The `Run the World (Girls)` singer is an advocate of female empowerment and doesn`t understand women who are not the same. She told Style magazine: "When women don`t have friends, I`m afraid of them. I grew up around women, I believe that we can teach each other so much. I`m always thinking about how unselfish we are and the things we need to hear and how much pressure there is being a woman. "I try to write songs that will bring out the best in all of us and keep us close together. Put a ring on it? That`s a nice little way to hint something without being the psycho that`s like `Marry Me`. Sometimes we gain, five, 10 pounds, sometimes more. Whatever. Sometimes you just have to embrace it and find the beauty in it. So `Bootylicious`." While Beyonce, 29, is hugely successful today she believes she had to work "probably harder than any artist" to get where she is now. She explained: "I had to grind it out, probably more than any artist I know. On the road with Destiny`s Child we went everywhere by coach. We were sharing rooms and fighting over phones, even with multiple number one singles. We worked so hard. Sixteen hour days. Everything that I`ve done, I`ve worked so hard for, until my toes are bleeding."