29 of the Best Empowering Quotes For Women: How P!NK is Building Confidence for Women Everywhere Through Her Music and Ideology

By Eric Openshaw on April 2, 2019

This article about empowering quotes for women from P!NK is presented by her upcoming concert at Vivint Smart Home Arena on April 3rd, 2019.

Alecia Beth Moore is an American singer/songwriter better known as P!NK. After starting her career as part of the girl-band “Choice”, P!NK hit pay dirt in 2000 with the album, “Can’t Take Me Home.” After going double-platinum with two Top 10 singles, her second album racked up sales of over 13 million and included three number ones.

P!NK has always been a tough woman who fights for the empowerment of women and encouraging confidence and pride in who you are.

1. Mountains

“You can’t move mountains by whispering at them.” -P!NK

2. Aggressive

“The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I’m just a sweet girl.” – P!NK

3. Feeling Strong

“I like feeling strong. It keeps my mental floor higher.” – P!NK

4. Poetic or Blunt

“Sometimes I wish I was poetic and subtle. I write very bold and blunt and tell it like it is.” – P!NK

5. Art

“I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.” – P!NK

6. Her Experience

“I write from my life, my experience. I’m selfish that way.” – P!NK

7. The Underdog

“I’ve always felt like the underdog, and I’m comfortable with that label.” – P!NK

8. No Love Songs

“I decided at 15 that I didn’t want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don’t mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I’ve had, things I’ve been through, and even the stuff I’m embarrassed about.” – P!NK

9. Consumerism

“Consumerism diverts us from thinking about women’s rights, it stops us from thinking about Iraq, it stops us from thinking about what’s going on in Africa – it stops us from thinking in general.” – P!NK

10. Her Dad’s Advice

“My dad raised me with some good advice: ‘Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you’ll never have enemies, because people will always know where you’re coming from.'” – P!NK

11. Beautiful

“Beautiful has never been my goal.” – P!NK

12. Love and Fear

“For me, there is only love and fear.” – P!NK

13. Proving People Wrong

“I’ve always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines because, in music, there really is no barrier.” – P!NK

14. Seld Doubt

“Every album, I’m worried that I’m a dork and a fraud – ‘What if I can’t sing anymore?’ Then I stop thinking and start playing guitar, and I realize that it’s okay to suck, and move forward.” – P!NK

15. Charting Your Own Course

“Today, charting your own course isn’t just more necessary than ever before. It’s also much easier – and much more fun.” – P!NK

16. Respect

“Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.” – P!NK

17. Honesty

“The only problems I’ve ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.” – P!NK

18. Love or Hate

“I have no idea why anyone likes me! I am very polarizing. It’s either absolutely love or absolutely can’t-be-around-for-more-than-three-seconds.” – P!NK

19. Heroes

“There’s always a backlash when you challenge people’s convictions and their heroes.” – P!NK

20. When Not to Talk

“I’ve learned I’m not lying by not saying anything, so I just don’t say it anymore.” – P!NK

21. American

“I live in America. I love being an American.” – P!NK

22. I Sing

“I sing my life. It’s like I’m having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they’re there for that – whether it’s to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.”

23. Her Behavior

“My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.” – P!NK

24. Who P!NK is

“Pink is what I do. Alecia is who I am. The world has taken Pink and turned it into this thing, a brand – a snarl.” – P!NK

25. Price Tag

‘Sexy’ doesn’t have to come with the price tag of being dumb.

26. Small and Sweet

“People are always so surprised when they meet me. Firstly, that I’m ‘so tiny’, and secondly that I’m ‘so sweet’. They seem surprised that they’re not scared of me.” – P!NK

27. Rudeness

“I have never really encountered anybody that was rude to me. Well, not to my face anyway.” – P!NK

28. Extreme

“I was extreme… from skateboarder to hip-hopper to rave child to lead singer of a rock band – I did it all, and all at the same time.” – P!NK