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Quotes About Authenticity

I try to avoid a specific image. I seek to play as many different women as I can to avoid having a label put on me.
~ Blythe Danner
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
~ Catherine Drinker Bowen
Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
~ Victoria Pratt
Trying to be a man is a waste of a woman?
~ Sarah Jessica Parker
If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks.
~ Amy Poehler
Life is easier when you are comfortable in your own skin.
~ Amy Dickinson
Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I'm as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.
~ Rachel Kushner
You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.
~ Jane Austen
Every man has two personalities; the one he reveals to women, the other to men.
~ Minna Antrim
I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.
~ Geezer Butler
Individuals who are uncomfortable with themselves sometimes emit vibes that make others uncomfortable.
~ Amy Dickinson
Ultimately, it's a really brave thing to do what makes you happy as opposed to what the norm, or the social norm is, and that's a very important thing for people to remember, especially young women.
~ Mia Wasikowska
The other thing is that women my age know that looks are only skin deep. They don't matter. What matters is who you are. Hopefully at the end of the day, you're a good person. That's what counts.
~ Marcia Hines
Some women think they need to be overpowering in order to be powerful. This is so far from the truth. What is so great about being a women is how powerful we are quite naturally.
~ Robi Ludwig
lots of women buy just as many wigs and makeup things as I do ... They just don't wear them all at the same time.
~ Dolly Parton
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONE... AND DEMONSTRATE TO EVERYONE... THAT THEIR FEAR IS GENUINE
~ Widad Akreyi
I don't have to go to a doctor and have my face changed. It terrifies me that women do that.
~ Elaine Stritch
To transform the world women need to strive for authenticity.
~ Christine Ebersole
I love women. I worship women. Don't want to be any other woman but myself.
~ Zoe Saldana
I think that women who know who they are are beautiful.
~ Demi Lovato
It's very often true that some women look better without makeup, but that's only during the day.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
You don't want to exaggerate any feature noticeably. I think only truly beautiful women can exaggerate and they usually don't have to.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
Our goal as women should be to discover who we are and not who we think we should be or who the world wants us to be. It's not our responsibility to be arm candy!
~ Elisabeth Rohm
I'm interested in helping women become courageous in being exactly who they are. Because the only way to change anything is to do it from your genuine self.
~ Elizabeth Lesser