Marianne Williamson Quotes

People are afraid to be themselves because people are afraid to be recorded. Everything is being recorded, and everyone is so sensitive. You say something; a section of people will be offended. It's so annoying; you got to be completely censored.

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

I'm a mom, but I don't always want to look just like that.

I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens.

Every woman has the right to be beautiful.

I don't care about controversies. I am a young woman with an opinion about certain things. I can't be diplomatic. I am a feminist, and as long as I can be the voice of hundreds of girls out there, I will speak my mind. I don't care what other people think.

I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.

I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old.

People are so scared to really voice who they are. They want to be politically correct. Just scared to see what other people's perceptions are.

From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

If you are a woman and an actor, it does not mean that you have to contain or limit yourself to just being that.

Being in the public eye makes you frightened to talk openly about things - which is precisely why you should. You can really make a difference and open up subjects that are taboo.

I believe that women have the right to wear any attire that suits their comfort. And above all, every individual has the right to wear an attire of their choice, and no one can deny that.

I'm not going to hold my tongue because society wouldn't want me to say something.

However much people want to politicize every movement of a controversial woman in life or on the screen, we just have to keep being personal and truthful, or we will explode.

It is astonishing that in a country so devoted to the individual, so many people should be afraid to speak.

We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.

I cannot refrain from saying that women must come to recognize there is some function of womanhood other than being a child-bearing machine.

We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'

There are different qualities of silence. There's the silence that sustains us, as women, that nourishes us, the silence where I believe our true voice, our authentic voice, dwells. But there's also the silence that censors us, that tells us what we have to say does not want to be heard, should not be heard, has no value. And that if we speak, it will be at our own peril. This kind of silence is deadly. This kind of silence is deadening to who we are as women. And when a woman is silenced, the world is silenced. When a woman speaks, there is an opening.

What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.

The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.

Partly, I'm worried that no one is saying anything because they are afraid of being seen as politically correct.

To me the desire to create and to have control over your own life, irrespective of the politics of the time or social structures, has always been a part of the human spirit. What I did not fully realize was that work could open the doors to my heart.

I believe in women; and in their right to their own best possibilities in every department of life. I believe that the methods ofdress practiced among women are a marked hindrance to the realization of these possibilities, and should be scorned or persuaded out of society.