Reba McEntire

Besides, I’m a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

Be different, stand out, and work your butt off.

For no. 1, it’s great writing, super writing. The second thing is that it’s great chemistry with all the actors. We just all got along from the very start. Very get-go, we all got along. We just – it was just like we were all meant to be there together.

You know, I get a lot of people pitching songs to me.

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.

So, I think it has to do with the product and what you take to the public. If they like it, they’re going to come see you, and if they don’t, and if you’re kind of getting out of the trendy line of things, then they won’t come see you.

It’s pretty clear that if men were having babies we’d have different policies.

The difference between a broken community and a thriving one is the presence of women who are valued.

It’s misogynistic in nature to try and control a woman’s sexual presentation of self. I consider this an issue that is bigger than one film.

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

Being a strong woman is very important to me. But doing it all on my own is not.

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

You’’re a feminist if you go to a Jay-Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’’re NOT like, ‘mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should be making 23 percent less money than Jay-Z.’

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

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

You can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom’. If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean that you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

A woman who is convinced that she deserves to accept only the best challenges herself to give the best. Then she is living phenomenally.

[My father] always reminded us that it was important to stand up for your rights, and regardless of who you are and where you come from, to hold your head up high with dignity and respect.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

Women feel more guilt than men, not because of some weird chromosomal issue but because they have a history of being blamed for other people’s behavior. You get hit, you must have annoyed someone; you get raped, you must have excited someone; your kid is a junkie, you must have brought them up wrong.