Rihanna Quotes

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence.

… in an age when human rights are preached loudly from the rooftops, women had to be accepted as equals and allowed to think and act in their own interests and by their own efforts.

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.

We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.

According to my mother, my wife and my daughter, this world would be a lot better off with women running things.

Women today have the keys to the doors which have been barred against them and they will open them without asking consent.

Women will take their places beside men as partners, unafraid, useful, successful, and free

I tell you that men will always respect women when they compel it by their actions; and if women today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation the men would be compelled to grant it. The women of the country have the power in their hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

We're a much different generation now, so I think us girls can stand up for ourselves.

Despite the gender stereotypes in the '80s, my race-car-driving dad taught me that I could do whatever my brother could.

I'm an independent woman and a feminist.

My parents are both massive feminists and always led me to believe that I could dream big and do anything that I wanted in my life, almost to a delusional degree.

We gotta break these double-standards and get women to loosen up a bit. We gotta show them that we can do what we want to do how we want to do it. If someone doesn't like it, they can get to stepping.

The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive.

I'm strong. I'm outspoken. I feel like I'm equal to men. I can walk in the woods just as much and as far as a man can. Yet I'm still female. I'm very female.

A few British suffragettes everybody laughed at started the cause of equality between men and women.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

I am a woman of the 21st Century who is self-assured and speaks my mind.

I created the Women's Federation for World Peace in order to restore all that woman originally lost. You American women don't need a man in the position of grandfather, parents, husband, elder or younger brother. You only need the true Adam.

Why am I not feminist? Maybe because I come from a country where my mother ruled my life. I never felt in any way that I couldn't achieve what I want.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.