Quotes About Authenticity

When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.

The men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply into the darkness of their own imperfect existence.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

It would be futile to attempt to fit women into a masculine pattern of attitudes, skills and abilities . . .

Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.

One thing that annoys me is when you see women in these terrible and incredible situations with perfectly glossed lips. You're not going to look good in the apocalypse.

I'm not jealous in traditional ways - of boyfriends or babies or bank accounts - but I do covet other women's styles of being.

Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Being yourself doesn't attract women... being your most attractive self, does.

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?

I think that most of the women when they dress in the morning, they try to be someone elseToday there is too much retouching, and I don't like it...except on me.

I do less-fanciful reality. I celebrate the fat, the ugly, the women who can't get guys. I'm not trying to entertain you; I'm trying to make you passionate.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.

There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.

Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

It is the free spirited men and women that we most admire and often envy - those individuals who dare to be themselves.

Women should not allow themselves to be caught up in the hype that says performance, meaning the motions, is what matters.

I had no idea how to get guys to notice me. I still don't. Who cares?

To be honest, I know there are shows that have a lot of women and they say, 'Oh, we love each other!' but I don't know if I totally believe it.

They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.