Jenni Rivera Quotes

'Malandrinas' means 'bad girls,' but not bad in a negative way. I wrote it in homage to my female fans.

I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later.

I want to be the Mexican-American Oprah Winfrey. That's a small goal, isn't it? That's something that I want. And of course not just to host, I want to OWN it! So, that's in my future.

When somebody elses happiness makes you happy, it means you are a person with a big heart.

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

I wasn't going out easy. I was the gangsta bitch frrom Long Beach. The Rivera Rebel who never lost a fight.

When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry.

Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.

I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.

I am the same as the public as my fans.

We never told on each other. That was an unspoken rule.

With or without my man, I was going to make them proud to have me as a mother. And I was going to make my parents proud, once again, to have me as a daughter.

My mother never let on that anything was wrong. She kept her chin up and acted as if everything were just fine. So we did too.

Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do.

I am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other women.

Thank you for accepting me as I am, with my virtues and defects.

You can always trust me. I will never judge you.

I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself.

It doesn't bother me at all that some people think I am too outspoken.

The number of times I have fallen down is the number of times I have gotten up.

My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.

If he hits me, I'm going to hit him back.

My ass is big because a lot of people have to kiss it.

Being a mother by far is my favorite and most important career.

In my family they always called me "unbreakable", and I never wanted to shatter this image of myself. On the outside I kept my head up and maintained my tough girl image. However inside I was dying.