Veronica Franco Quotes

If nothing else, I want women to understand that they are powerful. If you look back at history, in almost every big moment, in every leap forward, you find ordinary women at the core. We have more ability to make changes in the world than we can imagine if we have the courage to try.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

Women, we are so strong! It took me so long to figure that out, but I realized just how strong a woman is.

The vote, I thought, means nothing to women, we should be armed.

I have an appreciation for strong women.

I am a fighter. I appeal to all the women in the world. Look around, speak up.

I don't consider myself a feminist, but boy, I won't lay down and play dead, ever.

Women can be strong, be smart, be sexy, be mothers, be wives, and be powerful. We don't need to compromise.

I may be a man, but I fight like a girl.

I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And so I go the whole way.

Women I know are smart, educated, intelligent, capable of doing anything that anybody else can do.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.

You know, there's nothing damnable about being a strong woman. The world needs strong women. There are a lot of strong women you do not see who are guiding, helping, mothering strong men. They want to remain unseen. It's kind of nice to be able to play a strong woman who is seen.

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

The women's movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we'd break open the doors that were closed to women, and with the other part, we'd walk through, transforming society for men and women. Turns out it was a lot easier to open the doors.

I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.

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

The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.

I long to speak out the intense inspiration that comes to me from the lives of strong women.

I am crushing so hard on Amy Schumer. Women like her who have chosen to stand up for themselves and face the bullies are being so embraced.

Women have begun to see that if I go through that doorway, I take everybody through it.

I don't think women hold all the answers, but with their skills, their strengths, we can get to a better place.

In the struggle against sexual discrimination on Wall Street, Pamela K. Martens is a latter-day Rosa Parks - a woman who, metaphorically speaking, refused to sit in the back of the bus.

Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance.

If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.