Beyonce Knowles Feminist Quotations

The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.

I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.

Take all the rules away. How can we live if we don't change?

I'm a workaholic and I don't believe in 'no.' If I'm not sleeping, nobody's sleeping.

We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.

We have a lot of work to do, but we can get there if we work together. Women are more than 50 percent of the population and more than 50 percent of voters. We must demand that we all receive 100 percent of the opportunities.

The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive.

Perfection is a disease of a nation.

I am a woman and when I think, I must speak.

My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.

The reality is: sometimes you lose. And you're never too good to lose. You're never too big to lose. You're never too smart to lose. It happens.

I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'

I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic.