Quotes About Authenticity

I like to play different versions of myself, but I think that's kind of what everyone ultimately really does. There are a few people who are real chameleons and can sink into something and truly disappear ... but that is really not what I was meant to do.

You know something funny? I never came out. I feel like who I am spoke for itself, and I never wanted my sexuality to be my defining moment, and it isn't, so I feel like to me, the most important thing is that you're comfortable in your own skin.

If I wanted more commercial success, I guess I wish I would've been willing to play the game a little bit more and be a little bit more malleable in that way ... but I wasn't. I'm still not, really. It's just not who I am.

My whole point of view was, "I'm not gonna change. I'm not gonna get a nose job. I'm not going to pretend I'm the girl next door."

People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.

The F word turns me on, she whispered. The F word? Food He threw back his head and laughed. It rumbled up out of his chest and felt so good it startled him. For the first time in years,his laughter was spontaneous. It wasn`t tinged with bitterness and cynicism.

My goal now is to remember every place I've been, only do things I love, and not say yes when I don't mean it.

Let someone love you just as you are. As flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you might feel, as unaccomplished as you might think you are, let someone love you just as you are. And let that someone be YOU!

I'm not sure that some of the food purists are in touch with what really goes on in American households.

Nobody makes bouillabaisse from scratch. It's all a bunch of malarkey. Even the restaurants buy a commercial-grade product. I had a very famous chef tell me that.

You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better. —Anne Lamott

I am what you see. A woman. Flawed. Imperfect. You can't label me. I'm not any one thing. I'm many things and not all of them are good. The only certainty is that I love you.

Always be yourself unless you can be a Pirate, then always be a Pirate! Oooooohhhh! Aaaaarrrrggghhh! May the wind always be at your back!

Cookie cutter answers don't yield results. Be the true expression of yourself.

Talentless and incompetent as I am, there are two things I can do, and two things only: walk, with my own two feet; compose, composing my poems.

The thrill of telling her true feelings without considering good manners or the propriety of what she had to say was intoxicating.

Happy unions cannot take root under such a cloud of deception and artifice.

If you consider yourself a writer just write.

We all want to be someone else. And sometimes we succeed in convincing ourselves we can be. But it doesn't last, and our own true selves, broken and scarred, always win out in the end.

And I knew that who I was was not entirely dependent on my results. I am who I am because of who I am, not because of the commodities I generate or even the, you know, the sacred objects that I generate. I am not my results. I am my process.

If you ever forgot that money did not buy what mattered in life, New York pizza would remind you.

as if we both weren't crying, "this guy, he says, 'Be grateful for every scar life inflicts on you.' He says, 'Where we're unhurt is where we are false. Where we're wounded and healed is where our real self gets to show itself.' That's where you get to show who you are.

Be grateful for every scar life inflicts on you.' He says, 'Where we're unhurt is where we are false. Where we're wounded and healed is where our real self gets to show itself.' That's where you get to show who you are.

i meant what i said, and i said what i meant.