Petra Collins Quotes

I've discovered on this journey in the entertainment industry that, especially as a girl, woman... it's really important to try to create your own opportunities.

Doing 'All Good Things' really felt like I was acting for myself rather than anyone else. It gave me a freedom I'd never had before, or knew I had, to do whatever I want to, and to argue my opinions and not just feel like the cute girl on set or the girl in a boy's club. I figured out how I could be both. And it's been different ever since.

We're not trying to take back our country. We are our country.

Disability should not be considered a hindrance to achieving one's goals.

I don't know what it's like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy. I don't speak for such huge and diverse groups. What I've tried to do, what I've been fortunate to do, is to live my live and create my life as I've wanted to create it.

It's not our disabilities, it's our abilities that count.

The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.

Openness and participation are antidotes to surveillance and control.

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

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.

While out on the perimeter, women discovered the freedom of badlands. They were curiously free to invent, without having to liberate themselves from the forms and rewards of the cultural norm.

We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!

The roots of Silicon Valley are full of stories of immigrants and minority groups who experienced bigotry and made it anyway. Why should women be any different?

I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.

I hope that I inspire women to believe in themselves, no matter where they come from; no matter what education they have; what particular background they originate from.

Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!

I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.

Part of this whole Sleater-Kinney 2.0 is breaking the rules. We wanted to tell our story... we feel like we need to stand up for ourselves.

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don't say, 'Oh, you're in a wheelchair.'

I hope that when people with Down's see me, they will be inspired to do more than they think they can.