Diane Ackerman Quotes

I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women who would argue over what kind of pants you were wearing or the color of your nail polish.

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.

The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.

Life on the planet is born of woman.

I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be.

I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.

High heels empower women in a way.

Women have not yet realized the cowardice that resides, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow.

I'm a girl's girl. I'm a woman's woman. I'm a cool girl.

A free race cannot be born of slave mothers. A woman enchained cannot choose but give a measure of that bondage to her sons and daughters. No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

Sisterhood is important because we are all we have to stand on. We have to stand near and by each other, pray for one another, and share the joys and the difficulties that women face in the world today. If we don't talk about it among ourselves, then we are made silent by the patriarchy, and that serves us no purpose.

There is a part of 'Wonder Woman' inside me and inside every woman, kind of that secret self that women share. We are all caretakers, giving birth, caring for our children and companions and loved ones.

As women, we have super powers. We are sisters. We are healers. We are mothers. We are goddess warriors.

The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.

I don't understand women who don't love women. I love women. I just think they are magnificent creatures.

There's a way to express femininity and independence and strength without going for hanging fruit.

Females should stand by each other, especially in an industry which seems to try so hard to pin us up against each other and make us fight. It's not about that for me. I refuse to be sucked into a twisted world of insecurity and lose who I am.

I think, deep down, women know that we are the saviors of our families, right?

I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.

I feel like most movies about female friends derive their conflict from an extension of the high school movie rivalries, or there's some petty grievance: a competition over a guy or a wedding date or something. And I don't relate to any of that.

Lauryn Hill inspired me so much. She had that whole women's empowerment vibe in all of her songs back when that didn't even exist.

I don't think 'Motherhood' is a map for women. I would never say that it's a template for every woman in response to her biology.

I want women on-screen that we all either want to be, or we know, or we recognize.