Quotes About Authenticity

If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.

There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God created us that way.

Women have to learn where their true source of validation is.

I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath.

I don't know any neighborhoods where everyone's walking around in seven-inch heels and perfect makeup.

I like to play women who are not strong at all, because, there's certainly plenty of myself that is no kind of a warrior.

I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I'm every single woman.

Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.

What's so great about working with really funny women is that vanity comes second. Whatever makes it real and funny, they're going to go for, and it's just great.

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.

I feel strongly that women who look like me should feel great. So I am not changing.

I dress women the way I see them and the way I envision them from day one, thus my customer knows that what she is looking for she will get.

I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

A home kept to the end of display is impossible to all but a few women, and their success is dearly bought.

Mostly, though, college was me trying to look cooler than I was. There were definitely some Carhartt jeans and backward kangol caps in my repertoire.

Women tend to double-speak - I'm definitely guilty of that.

I think for a long time it seemed like working in an art form and being a feminist meant portraying women in a perfect, angelic light. And there's nothing feminist about that.

I never set out to be a role model for large women, I just do what I feel is right.

Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

Women are great bullsh*t detectors. They know when it's not real.

You don't make movies about "men" and "women." You make movies about this guy and this woman and if you get them right, you'll automatically connect with a lot of people.