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Quotes About Confidence

Why should we girls not have the same privileges as men? Why do we police ourselves so stringently- whittling each other down with cutting remarks or holding ourselves back from greatness with a harness woven of fear and shame and longing? If we do not deem ourselves worthy first, how shall we ever ask for more?
~ Libba Bray
And if I talk too loud, its just that I'm trying to be heard.
~ Libba Bray
Oh, I didn't think it wise to hide it. Might not be able to find it again, I say, cheerily. It's sitting in plain view on your chair in the great hall. I do hope that was the best place for it.
~ Libba Bray
Careful there, Poet. I might start to believe you.
~ Libba Bray
Oh, honey, of course it hurts! Beauty is pain. But you don't want to look like a troll, do you?
~ Libba Bray
You know, people, just being beautiful isn't enough. Tiara looked confused. But... it always has been.
~ Libba Bray
I don't know how to accomplish such a look. I find myself with a new fear: that I shall never, ever be this lovely.
~ Libba Bray
Are you saying we're not ravish-worthy?
~ Libba Bray
Even Evie believed in something, that something being Evie a lot of the time.
~ Libba Bray
What I can't figure out is why you gotta make yourself crackers trying to be somebody you can't ever be instead of just letting yourself be the one and only Evie O'Neill.
~ Libba Bray
Stache off- there is nothing wrong with you,..that can't be fixed.
~ Libba Bray
my mom's al like sparkle sparkle sparkle and I'm all like sparkle yourself
~ Libba Bray
For the last time, I'm not a witch." Miss Lillian smiled and patted Theta's cheek. "Keep telling yourself that, dear.
~ Libba Bray
Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world?
~ Libba Bray
Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?" Nicole asked. "You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it's longer than three sentences or she's expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, 'Sorry for the rant' or 'That may be dumb, but that's what I think.
~ Libba Bray
It was not a curse to fully inhabit your body.
~ Libba Bray
Go on, darling," she said, batting her lashes. "Tell them the rest." "Riiiight," Sam said, suppressing a smirk.
~ Libba Bray
There is strength in acceptance
~ Libba Bray
she was sure that all those things she'd been taught abut feeling shame were wrong. It was not a curse to fully inhabit your body. You were only as cursed as you allowed yourself to be.
~ Libba Bray
Oh, Evie, you're too much,' people said, and it wasn't complementary. Yes, she was too much. She felt like too much inside all the time.
~ Libba Bray
It was not a curse to fully inhabit your body. You were only as cursed as you allowed yourself to be.
~ Libba Bray
Just as I'm certain Sam is still short. That part didn't require code. Take that, Sam.
~ Libba Bray
It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.
~ Lillian Hellman
None but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.
~ Lillian Smith