Quotes About Authenticity

A memoir is never right. Nor is the memoirist.

Get out of the way of your story.

You think of the courage it takes to be anyone at all and anyone, especially, on the page.

We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.

God hasn't called you to walk in someone else's shoes (purpose). He wants you to walk in the shoes that fit you, for which He made you. You aren't going to succeed walking in another woman's shoes.

I may be justifying my pockets of chaos, but I will always choose people over perfection and the heart over task and tidy.

Happiness isn't about smiling all the time, loving all the time, or getting everything you want. It's about living and experiencing everything this life has to offer you, truly and authentically.

Just remember that this relationship is based on mutual trust and respect, so never reveal your true self.

What I want to know it whether we're supposed to change or just accept who we are?

Beware of all writers who substitute initials for their give names -

With the spread of conformity and image-driven superficiality, the allure of an individuated woman in full possession of herself and her powers will prove irresistible. We were born for plenitude and inner fulfillment.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

It's better to be HATED for who you ARE then Loved for who you ARE NOT!

I would rather have a go at something I feel, and be hurt, than always be protecting myself—that way one does not really live.

I care about who you are, who you have been, who you want to be. I open myself to you to listen and learn about you. I cherish you, not just my fantasy of who you are, not just who I need you to be, but who you really are...

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, 'The voice follows... the voice follows everything about you... who you are.'

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity, she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to be themselves.

It is not possible to preserve one's identity by adjusting for any length of time to a frame of reference that is in itself destructive to it. It is very hard indeed for a human being to sustain such an 'inner' split - conforming outwardly to one reality, while trying to maintain inwardly the value it denies.

I learned that a stiff test for friendship is: "Would she be pleasant to have t.b. with?" Unfortunately, too many people, when you try separating them from their material possessions and any and all activity, turn out to be like cheap golf balls. You unwind and unwind and unwind but you never get to the pure rubber core because there isn't any.

The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it.

Who're you supposed to be, Creflo Dollar's Mini-Me?

You may want to. Ask yourself, do you want Spring because you love her or because of her potential to breed?