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.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There are so many more women and men who deserve opportunities. People of color. Period.
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I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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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.
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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.
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The more insight I get, the more scared I get of women in general.
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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.
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I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
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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.
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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.
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Hugs are helpful, especially when women step out into a mostly male political world. Emotional support, at critical moments, enables women to stay in the race.
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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Sometimes I catch myself if I'm shopping, and I'm like, 'I want to hide my thighs and my arms.' And then I kind of take a minute where I'm like, 'No, that's not really being kind to yourself. Maybe learn to embrace things that we're taught as women not to like.'
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The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's bare blade without shedding our own blood.
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The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.
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Many adults feel that every children's book has to teach them something.... My theory is a children's book... can be just for fun.
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I'm about women's empowerment. I'm about agency. I'm about being in control of your narrative and your body.
