Lynda Carter Quotes

I'm never going to be the woman behind the man.

If it wasn't for the women's movement, I wouldn't be where I am today.

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.

You're able to make a real difference. If a woman's able to step away financially, she's able to begin to do all the other work.

I'm a bit of a feminist and very "female empowerment," and women should be able to do what they please.

We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'

I look for roles that show women as independent, informed, and free to make their own decisions.

A lot of women want to be married and have kids one day, but before we get there, it's so important to establish who you are, find yourself, and live in that for a minute before you become somebody's wife and mother.

The script changed so much over seven months and just had loads and loads of re-writes. I tried to tailor things to what I was interested in, like the relationship with the dad changed quite a lot because I thought one of the things when you're a young guy one of your biggest fears is this irrational fear of walking in your dad's footsteps and living the same life as him. I thought, even if your dad's a good guy, you just want to assert your independence on everything and it causes these irrational sort of rages.

Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.

We all have this moment, when your folks first see you as someone not growing up to be them.

The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutionized.

You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today.

I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated.

In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind's foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man's master is the--public.

We all are doing the best we can. I would like to say that I'm a walking poster board for feminism and women's liberation, but there are things that I do in my life that deeply, deeply fall short of being a statement for being a strong woman. I am flawed as much as anyone else.

I am not just my hair; I proved to myself that I am a cast of characters. I'm feeling freer to venture out of the 'look' people know me for.

Friday's a free day. A woman's day.

She's been everybody else's girl, maybe one day she'll be her own.

Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.

I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn't be back. And it was common knowledge among all the people there that when you graduate from high school here, you go to college or go get a job or something and do it on your own.

... the absolute freedom of woman will be the dawn of the day of man's regeneration. In raising her he will elevate himself.

From the first moment a woman dared to speak that hope - dared to believe that the American Dream was meant for her too - ordinary women have taken on extraordinary odds to give their daughters the chance for something else; for a life more equal, more free, and filled with more opportunity than they ever had. In so many ways we have succeeded, but in so many areas we have much work left to do.

In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.

The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.