Quotes About Confidence

A woman who acts as if she knows what she's doing gets what she wants.

He was a broad-faced man who looked good in hats. Who

A certain kind of seriousness in a girl could cancel out looks

It isn't until an adult criticizes the picture and makes derogatory comments … that children lose their confidence and stop drawing. If young people spent as much time drawing as they do learning [the] alphabet … they would all make good pictures and maybe never even need to draw a straight line.

particular kind of proud when they walk into a bar if they think about Bullock and all he knew about altering perception to improve reality.

Folks that don't understand that our safety is born of their not seeing who we are and what we are, as long as we see ourselves clearly and understand that their chatter about us is fully ignorant and not to be considered.

I was trying to prove to them and to myself that I was still who I had always been. I was beautiful, if fat. I was smart, if loud. I was good, if ruined.

Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.

Ruth did not believe in makeup. She thought it demeaned women.

Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me.

Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon.

Too much respect for people who are not respectful to you is a sure sign of insecurity.

Aside from the fact that they say it's unhealthy, my fat ain't never been no trouble. Mens always have loved me. My kids ain't never complained. Plus they's fat.

You seem so clear about who you are. So certain that you are just right as you are, that for all your intelligence and maybe in spite of it, you never seem to need a second opinion.

Hope is a woman who has lost her fear.

Why you like this, huh? Why you always think you have to do things your own way? I ast your mama bout it one time, while you was in jail. What she say? ast Sofia. She say you think your way as good as anybody else's. Plus, it yours. Sofia laugh.

She look me over from head to foot. Then she cackle. Sound like a death rattle. You sure is ugly, she say, like she ain't believed it.

Now I understand that all great teachers love us. This is essentially what makes them great. I also understand that it is this love that never dies, and that, having once experienced it, we have the confidence always exhibited by well-loved humans, to continue extending this same love.

the most common way people give up there power is by thinking they don't have any

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking that they don't have any.

Para mí es un misterio que a una mujer tenga que importarle ni un comino lo que la gente pueda pensar de ella.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any

Don't let them run over you, Nettie say. You got to let them know who got the upper hand.

I look over at him too. For such a little man, he all puff up. Look like all he can do to stay in his chair.