Quotes About Self-expression

I do consider myself a feminist, yeah. Totally.

I'm not a type of feminist who is afraid to be sexy.

It's not my place to tell anyone what kind of feminist she should be.

I've set the bar high in terms of having a very feminist attitude towards how I present my body.

My name is Paulina Porizkova, and I am a feminist.

I don't mind the term 'feminist.'

Oh, am I a feminist? I usually say that I was an accidental feminist. Really, I was just being me.

I think being a feminist is to each her own. It's kind of like asking someone what being a woman means to them. We should all be feminists. We should all want equality.

I'm not really a femme fatale.

I always try to be myself, be it a festival crowd or my own crowd.

I make documentaries. I attend film festivals. I don't have time to sit at cafes taking selfies.

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

Sports is one of those few things left in our society where, as soon as you step on the court, or get in the ring, you are who you are.

If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

We are already so many things by the time we reach the middle of life that it is possible to see that really anything can happen, and that, by extension, anything is doable. I decided I'd write 'The Calling' as someone else. Another writer entirely, a fictional one who would be played by me.

Four More Shots' Please wanted to show a bunch of women who have agency, are fierce but not apologetic about their life.

Chantelle Winnie is my birth name. Chantelle Winnie Harlow, I call her my Sasha Fierce.

Winnie Harlow is my alter ego like how Beyonce refers to her stage name as Sasha Fierce.

I think on stage there's a side of me that comes out that's very fierce and confident.

I've been playing in makeup and, like, wearing makeup since fifth grade - so the earlier you start, the more you know.

I don't want to be a cookie-cutter-poster-boy-bubble-gum-chewing fighter.

We're fighting to be ourselves in a world that's trying to make us like everyone else.

It's really fun to play a character that fights back and say what she means.

I've never been interested in dressing one woman. What's interested me was to have a philosophy. It hasn't been important to put a woman in a blue dress. I wanted to dress women who wanted to look at themselves. To stand out. To be women who were not part of the crowd. A woman who fights and advances.