Emma Watson's 10 Most Empowering Quotes
"Don't let anyone tell you what you can or cannot do, or cannot achieve. Do not allow it."
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By Harper’s Bazaar Singapore Team - published
From: Harper's BAZAAR UK
"It sounds like a ridiculous thing to say, but I'm very interested in truth, in finding ways to be messy and unsure and flawed and incredible and great and my fullest self, all wrapped into one." —in an interview with the Evening Standard, November 2015
Emma Watson's 10 Most Empowering Quotes
"I want to be a woman of the Renaissance. I want to paint and write. And above all, I want to continue to act. I simply want to do everything." —in an interview with Vogue Italia, November 2015
Emma Watson's 10 Most Empowering Quotes
"If you stand for equality, then you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you, you're a feminist." — in a live Facebook web chat about the #HeForShe campaign, March 2015
Emma Watson's 10 Most Empowering Quotes
"Femininity needs to be embraced wherever it is, whether it be in a man or a woman or a nonconforming gender person." — in a live Facebook web chat about the #HeForShe campaign, March 2015
Emma Watson's 10 Most Empowering Quotes
"I have experienced sexism in that I have been directed by male directors 17 times and only twice by women. Of the producers I've worked with, 13 have been male and only one has been a woman. But I am lucky: I have always insisted on being treated equally and have generally won that equality." —in an interview with The Guardian, September 2015
Emma Watson's 10 Most Empowering Quotes
"Women share this planet fifty-fifty and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped." —in her #HeForShe speech at the World Economic Forum, January 2015
Emma Watson's 10 Most Empowering Quotes
"Don't let anyone tell you what you can or cannot do, or cannot achieve. Do not allow it." — in a live Facebook web chat about the #HeForShe campaign, March 2015
Emma Watson's 10 Most Empowering Quotes
"At 25, for the first time in my life, I feel like I have a sense of self that I'm comfortable with. I actually do have things that I want to say and I want to be my most authentic self." — in an interview with the Evening Standard, November 2015
Emma Watson's 10 Most Empowering Quotes
"Women feel like we need permission ... We need to lead and change that." — in a live Facebook web chat about the #HeForShe campaign, March 2015
Emma Watson's 10 Most Empowering Quotes
"Become an engineer." —on Twitter, in response to a young woman who asked, "My dad says I can't be an engineer because it's a 'man's profession', what do I do to change that?", January 2015
Emma Watson's 10 Most Empowering Quotes