Rita Moreno

The reason there weren’t any, I am surmising, is that a lot of Latin kids, Latino kids, in those days didn’t have the money to take those kind of classes.

They made me use an accent, which I wasn’t thrilled about because a lot of us, obviously, don’t have them.

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

Apparently, I think it’s Columbia Records has Betty Wand’s name on all of the stuff that I did, too, and that’s made me very, very unhappy.

Then there’s the story of ill-fated love. It’s universal.

I love the people here. I love New York.

The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.

You’’re a feminist if you go to a Jay-Z and Beyoncé concert, and you’’re NOT like, ‘mmm, I feel like Beyoncé should be making 23 percent less money than Jay-Z.’

I am not a woman, so I don’t have bad days.

Nobody says hey, men should not drink. It’s all about women must dress differently , women must walk differently, women must drink differently. Why are we not able to hold men to account for this behavior?

I wish that girls could fail as bad as men do and be okay.

And to all of the little girls who are watching this, never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.

For me, as a feminist, I would say it should be up to the woman to decide if she wants to be a mom … If she wants to go out and work, have a career other than being a mom, then she should be able to do that as well.

Until we’re in those rooms as equally as men are, it can’t shift.

It’s work having a vagina. Guys don’t think that it’s work but it is. You think it shows up like that to the event? It doesn’t. Every night it’s like getting it ready for its first Quinceanera, believe me.

I’m not a feminist. If men were going through the things women are going through today, I would be fighting for them with just as much passion. I believe in equality.

My first instinct is great pride for all of us as women who are finding our voices.

I feel like it’s by design that I’m raising boys, like there’s a reason. I don’t like my sons watching Snow White. It’s totally misogynistic

I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist. I think that would be, maybe, going too far.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said ‘For a man, you’re kind of ignorant.

We are a gorgeous, infinite circle of women all shades, all styles, in all the ways we were made. Inside of us everything blooms.