Taylor Swift Quotes

My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.

I'm the only girl songwriter that fights for a lot of things. I fight for songwriting fees, which record labels want you to shut up about.

My mom is such a strong, independent, strong-willed woman, and she always taught me to accept my worth for how I viewed myself and female empowerment, and it's okay to be independent and also need someone at the same time. I kinda get to be both.

Companies like Spotify, the new Apple service, and all the others are really going to have to pay artists more. And I think it's a matter of time; I think a lot of these companies and the individuals that are involved in them realize that as well. They know that artists are not getting what they should be getting.

My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'

If we can believe in our own value, then we won't try to denigrate and diss and just roast women all the time.

I run a business. People want to work for less money, I pay them less money. ... Women shouldn’t be so grateful. Know what you’re worth. Walk away.

The music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment. And I’m not willing to contribute my life’s work to an experiment that I don’t feel fairly compensates the writers, producers, artists, and creators of this music. And I just don’t agree with perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free.

Women who set a low value of themselves make life hard for all women.

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.

I never considered myself less worthy than a man in football. Never. Never, never, never.

And she's feeling like her worth is between her legs.

No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.

I believe 2016 is the Year of the Woman and now more than ever, it is our time to accomplish anything and everything.

I think that once an artist has proven herself and you sell lots of records, you should be compensated.

I know it's hard for women to tap into that feeling of self-worth. We need to get the message out that you are valued, you are a goddess and don't forget that.

I would have girls regard themselves not as adjectives but as nouns.

By empowering a woman, we empower a child. By educating a girl child, we make it possible for her to grow up to become an empowered woman.

When I say women are the agents of change, I really should say women and girls.

When I was a teenager in the '80s, I was the only girl in the guitar shop. Now if you walk into a music store, it's mostly teenage girls. It's great! It's an expansion of possibilities for young women, finding a way to tools even if they aren't directly handed those tools by adults.

Until as women we all say, No! We are not going to starve ourselves, nothing is going to change. We're our own worse enemies sometimes but I still blame men.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable.

You know, my father was a great encouragement for me because he spoke out for women's rights, he spoke out for girl's education. And at that time I said that why should I wait for someone else, why should I be looking to the government, to the army that they would help us? Why don't I raise my voice, why don't we speak up for our rights?