Rihanna

Have you watched Snow White lately? I get real funky about the classics; I don’t like (my sons) watching it. It’s totally sexist, misogynistic – she’s cleaning for seven dwarfs. There’s nothing wrong with a woman who chooses to stay at home with her family, it’s a hard-ass job, but it’s the way it’s spoken about.

Do not live someone else’s life and someone else’s idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that’s inside of you.

I am not a woman, so I don’t have bad days.

There’s a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that’s been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.

It is very important that women of this country be made aware of the dangers of osteoporosis in the sense that it is a silent and invisible disease with no symptoms whatsoever.

All men should be feminists. If men care about women’s rights, the world will be a better place.

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

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said ‘For a man, you’re kind of ignorant.

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

No country can ever truly flourish if it stifles the potential of its women and deprives itself of the contributions of half its citizens.

A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It’s equality, it’s fairness, and I think it’s a great thing to be a part of.

I advise young women: Negotiate hard and know your worth.

Women are not a special interest group. They are half of this country and they are perfectly capable of making their own choices about their health.

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