I was never against marriage per se. Before feminism, I didn't think you had any choice. In fact, for a long time I always assumed I would get married. I just didn't see any marriages I wanted to emulate, so I kept putting it off.
Seeing my mother become very strong and very independent had a huge impact on me.
We try to teach women how to be strong, how to believe in themselves, how to make themselves happy, as opposed to pleasing someone else first.
I do think better of womankind than to suppose they care whether Mister John Keats five feet high likes them or not.
A woman can do anything a man can do today and then some. She can even have a child without a man.
I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.
Oh, she takes care of herself. She can wait if she wants. She's ahead of her time. Oh, and she never gives out. And she never gives in. She just changes her mind.
We are the women men warned us about.
Be empowered as a female, as a woman. Don't apologize. Don't lose yourself in another person's life.
Growing up with the childhood that I had, I learned to never let a man make me feel helpless, and it also embedded a deep need in me to always stick up for women.
I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.
Every time you see a black romance, it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.
Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her.
There's a way to express femininity and independence and strength without going for hanging fruit.
I feel so blessed that I grew up in the age of the independent woman, the survivor. I had Destiny's Child telling me I didn't need a man to feel good about myself, and I want to carry on that message.
Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all, how often did a spinster of her shelf life get manhandled by an earl of Lord Maccon's peerage? She had better take advantage of the situation.
I love to see women just have on their own, and you watch the guys do it all the time. They go out on the road with each other - probably don't even like each other, but they going to get that money.
I am not a great believer in fairy tales. Every woman should fight hard for her own happy endings. Although occasionally it is nice to wake up as a princess.
I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
When I die, I will not be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health other than themselves.
I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.
Ordinarily, I develop videogames with female characters that aren't girlfriends, bimbos and sidekicks.
The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence.
A lot of females, they want to do the things that I do. Some females are so closed, but they want to be open. Some girls, they want to feel that power that I tell them that I have. I tell women that I have power over these men, that I use these men.
