Reba McEntire

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And what we had an idea for, they didn’t like. And what they had an idea for, we didn’t like. So, we went home.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn’t mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn’t know about why it happened.

I’ve got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody’s looking.

I was singing a lot of waltzes. And I was with Jerry Kennedy, my producer, and he was playing me some songs, and he said, hey, I want to play you this song that I’m going to get Jackie Ward to record.

I believe in gender equality. Being a feminist is for both women and men. I am a feminist.

I never identified with the feminist movement in a strong way. I just kind of lived it. I didn’t politicize it. I didn’t follow any written rules to what it meant to be a feminist. I had my own sense of what was right and wrong.

I wish that girls could fail as bad as men do and be okay.

I feel like it’s by design that I’m raising boys, like there’s a reason. I don’t like my sons watching Snow White. It’s totally misogynistic

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

[on her mother] she’s a very smart, independent woman who was kind of coming into her own in the feminist movement of the 70s and 80s

It’s work having a vagina. Guys don’t think that it’s work but it is. You think it shows up like that to the event? It doesn’t. Every night it’s like getting it ready for its first Quinceanera, believe me.

Sometimes, I want some damn makeup, and I’m going to wear it! Guess what — if I want to wear red lipstick and put eyelashes on, I can do whatever I f**king want. I am the creator of my own destiny,

A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink.

I love to challenge the status quo. That’s been my mission from day one as an actress and an early feminist wanting equality and wanting to push the limits of what’s possible.

I didn’t know what I wanted to do, but I always knew the woman I wanted to be.

To all my goddesses in the world spreading love and light, power and radiance. Never stop being brilliant!!

Only a woman can breathe under the water of life defying gravity and staying zen while doing it.

I think it’s a wonderful time for a woman.

The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.