Cate Blanchett Quotes

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

I'm not here to judge, I'm here to empower women to figure out what's best for them.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.

Don't let anyone try to tell you who you are. Define yourself.

All I have to do is what's right for me.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

I don't want to feel shamed into making a choice about my physical appearance or my body... or even about the choices I make about my life. I want to be feel empowered and inspired because they feel good to me.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

I love myself the way I am, but people will always message me about other people with vitiligo who cover their skin. 'Winnie Harlow, you need to tell them that they need to love themselves the way they are and stop covering their skin!' No! If that's what makes them comfortable and what makes them happy, let them be.

We try to teach women how to be strong, how to believe in themselves, how to make themselves happy, as opposed to pleasing someone else first.

You own your identity; it is important to feel that way.

Keeping your sense of self is important.

I think the best thing I could ever teach my daughter is that she's not an object or a trophy, and that she can trust in herself and believe in herself and that you are not your things, and you are not your job.

But I've never felt objectified. Nothing you see me do is an accident.

Just because I haven't yet had any project surgery, I'm not going to knock it, because I think women have the right to do whatever they want to their bodies that make them feel good about themselves.

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.

What's important is self-appreciation.

It's the love you have for yourself that's most important.

Don't let other people tell you what you want.

I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.

A woman is more than the sum of her parts.