is a very dear friend of mine, and she is a huge advocate for women.

I'm so proud that women are playing a great role in these demonstrations, in this so-called revolution. Because our women showed that women play a great role in everyday life.

It is important that we women use our position as a platform to influence for good.

The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.

Women need to support women.

We women have to stick together.

I've been called the Women's Auxiliary of the Brat Pack.

I think I've really learned how important it is to empower women.

I love collaborating with strong women.

It's time for women to make their voices heard. Their silence on the subject of war and peace is deafening.

There are so many women out there relying on me to represent them.

I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.

I respect women that have a voice and use it for a proper reason.

I hope the women of the United States will awaken to the full sense of the influence which they can wield if they accept the responsibility which all power implies.

Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That's what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength?

Women are builders of civil society. We are the ones who are going to build it. You know why? We have no choice. Either you shut up, and you are humiliated, or you do what I'm doing. You scream.

The #MeToo and Time's Up movements have been a roar on behalf of women, and the voices are genuinely empowered now. I really feel that.

I am a fighter. I appeal to all the women in the world. Look around, speak up.

I am honoured to have the support of so many strong and determined women.