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Quotes About Authenticity

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
~ Alanis Morissette
People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
~ Mitch Hedberg
Some Girls are very focused on how they should walk, instead they should first focus on how should they talk.
~ Unknown
Money attracts the females you want. Struggle attracts the woman you need.
~ Unknown
Women are always being tested...but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.
~ Ritu Ghatourey
Women are always true, even in the midst of their greatest falsities, because they are always influenced by some natural feeling.
~ Honore de Balzac
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
~ Judy Garland
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
~ Marianne Williamson
Be critical. Women have the right to say: This is surface, this falsifies reality, this degrades.
~ Tillie Olsen
They say real girls ain't never perfect, perfect girls ain't never real.
~ Drake
I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.
~ Courtney Love
What's the point of being a lesbian if a woman is going to look and act like an imitation man?
~ Rita Mae Brown
I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
~ Sex and the City
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
~ Betty Friedan
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
~ Coco Chanel
Now what I love in women is, they won't or can't do otherwise than lie, but do it so well, the very truth seems falsehood to it.
~ Lord Byron
We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.
~ Eva Burrows
Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.
~ Roseanne Barr
There are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and help women feel beautiful about who we are inside, which is the only beauty there truly is, is so nice. Let's get down and dirty. Let's be a real girl.
~ Drew Barrymore
They're right to think that about me, because I'm the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.
~ Angelina Jolie
We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse, and I don't think that I'm better than you but I don't think that I'm worse. Women learn to be women, and men learn to be men, and I don't blame it all on you, but I don't want to be you.
~ Ani DiFranco
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel