Quotes About Inspiration

I love the idea of ordinary women making extraordinary sacrifices.

The women of the French Resistance astounded me. Isabelle and Vianne [from The Nightingale] are my homage to those brave and forgotten women.

I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

I couldn't bare the idea of not being in regular communication with the audience I love - young women of color.

I love collaborating with strong women.

I'm representing women in a cool way

In some of the greatest recordings ever made, the performance is a part of the recording. Dylan's 'Rainy Day Women No. 12 and 35' is all about the esthetic of that performance. You can hear the room.

I'm very much interested in water and women in water. I've been photographing that for years although I didn't really know it at the time.

I went to all-girls' schools my whole life, so every model of leadership that I saw was a young girl or a woman, and so there was never any hesitation that women could lead. I know what I believe.

Women have come a long way, but it never fails to sadden me when I see younger women saying we have to overcome some obstacles.

Powerful women are the most interesting to play.

I was inspired by my life. I was inspired by the lives of many women doctors around me. So [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor ] is a mixture.

Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people - men and women, boys and girls - that make the world a special place

We all love to see women on top, and as the record shows, this next powerful woman is always on top. She does it all by living for love.

I've had a very supportive mother my entire life, so I've had strong women around me.

Hung-up women can't produce anything but mediocre art, and there ain't no room for mediocre art.

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

Cher is one of the most talented women I've ever met. She's got depth and emotion that haven't even been touched.

Women are the life force we look at for their beauty.

Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it.

Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.

I want to make clothes that make women feel beautiful.

I always advocate to young women that if we don't do this for ourselves, no one else is going to. We have to have a voice.