Brooke Smith Quotes

I feel like I'm the voice for my generation, especially for women.

The school made it very clear that women were entitled to positions of authority. That sense of entitlement allowed us to feel that we have a natural place in leadership in the world. That gave me a mental and emotional confidence.

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

I want to be a voice for women, but I've also got two boys at home and my role is important for them, too. Men need to hear a woman who is prepared and understanding.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.

If, in the coming thousand years, a feminine culture shall really supplement the masculine, then this will be exactly in the measure in which women have the courage to create and to act as most feminists now do not even dare think.

Root for the girls who wear dresses and are intellectually very strong.

It's important to make women feel confident, because I think they are more important than men.

I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.

Congresswomen are congresswomen - you are, sorry. And for women who want to be congressmen, there's a screw loose in their head. I'm proud of being a woman. I think 'congresswoman' is the appropriate term, and 'Madame chair' is just fine with me.

The voice of women has a special role and a special soul force in the struggle for a nonviolent world.

The word's out: I'm a woman, and I'm going to have trouble backing off on that. I am what I am. I'll go out and talk to people about what's happening to their families, and when I do that, I'm a mother. I'm a grandmother.

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.

Women have to be able to look at themselves in the mirror as men do and say, “I see a presidential candidate!”

According to my mother, my wife and my daughter, this world would be a lot better off with women running things.

No nation can ever be worthy of its existence that cannot take its women along with the men. No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men. There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women

We don't need to be men in skirts to have a role in politics. Women can be leaders by being sensitive women.

I am a woman. I definitely have a woman's perspective. I'm also a mother, and I think, because of that, I feel responsible to try and make a difference.

I think being a young woman is a strength.

I love being a female. I love being the boss.

The women I play don't sit in the corner eating lettuce leaves and talking about what designer shoes they have.

As members of society, we should always be pushing our girls to strive to be the best and to speak up and out about issues we see.

Some fathers raise their daughters to be seen and not heard; they raise their daughters not to speak out. Raise strong women!

My parents are both massive feminists and always led me to believe that I could dream big and do anything that I wanted in my life, almost to a delusional degree.