Alanis Morissette Quotes

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

My mum is a rock star, and I idolise her. She was born in a conservative Muslim family, where the girls were not educated much, and she was required to wear a burkha. She felt repressed but dreamt of driving her own car, walking around in jeans and wearing sunglasses, and she did.

We really broke down some doors for women and for musicians in general. It was just go out and form a band and don't care what anyone thinks.

You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

Become goddesses of disobedience.

Every woman is a rebel.

While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.

Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want to do. Sometimes people call that rebellion, especially when you're a woman.

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

Girls see these defined roles they're supposed to follow in life, but when I was a young child, my parents told me I could be anything.

I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.

Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.

The great thing is that young talent isn't tied to a how-to model for starting a line; we get to find new ways to go about doing things. And don't let people tell you you can't. Go find a way to show that you can.

Women don't necessarily understand that it is possible to have the same level of ambition as men - they allow themselves to be held back by the obstacles rather than empowered by the possibilities.

I was my father's son and my mother's daughter. There was never any time when I felt I wasn't equally capable - whether it was being the only girl in the county who could hit a jump shot in basketball or playing first base in the baseball with the boys. I was always encouraged to do whatever I wanted to do.

Women feel empowered when they can do the things that are supposed to be only for men, you know? It breaks boundaries, it's liberating, and it's empowering when you feel like, 'Well, I can do that, too.'

Don't try to squeeze into a glass slipper. Instead, shatter the glass ceiling.

My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.

I hope that women know that they can and should try everything they're interested in - with the confidence that men have had.

I was brought up to be uncompromisingly bloody-minded by my mother. She equipped me, without knowing it, to be someone who is creative rather than an entertainer. Not many girls are brought up like that, to never rely on a man. To not be a housewife, not be a mother.

Despite the gender stereotypes in the '80s, my race-car-driving dad taught me that I could do whatever my brother could.

Young girls in Haryana should speak their mind and not be afraid to challenge the system.

You don't have to be just one thing. I think that applies to women in front of and behind the camera.