354 Quotes by Beyoncé Knowles

Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife ~spoken to Oprah in an interview

I'm over being a pop star. I don't wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I've accomplished a lot. I feel like I'm highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don't get the same opportunities as men do, or money for that matter. Because lets face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define our values and to define what's sexy and what's feminine and that's bullshit. At the end of the day, it's not about equal rights, it's about how we think. We have to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves.

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like Destiny's Child's, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line.

I embrace mistakes, they make you who you are.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.

I can not imagine my life if I didn't have a music program in my school.

I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life. My way of dealing with frustration is to shut down and to think and speak logically.