Quotes About Self-worth

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

I would recommend these books: 'Dream Big, Little One,' by Vashti Harrison, 'I Am Enough,' by Grace Byers, 'Hair Like Mine,' by LaTashia M. Perry, 'Hair Love,' by Natasha Anastasia Tarpley... and of course, my book!

I am building an archive. I don't need for anyone to tell me that I matter. I am just going to record it for myself.

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.' It's a very common thing.

I don't give a damn about my record.

I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.

To me not one thing is better than anything else, I'm completely proud of everything I've written and recorded.

I started singing by default, I think. Because there was a guy in the group that thought the group wasn't going to ever be anything. And I was getting ready to record, and I'd never recorded my voice. It was always other people that I featured because I thought they did a much better job.

It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.

I don't have audition horror stories, I just have situations in which I was made to feel so small. That's the worst of all, because it's really hard to recover from.

Being abandoned by my mother gives me a sense of insecurity that I will never recover from. I have to try and recreate that balance by trying to create a sense of self-worth. And yes, being on stage is a part of that.

When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.

I have a life that I enjoy; I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.

People need to work on what self-love is and redefining self-love... it comes from within: who you are and how you carry yourself in this world.

Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.

It's hard to always be reduced to the way you look or your sex appeal or what that is.

What's wrong with trying hard and showing up and being good at your job? We really need to look at ourselves and say we need to reevaluate this. We need to reevaluate that women who ask for a pay raise or ask for a promotion - it's actually an okay thing. It's okay to be ambitious; it's okay to be over-prepared.

People always have to have a reference - I think I'll always be in the shadow of my parents.

I will no longer be referred to as Miss Steinem of Ms. magazine.

Don't think of your gender as a handicap.

Usually when I am in a movie that is about to come out, if people don't love it, that is fine - I can handle it.

God hadn't made me handsome, but he'd given me something, I always felt: funny bones.

I was always handsome under all the fat.

You've got to hang on to who you are, what you are. Don't let anyone take it from you.