Roger Waters Quotes

I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.

I don't like it necessarily when other people speak for me.

It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to do - that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

I learned early on - I can go to a shoot, and they will put anything they want to put on me, and I'll look like an idiot because I didn't say I don't like it. It's OK to have an opinion.

Drag was always looked at as a stepchild, and I wasn't willing to sit at the kid's table anymore so I took what's mine. You can't depend on other people to give you what you want; you have to take it.

It's become easier to speak up for myself.

Feel empowered. And if you start to do it, if you start to feel your voice heard, you will never go back.

You're going to have to speak up for yourself - and I learned that after always being, for lack of a better word, crapped on.

Never let anyone silence your voice.

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. I mean, some people do live in fear. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

I feel like I have to have a voice.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

I'm damn successful but I got here by not taking crap. I still don't take crap, so if anybody needs a champion, let it be me.

You can bullied as a young model, but there was a point where I found my voice, effectively.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.

I'm going to stand up for what I need to do, not what everybody else wants me to do.

Girls need to learn that they're allowed to say no and to speak up.

Years and years of therapy taught me to speak up because speaking up is what gets things done and gets your story and your voice heard.

You have to have your own back.

Sometimes you have to stand up for yourself.

We've shown people that you don't have to be taken for granted. You don't have to settle for less!

Be not scared to use your voice.