1. “The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.” – Emma Watson2. “What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.” – Emma Watson3. “I’ve always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can’t do it any other way.” – Emma Watson4. “I’ve always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.” – Emma Watson5. “I don’t want other people to decide what I am. I want to decide that for myself.” – Emma Watson6. “If you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen.” – Emma Watson7. “Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who you want to be. Just encourage and include each other, don’t ostracize the gender in front of you.” – Emma Watson8. “I’m excited about the aging process. I’m more interested in women who aren’t perfect. They’re more compelling.” – Emma Watson9. “Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior.” – Emma Watson10. “If not me, who? If not now, when?” – Emma Watson11. “I like books that aren’t just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.” – Emma Watson12. “Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong…it is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideas.” – Emma Watson13. “Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like, I promise.” – Emma Watson14. “I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.” – Emma Watson15. “The less you reveal, the more people can wonder.” – Emma Watson16. “Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love.” – Emma Watson17. “Girls should never be afraid to be smart.” – Emma Watson18. “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 Watson19. “Wearing unbranded and cheap clothes doesn’t mean you’re poor. Remember: you have a family to feed. Not a community to impress.” – Emma Watson20. “I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.” – Emma Watson21. “When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams, because they didn’t want to appear muscle-y, when at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings, I decided that I was a feminist.” – Emma Watson22. “It’s not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve got to blast through and have faith.” – Emma Watson23. “There’s nothing interesting about looking perfect – you lose the point. You want what you’re wearing to say something about you, about who you are.” – Emma Watson24. “I’m a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love – and it being more important and special than anything and everything else.” – Emma Watson25. “It’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.” – Emma Watson26. “I don’t have perfect teeth. I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything.” – Emma Watson27. “I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn’t even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I’d found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.” – Emma Watson28. “We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop.” – Emma Watson29. “Men – I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue too.” – Emma Watson30. “It sounds like a cliché but I also learnt that you’re not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.” – Emma Watson31. “Follow your dreams.” – Emma Watson32. “If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by what we are, we can all be freer.” – Emma Watson33. “I think that it is very important if you know what you want, understand where you are heading towards, and try your best to get it. It is only when we use our hearts to do it, and fall in love with what we are doing, then can we really get real determination.” – Emma Watson34. “I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. I’m going to figure out what that is.” – Emma Watson35. “All I can do is follow my instincts, because I’ll never please everyone.” – Emma Watson36. “I’m a multidimensional person and that’s the freedom of fashion: that you’re able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.” – Emma Watson37. “If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can’t go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.” – Emma Watson38. “I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.” – Emma Watson39. “It’s amazing, people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it.” – Emma Watson40. “Books are a friend, books are an escape, books are a means to empowerment and books are a means to understanding yourself better and in a world around you. They are everything.” – Emma Watson41. “I’m willing to be seen. I’m willing to speak up. I’m willing to keep going. I’m willing to listen to what others have to say. I’m willing to go to bed each night at peace with myself. I’m willing to be my biggest bestest most powerful self.” – Emma Watson42. “I have realized that fighting for women’s rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. If there is one thing I know for certain, it is that this has to stop.” – Emma Watson43. “It is time that we all see gender as a spectrum instead of two sets of opposing ideals.” – Emma Watson44. “How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?” – Emma Watson45. “We are struggling for a uniting word, but the good news is that we have a uniting movement.” – Emma Watson46. “We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change.” – Emma Watson47. “We need more of those and if you still hate the word, it is not the word that is important. It’s the idea and the ambition behind it.” – Emma Watson48. “But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Women are choosing not to identify as feminists.” – Emma Watson49. “Don’t expect change to happen overnight, even if it’s not always visible it’s making more impact than you think.” – Emma Watson50. “If I hadn’t done ‘Harry Potter,’ I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I’d love to write.” – Emma Watson
