I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe. – Charlize Theron
I grew up in South Africa and I would look at maps and we were at the bottom of the world. There was this whole thing up there. I was always reading encyclopedias about the world. So travel was something I was always attracted to. – Charlize Theron
You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebodys woman. – Charlize Theron
My mom has made it possible for me to be who I am. Our family is everything. Her greatest skill was encouraging me to find my own person and own independence. – Charlize Theron
No man who respects his mother or loves his sister, can speak disparagingly of any woman; however low she may seem to have sunk, she is still a woman. I want every man to remember this. Every woman is, or, at some time, has been a sister or daughter…. – Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin, Tried As By Fire; or, The True and the False,