167 Quotes by Jada Pinkett Smith

I think, as women, we have to stop being scared to be the women we want to be and we have to raise our daughters to be the women they want to be – not the women we think they should be.

Don’t take your health for granted. Don’t take your body for granted. Do something today that communicates to your body that you desire to care for it. Tomorrow is not promised.

Don’t trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked.

I don’t really cook much. I’m more of a baker. My favorite things to bake that everybody loves, and I can only keep in the house for about ten minutes, are 7-Up cake and Pineapple Upside-Down cake.

When I believe in something, I’m very passionate. I don’t take ‘no’ for an answer.

Worry about being respected, never worry about being liked because that’s the trap.

I’m not here to – as a parent, I believe we are specifically here to help our children mature in the way that they can take on their own lives. I’m not here to live their lives for them. That’s not my job.

When I’m tired, I rest. I say, ‘I can’t be a superwoman today.’

Will and I are yin and yang. He’s all sky, vast and bright and soaring, and I’m all earth. I’m here to ground him, and he’s here to help me fly.