Quotes About Confidence

For the socially timid, the kitchen is the place to be. At least, it is a place to start.

I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.

I would never be popular. I didn't want to be; I liked being shy. I'd never be the smartest or the hottest or the happiest. By eighth grade you start to figure out your limits.

Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself.

We should teach our girls that snapping is ok, instead of waiting for someone else to break them.

I swallowed the fear. It's always there– fear– and if you don't stay on top of it, you'll drown. I swallowed again and stood tall, shoulders broad, arms loose. I was balanced, ready to move. My body said, "Yeah, you're bigger and stronger, but if you touch this, I will hurt you.

It made me strong.I took a step back, near my whole self in the mirror.I pushed back my shoulders and raised my chin, my back straight as an arrow.

Bologna girl, that's me.

They mean hot like 'I'm too good for you I got my own money don't be frontin' me.' You're more like 'Be my boyfriend I'll make you cookies come meet my dad ' know what I mean

My good sense bitch-slapped my estrogen and told her to get a grip.

You look like yourself. Nobody else. Trust me, that's a good thing.

Light up the stars in your brain, electrify your body, buckle on your smile, and everybody will love you again.

I've got a cake rising," Eliza said. "I'm not leaving that for any man

Never underestimate dainty little ladies.

It takes more to scare me now.

face my truth This is not a resting bitch face This is a touch-me-and-die face

I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through. --- I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.

I am strong enough to pick up a stick of butter. I am strong enough to peel off the paper wrapper, drop a hunk in the pan, and watchlistensmell it melt.

I have no idea how much I weigh. This scares me almost to death, but I'm working on it. I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

I felt so powerful that I wanted to go to Costco and wheel out a freezer on a dolly while waving around an old Safeway receipt, just because I knew I could. It's easy. I'm supposed to be so harmless and weak and afraid that no one pays attention. But those weeks of dye stripping and returning to my natural state created a phenomenon in which the world had literally become mine for the taking.

Youth does not inspire confidence, in life or in stories

If one plays on fear, takes away any remotely complicated ideas, and offers people a sense of confidence and right, one's followers will beat to death any enemy they are pointed at.

David Maurer's nonfiction work The Big Con.

Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.