Quotes About Authenticity

You don't have to be half-naked to be successful. Just be talented.

I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.

Girl power in my mind is to let girls be exactly what they are. Let them be angry. Let them be resentful. And rebellious. Let them be hard and soft and loving and sad and silly. Let them be wrong. Let them be right. Let them be everything. because, they are everything.

Be interested, not interesting.

I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei

Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.

All On is a kind of lying.

Losing myself is so second nature to me by now that I'm always surprised when it's noticed by others.

I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.

Sex loses all its power and magic when it becomes explicit, mechanical, overdone, when it becomes a mechanistic obsession. It becomes a bore.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Anatole Broyard

When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious.

Je tiens à mon imperfection comme à ma raison d'être.

Šta može hladna i gola istina protiv blistavih ?ari laži?

Kobieta jest szczera wtedy, gdy nie k?amie bezu?ytecznie.

Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself

Trying to please everyone all the time never works. It leads to hating oneself and then hating oneself even more when one later tries to assert one's authority. Today

L'essentiel, c'est de ne pas mentir, et d'abord de ne pas se mentir. Ne pas se mentir sur la vie, sur nous-mêmes, sur le bonheur.

Dare to be yourself

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.