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I love to ride horses. I've ridden since I was a kid so I got to do some riding, which was a lot of fun. But most of the stunts were left to the girls. It's the girls rescuing the guys mostly. So it was kind of really kick-ass, girl power. It was wonderful to watch. It was particularly sexy. They would come in and just slay in these choreographed pentagram of death fight scenes. It was pretty impressive.
Sep 24, 2025
I'm one of five girls in the whole entire world that can honestly say I'm a Spice Girl. I'm still proud of that, and what we've achieved as a group - spreading the word of positivity and girl power. I'm really proud to call myself that.
My problem is I can think whatever I think—girl power, solidarity, Gloria Steinem rah rah rah — but I still feel the way I feel. Which is jealous. And pissy about little things.
I've been working with a lot of girl power organizations this year. I have so many incredible women in my life that I'm supported by, and I wanted to shine a light on them and encourage other women and girls to do the same. We're often encouraged by the media to compete with one another, to bring each other down, or to feel small when seeing the success of someone else, and I just wanted to flip that script and challenge us to do the opposite. Instead, feel inspired and ignited by someone else's success.
Never let anyone try and make you into something that you're not. Remember what it is that you want, and always stay strong in that.
Power to me is having the ability to make a change in a positive way.
You can't be afraid of what people are going to say, because you're never going to make everyone happy.
No matter what you look like or think you look like, you're special and loved and perfect just the way you are.
I am not afraid of much. I kill all the spiders in my house, and I'm planning to go skydiving. I am into girl power, and I'm very self-sufficient.
You need to find the power within to make [things] happen for yourself. When you realize this, you are unstoppable.
My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.
Don't be afraid to speak up for yourself. Keep fighting for your dreams!
[You] have what it takes to be a victorious, independent, fearless woman.
I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.
Power is not given to you. You have to take it.
You are more powerful than you think.
If I help one person out with getting through the struggles that I've had, then I've done my job on this planet and this life.
A girl does not need anyone who does not need her.
Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.
Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you're not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy. That sexy stuff just happened to be part of our wardrobe, and its fun. Not all of our wardrobe is like that, but it is part of the performance and the show. It takes a woman who knows herself to be able to work an outfit like that.
Girl power is about loving yourself and having confidence and strength from within, so even if you’re not wearing a sexy outfit, you feel sexy.
It's possible to climb to the top without stomping on other people.
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint
I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.
Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion
A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.
I wouldn’t call myself a feminist. I try to live by the girl-power motto. It’s about believing in yourself, no matter how bad a day you’re having, and lending your support to other women. It’s empowering to have that camaraderie with other women.
The power you have is to be the best version of yourself you can be, so you can create a better world.
The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.
Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.
Whatever you do, be different. If you're different, you will stand out.
A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.
I believe that all women are pretty without makeup- but with the right makeup can be pretty powerful.
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
A power that can't be used for good? Like a bad girl power? I wouldn't mind being clairvoyant, but I wouldn't want it if I couldn't use it for good. Peace and love, man. Peace and love.
I did everything he did but backwards & in high heels.
One thing that keeps me awake at night: I am a mother and, I have to confess with great delight, a grandmother of five girls, which gives me great hope for the future - girl power! Can I say that without alienating all of the men?
Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.
I'm an all powerful amazon warrior, not just some sniveling girl.
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.
I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
We can do no great things-only small things with great love.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.
It was the Spice Girls who messed it all up. And obviously, the appropriating of the phrase "girl power", which at that point overrode any notion of feminism, and which was a phrase that meant absolutely nothing apart from being friends with your girlfriends.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
People will never forget how you made them feel.