--- title: Shonda Rhimes Talks Raising Her Daughters description: Shonda Rhimes is proud to be raising three “stubborn” daughters. canonical: https://time.com/4455912/shonda-rhimes-daughters-good-housekeeping/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-17T14:33:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:10.670Z og:title: Shonda Rhimes on Raising Her Daughters: ‘I Don’t Want to Have a Nice Girl’ og:description: 'No one will ever take advantage of them' og:url: https://time.com/4455912/shonda-rhimes-daughters-good-housekeeping/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltabf23eb27bec1978/6988a2aa0a4a2248e59caf1b/shonda-rhimes-good-housekeeping.jpg?branch=production&width=986&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 986 og:image:height: 555 og:image:alt: EMILY's List Breaking Through 2016 at the Democratic National Convention og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Shonda Rhimes on Raising Her Daughters: ‘I Don’t Want to Have a Nice Girl’ twitter:description: 'No one will ever take advantage of them' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltabf23eb27bec1978/6988a2aa0a4a2248e59caf1b/shonda-rhimes-good-housekeeping.jpg?branch=production&width=986&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Shonda Rhimes on Raising Confident Daughters: ‘I Don’t Want to Have a Nice Girl’ > Sponsored content. 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Paul Zimmerman/Getty Images by [Natalie Stone/People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Natalie Stone/People Contributor Aug 17, 2016 2:33 PM UTC Shonda Rhimes is proud to be raising three “stubborn” daughters. “They couldn’t be more different from one another, but they’re all stubborn — and I mean that in the best way,” the _Grey’s Anatomy_ and _Scandal_ creator, and executive producer of _How to Get Away with Murder_ and _The Catch_, told [_Good Housekeeping_](http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/entertainment/a39926/shonda-rhimes-interview/) of raising her three girls. “No one will ever take advantage of them,” she explains. “They will always go their own way because they have decided they’re going to.” The 46-year-old single parent says that as a child, she too shared similar traits to her daughters. “That was definitely like me as a kid,” she admits. Rhimes, who served as the guest editor for _Good Housekeeping_‘s first ever [Awesome Women Awards](http://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/inspirational-stories/g3781/awesome-women-awards-2016/) issue, explains of raising stubborn children in the September 2016 publication, “It’s so much better than having a nice, pliable child who can be easily manipulated.” “I don’t want to have a nice girl,” she believes. “I’d rather have a stubborn girl.” _This_ [_article_](http://celebritybabies.people.com/2016/08/17/shonda-rhimes-raising-stubborn-daughters-good-housekeeping/) _originally appeared on_ [_People_](http://www.people.com/people/)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4455912/shonda-rhimes-daughters-good-housekeeping/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4455912/shonda-rhimes-daughters-good-housekeeping/"},"headline":"Shonda Rhimes on Raising Confident Daughters: ‘I Don’t Want to Have a Nice Girl’","datePublished":"2016-08-17T14:33:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:10.670Z","description":"'No one will ever take advantage of them'","url":"https://time.com/4455912/shonda-rhimes-daughters-good-housekeeping/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltabf23eb27bec1978/6988a2aa0a4a2248e59caf1b/shonda-rhimes-good-housekeeping.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Natalie Stone/People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltabf23eb27bec1978/6988a2aa0a4a2248e59caf1b/shonda-rhimes-good-housekeeping.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"EMILY's List Breaking Through 2016 at the Democratic National Convention","caption":"EMILY's List Breaking Through 2016 at the Democratic National Convention Shonda Rhimes","creditText":"Paul Zimmerman/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4455912/shonda-rhimes-daughters-good-housekeeping/","name":"Shonda Rhimes on Raising Confident Daughters: ‘I Don’t Want to Have a Nice Girl’"}}]}] ```