Quotes About Self-expression

When you're a black woman, her mother said, ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

When you're a black woman, her mother said, ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.

What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen. HENRY DAVID THOREAU

I totally bought you as a girl, says Marisol. I'll double check with Frances later, but by the sounds of things, you seem to have no balls.

She doesn't know how to talk about herself. She is very, very good at telling other people's stories. She is known, as a producer, to be an unusually good reader of scripts when it comes to character and motivation. She has an excellent sense of structure. But her cheeks redden and she stumbles when she tries to share in meetings. It's as if the whole of her life rushes in, and she doesn't know where to begin.

I'm not a cuckoo, either. I'm a fool is what.

Dan, you don't mean to tell me that you didn't get in touch with the bookstores in Detroit and tell them about it." "No," I said. "I'm kind of shy. And I didn't think it was my job." "Dan, you shouldn't hide your light under a bushel

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it, written as well as you, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself—and thus make yourself indispensable.

Sexiness is about confidence and individuality. I can't keep my eyes off the women you see in cities like London, New York and Paris – the way they carry themselves and put themselves together are always so unique.

If you're comfortable with yourself, then you'll look beautiful. If you're not feeling comfortable with yourself, than that kind of shows. I think that as cheesy as the pageant industry can be seen at times, it actually does help women – boosting their confidence and growing into their own. I have to give it credit for that.

I found I was more confident when I stopped trying to be someone else's definition of beautiful and started being my own.

Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities, a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say and it's true, I do have a certain fondness for women that have dark hair.

"Friday's a free day. A woman's day."

Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself.

Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny. It doesn't matter what you did or where you were. It matters where you are and what you're doing. Get out there. Sing the song in your heart and never let anyone shut you up.

Don't be little yourself. Be BIG yourself.

Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.

I have no resentments, no complaints, no ax to grind. I simply feel what I feel and do what I do.

Live in such a way, that if someone speaks badly of you no one would belive it. Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.

As far as I'm concerned playing 'Dress Up' begins at the age of five, and never truly ends.

I don't intend to stop showing a little cleavage. Nor do I intend to stop flashing a little thigh.

You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.