Faye Dunaway Quotes

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

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off the edge. Some of us have ventured out nevertheless, and so far we have not fallen off. It is my faith, my feminist faith, that we will not.

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.

Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History

During the era when women were burning their bras - which, by the way, they never actually did - but when women were first becoming liberated, I was 23. And I met a woman who asked, 'Don't you feel bad because you're sort of acting like the stupid airhead blonde?' And I totally surprised myself. I said, 'Liberation can also come from the inside.'

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.

I like playing strong female parts.

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.

We came from an era when women normally did not rock.

Right now the topic of female empowerment is at the forefront of conversation and it's important we take advantage of the trend while there is added pressure to adjust long-standing beliefs, prejudices, and cultural discrimination.

I say I'm a rebel. I'm continually fighting against [sexism]. I don't take parts because they're for the sexy girl. I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.

I am a woman above everything else.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

I am crushing so hard on Amy Schumer. Women like her who have chosen to stand up for themselves and face the bullies are being so embraced.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

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.

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

Why are we not valuing the word 'feminism' when there is so much work to be done in terms of empowerment and emancipation of women everywhere?

I don't do what I do to try and break a glass ceiling.

To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman has been my mission.

We're feminists. We're doing something that only guys are expected to do and doin' it right! At our concerts we'll do one hard-core rap song and then do one where we'll be real sexy.