Quotes About Authenticity

It's not about being right, it's about getting it right.

People want real. And there are a lot of women out there doing that.

I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women.

It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No, no, she'd had enough of that; she wanted to live!

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details of your own experiences and your own life.

Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too.

I do hope that for the young women watching the show they know it is heightened reality and just grown ups playing teenagers. That's not how it is supposed to go. Just keep it to yourself.

I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.

I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.

"Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.

It takes time to really get to know someone. Take the time because in the early months of a relationship, both parties are in the "selling" phase.

You hear about these shows where there are all these women are supposedly always in a catfight, and then you find out in reality that they're all getting along fine.

But I'll never be one of those women who feel that they always have to wear earrings and aren't properly dressed without them.

Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a great thing to do in my book.

We have to face the fact that most men and women out there are more stale than they know, more bored than they care to admit.

Some of the men and women who will not say in so many words the thing which is not, will deliberately give a false impression. They are not the servants of truth; they are the parasites of truth.

I feel like I've been able to be my true self and discover what I can honestly bring to the table by working with other women.

I want to see women onscreen the way I see them in society.

We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they're wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and they've got flat hair and they can't walk.

Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.

I definitely think women are running it right now. We are not afraid to speak our minds. It's exciting because that's what I stand for, for people to be irreverent and to be themselves.

There has to be this balance of reality for a woman. I don't want to play women who just serve a purpose for the script.

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.