Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes

I'm about women's empowerment. I'm about agency. I'm about being in control of your narrative and your body.

Janelle Monae

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• After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Change
  • Marriage

• I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Women
  • Today

• I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to work with, but there's something about Quentin, and one of my all-time favorite films is 'Kill Bill.' Something along those lines would be such a blast.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

  

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
  • Women
  • Faith
  • Bible

• There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Freedom
  • Control
  • Kindness

• There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Fashion
  • Designer
  • Overpacker

• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Control
  • Passion
  • Anger

• I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• I don't think that women being seen as inferior is a prejudice based on male hatred of women. When you look at history, it's a prejudice based on simple fact.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • History
  • Simple

• The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • Women
  • Scared
  • Insight

• My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Women
  • Charity
  • Refugee

• I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Women
  • Society
  • Respond

• I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Women
  • Me
  • Wish

• I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Believe
  • Men

• The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They're going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Body

• I have so much fun because I love to meet the women who wear my shoes and meet the clients. That, to me, is the best part - getting to know the faces of the people who actually wear my shoes and getting to have a conversation with them.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • Women
  • Fun

• Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• Many friends of mine told me that normally only guys like a kung fu movie and the girls would be turned off - they want to see a love story. But Ip Man is a family man, so the women see this and go: 'I want my husband to be like this man. He'll be a scholar, he'll be fighting, he'll care for the family.' So we had a bigger audience.

  

  Donnie Yen
  • Women
  • Family
  • Friends

• You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Music
  • Mind
  • You

• The attacks on the World Trade Center and the current economic recession, which is particularly powerful in New York City, have put a number of building plans on hold for the time being.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • Time
  • World
  • City

• I'm about women's empowerment. I'm about agency. I'm about being in control of your narrative and your body.

  

  Janelle Monae
  • Women
  • Control