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Parenting & Family Quote by Foxy Brown

"I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way"

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Foxy Brown frames ambition as inheritance, not attitude. Calling herself “a child of the Women’s Movement” is a claim of lineage: her confidence didn’t appear out of nowhere, and it isn’t a quirky personal trait to be admired or dismissed. It’s political weather. That move matters in hip-hop, a space that has often treated women’s participation as conditional - allowed, but policed. By rooting her self-belief in a broader movement, she refuses the industry’s favorite narrative for successful women: the lone exception who “earned” her seat by being tougher, sexier, or quieter than everyone else.

The repetition of “I” is doing double duty. It sounds like straightforward self-assertion, but it’s also a defense against an environment that constantly questions women’s authority: I believed, I could, women didn’t have to. Her confidence reads less like arrogance than like preemptive self-protection, a way to speak over the cultural static that tells women to shrink.

There’s subtext in the word “limited.” In rap, limits on women aren’t just about opportunity; they’re about acceptable roles. You can be the muse, the girlfriend, the vixen, the cautionary tale. Foxy’s point is that those are choices, not cages. Coming from an artist whose image was relentlessly scrutinized, the line quietly separates agency from objectification: if she’s loud, sexual, or dominant, it’s not proof she’s being used - it can be proof she’s deciding.

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Brown, Foxy. (n.d.). I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-a-child-of-the-womens-movement-i-always-50323/

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Brown, Foxy. "I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-a-child-of-the-womens-movement-i-always-50323/.

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"I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-a-child-of-the-womens-movement-i-always-50323/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Foxy Brown

Foxy Brown (born September 6, 1978) is a Musician from USA.

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