Mika Brzezinski Quotes

As women, we need to remember: don't be a doormat!

If my accomplishments frighten someone, it's nothing to do with me - that's to do with them. But the men who are in my life see me as a person - as a woman - not as a character I've played.

It's absolutely wrong that I don't want guys to challenge me. And the people who say that aren't in the room.

Everyday I find myself reminding women around me to know their value. I also have to remind myself.

There's no single person on this planet that's worth more than the other. Know your worth. Be confident in yourself.

If a boy messes up, you walk away. If a boy isn't treating you right, you walk away. It sounds simpler than it is, but you can't allow yourself to be disrespected. You have to be a strong girl.

You have to know your value, demand to be respected, speak your mind, and dare to ask for what you want. I struggle with every single one of these.

Nobody walks over me, ever, and no-one will walk over me, ever.

Let a man then know his worth and keep things under his feet.

I'm not ashamed of who I am.

I respect everybody, but at the same time, I carry myself with an aura that demands respect, too.

You cannot let people come up in your face and stop you.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

Men secretly respect a woman who is strong, has confidence and has dreams of her own. There's nothing more attractive to a man than a woman who has dignity and pride in who she is.

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.

Believe me, when people say, 'We want to pay you X-million to do this movie,' I won't be the girl who hangs back saying, 'Oh, I really don't deserve it,' I'll be, 'Un-hunh, hand it right over.'

You can't spend your life apologizing.

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.

I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

Women need to learn to value themselves. But that has to be inculcated in men as much as women.

To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

I have two younger sisters and I'm such an advocate of owning who you are as a person. Don't be ashamed or intimidated. Never feel like you are not amazing.

I'm determined to raise a strong girl.

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.