Quotes About Confidence

All of which is to say: You do not need a permission slip from the principal's office to live a creative life. Or if you do worry that you need a permission slip—THERE, I just gave it to you. I

It was during the war, too, that I learned how to be comfortable sitting alone in a bar or restaurant. For many women, this is a strangely difficult thing to do, but eventually I mastered it. (The trick is to bring a book or newspaper, to ask for the best table nearest to the window, and to order your drink just as soon as you sit down.) Once I got the hang of it, I found that eating alone by the window in a quiet restaurant is one of life's greatest secret pleasures.

Imagine his surprise to discover that the happiest, most confident woman he's ever met was actually - when you got her alone - a murky hole of bottomless grief.

The thing about fashion, my dears, is that you don't need to follow it, no matter what they say.

Let people have their opinions. More than that—let people be in love with their opinions, just as you and I are in love with ours. But never delude yourself into believing that you require someone else's blessing (or even their comprehension) in order to make your own creative work. And always remember that people's judgments about you are none of your business.

I have many times been approached by ideas that I know are not right for me, and I've politely said to them: "I'm honored by your visitation, but I'm not your girl.

I've watched far too many brilliant and gifted female creators say, "I am 99.8 percent qualified for this task, but until I master that last smidgen of ability, I will hold myself back, just to be on the safe side.

If the person of most consequence in the world has chosen to prefer us over all others, then we become accustomed to having what we wish for. Wasn't that the case with you, as well? How can we not feel that we are strong—people like you and me?

No more verbal tap-dancing for pennies of affirmation.

You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be." This

You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

never delude yourself into believing that you require someone else's blessing (or even their comprehension) in order to make your own creative work. And always remember that people's judgments about you are none of your business.

Maybe because they didn't worry too much about me, I didn't worry too much about me, either.

did believe that my behavior made me unusual—because it didn't seem to match the behavior of other women—but I didn't believe that it made me bad.

There is something magnificent about encouraging someone to step forward into his own self-respect

You're as good as any other living soul on this earth. Whether other people know that or not doesn't really matter as long as you do.

I am a whore, she said. And in addition to that, I am not a nice woman. But despite these facts, my word is gold.

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

But sometimes a man who is very good thinks, I am very bad, and it—destructs his life, everything. Because he does not believe that he has any right to do something, so he does less and less.

Better to embrace what lies within yourself than search for happiness in another,' she says. 'Don't be feared to discover your own power.

Your lesson in this lifetime is to find and trust your own precious voice.

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

You women are all the same. You worry about the wrinkles and the half stone and your boobs dropping, but you don't worry about the sparkle, and that's the best bit. You shouldn't let that go.

No, no, you needn't slap me; I am not at all hysterical.