Jada Pinkett Smith Quotes

Any discussion involving the ownership of women's bodies is one to be had! We must manifest the right!

You can seek advice, learn about the options and make choices that are right for you. Knowledge is power.

We need to respect choices that women make.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

I'm in control of the positions that I allow myself to be in.

More power to the people who get to choose their roles. I don't.

At what point is a person old enough to say, 'I own my body, and I get to do what I want with it'?

It's 2014, and the fact that anybody has to fight for the right to do what they want to do with their body in a safe and responsible way is infuriating.

I can control my destiny; I control my life.

Most of society thinks that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future, and of course it does if you live there...but what we really have to remind ourselves is that decision is the ultimate power.

It's my body, and it should be my choice, and the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting.

You gain or lose power according to the choices that you make.

There’s a redemptive power that making a choice has rather than feeling like you’re an effect to all the things that are happening. Make a choice. Just decide what it’s gonna be, who you’re gonna be, how you are going to do it. Just decide. And from that point, the universe will get out of your way.

The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.

She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she's going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those, decisions herself.

I have a brain, I have a uterus, and they both work.

When we speak of choice, what we mean is the ability to exercise control over ourselves and our environment. In order to choose, we must first perceive that control is possible.

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

Choice is our point of power.

Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.