Emma Watson

"We need to live in a culture that values and respects and looks up to and idolizes women as much as men."

- Emma Watson

"It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals."

- Emma Watson

"Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be; embrace who you are."

- Emma Watson

"I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I don't have to apologize for anything. They know. There's no judgment in any way."

- Emma Watson

"I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don’t have to explain anything to them. I don’t have to apologize for anything. They know. There’s no judgment in any way."

- Emma Watson

"I found that ultimately if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in — even if it makes you vulnerable — amazing things can and will happen."

- Emma Watson

"It’s not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve got to blast through and have faith."

- Emma Watson

"If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen."

- Emma Watson

"We are struggling for a uniting word, but the good news is that we have a uniting movement."

- Emma Watson

"Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like."

- Emma Watson

"I'm reading so much and exposing myself to so many new ideas. It almost feels like the chemistry and the structure of my brain is changing so rapidly sometimes."

- Emma Watson

"I call it being self-partnered."

- Emma Watson

"Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love."

- Emma Watson

"Women feel like we need permission… We need to lead and change that."

- Emma Watson

"If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don’t, that’s wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don’t shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surface to what it is all really about, and I wish people wouldn’t get caught up in that. We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop. Women should feel free."

- Emma Watson

"I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes. There’s nothing wrong with being afraid. It’s not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it and sometimes you just have to blast through and have faith."

- Emma Watson

"How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?"

- Emma Watson

"Girls should never be afraid to be smart."

- Emma Watson

"I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about."

- Emma Watson