Female Legacy Quotes

Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.

When you write, it’s like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring them unity. Your fingers have still not perfected the task. Some of the braids are long, others are short. Some are thick, others are thin. Some are heavy. Others are light. Like the diverse women of your family. Those whose fables and metaphors, whose similes and soliloquies, whose diction and je ne sais quoi daily slip into your survival soup, by way of their fingers.

I come from a family of well-endowed booty women.

I never thought a basketball shoe would be named after a woman, let alone me.

I talk a lot about the men in my family because my mother died when I was little, and my grandmother died when my aunts were little, so we didn't have those kinds of heads of household. But all the members of our household who were female were sort of living as equal and as wise as the male figures in our family.

All the women in my family are extremely strong.

I know that there are a lot of great women that have gone before me, so it's important to acknowledge them.

I can't disappear. I come from a family of beautiful women, strong women - and 'strong' defined by being themselves.

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

I know, in so many cases, a lot of the women who came up through the singer-songwriter, Lilith Fair era, the earlier Lilith Fair era, did say that we were influences on them.