Quotes About Self-expression

Her mirror was her only intimate, and she wanted its reflection to be the single most important statement she cared to make.

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

This new Eva, the free Eva, was tired of being rattled by life. How long had she lived being too terrified to show her real self? There was power in showing the messiness of her life and what it took to hold it together.

Running away wasn't empowering. An empowered woman would've indulged.

I just won't fold myself up tiny so as not to put off no man.

This isn't about him. It's about me. Occupying all the space I need to. Standing tall in exactly who the hell I am. A damned good mom and writer with a terrible disability who overcomes it every day and whose best work is ahead of her and whose ass is perched for the gawds in her dress.

It is impossible to become less of yourself by doing something you really wanna do. You can only become less by not doing it.

Jacob would have rather looked out of place at the Ritz than look like he cared to fit in anywhere.

I don't want to look like a goddamn fan."you are a goddamn fan". I know, but I don't want to look like one.

I can't lie I can't tell you that I'm something I'm not No matter how I try I'll never be able to give you something Something that I just haven't got

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.

the key to achievement in life is not letting others define your towers.

my life's motto: If you're not willing to invent cool-sounding bullshit about yourself, don't expect others to.

she said she didn't think he should be Trevor, but rather just himself.

Although there are few things easier than throwing on a dress, something about them communicates that you have made an effort.

I have no problems exposing to any extent. However when I gave my first bikini shot, it was quite tough facing the public out there.

I don't understand when you say I'm a man or I have a deep voice. I know I'm a female, so there's no question for me.

Everyone should dance. And everyone should sing. People say, 'Well, I can't sing.' Everybody can sing. That you do it badly is no reason not to sing.

I ain't gonna tat my face. I ain't no follower. I ain't got no reason to tat my face.

I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.

Age is no issue to me. I think 50 is the new 30 and 70 is the new 50. There are no rules that say you have to dress a certain way or be a certain way.

I'd like to have no rules and eat what I want, but I've learned over the years that I'm so disappointed when I can't wear the clothes I want to wear.