Abbey Lincoln Quotes

Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

I definitely think women are running it right now. We are not afraid to speak our minds. It's exciting because that's what I stand for, for people to be irreverent and to be themselves.

I am trying to be a girl who is real and has an opinion. Might say stupid things but not scared of men, and for me that's important.

I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.

You don't have to be in the power business to be a powerful woman.

To transform the world women need to strive for authenticity.

I feel like I'm one of the biggest feminists in the world because I tell women not to be scared of anything.

Women and girls can do whatever they want. There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish.

I am a woman, hear me roar," I said. Gosh, what prompted that?" Amelia asked, and I jumped

I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think you have to prepare yourself that not everyone in this world has the same personality... The one thing I've chosen to be great at in my life is singing - so why not be proud that I'm great at it?

If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.

You know, she was a girl. She was a female. And she wasn't like, trying to compete in a man's world and she wasn't trying to be in a man's position, she was just who she was. And I think that was like, a good thing.

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.

I don't care about controversies. I am a young woman with an opinion about certain things. I can't be diplomatic. I am a feminist, and as long as I can be the voice of hundreds of girls out there, I will speak my mind. I don't care what other people think.

People can say I am a terrible role model because I swear all the time or that I fight people. Look, I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. I want them to know that it is O.K. to be ambitious. I want them to know that it is O.K. to say whatever it is that is on their mind.

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act.

I want to encourage kids to speak up, to tell their stories. That is the only way people will know what we have to go through. Believe in yourself. Someone once told me being different isn't bad - different is just different!

I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.

I think, as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise our daughters to be the women they want to be - not the women we think they should be.

I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That's my mission.

I respect women that have a voice and use it for a proper reason.