Sandra Bullock Quotes

Don't buy into the idea that women aren't strong enough to do anything they want on their own.

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.

Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.

Now, I love men, but I don't need to always be talking about them.

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.

For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole.

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'm Southern, but I need to be out making my own money, and impacting the world outside of my house.

I didn't want to make a man the No. 1 quest in my life.

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

Growing up, I dreamt of being economically independent because I always believed women should be so.

I believe that to get what you want as a woman is to use your brain, to have a job, and to not need someone or have to make decisions based on that.

For some women, a man is their whole meal. For me, life is a full meal and a man is just the hot sauce. If a man wants to be my whole meal, I say, 'That's nice, baby, but right now, I'm already full.

Be independent and don't try to think someone is going to save you or look to someone else to make you happy or look to someone else to complete you.

The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive.

I don't need a man. I'm really happy with myself and being with my friends.

I want to grow up as an actress and as a woman. Be independent.

I just don't want to be the little wife sitting at home. I want to do something worthwhile.

I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.

You have to make your own family, your own life.

Real feminism is spinsterhood. It's time America admitted that old maids give all women a good name.

Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power. And no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children or merely role models.

Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.

If you are sitting there waiting for someone to tell you how wonderful you are, you'll never get anything done. Women need to get over being women. I'm tired of that socialization of women; that we are always supposed to be sitting around pleasing somebody.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.