Gina Torres Quotes

The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

Let us first obtain ourselves…Give us ourselves and all that belongs to us will follow.

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.'

Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.'

What I am trying to do is create a space for people to explore what they want to be, as opposed to fit into a label that they have been given.

If girls hear that they can create and fulfill their own ideas of who they might be, those extraneous expectations can become less restricting and a lot more healthy.

I'm an independent woman and a feminist.

A woman needn't be dragged down by her functions.

If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It’s about freedom.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

I was not raised to be someone's wife. I was raised so that things should be evenly distributed.

After feminism, I suddenly realised: not everyone has to live the same way. Imagine that!

I still consider myself a feminist.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.

I am a feminist and I have no problems being called that.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.