Quotes About Self

You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.

When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

In Hollywood - and indeed, the world - a lot of women only think about themselves in the context of men. It's truly sad.

When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.

Bridesmaids proved there was an audience there that we knew was there. It proved that women go to the movies. They want to see story about themselves.

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don't really inhabit their lives or their bodies.

You have the power. You are the magic wand.

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.

You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?

Too many people make the past their identity and spend the rest of their lives accumulating sympathy for their past pain.

A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.

Most mother-women give up whatever ghost of a unique and human self they may have when they 'marry' and raise children.

My poems are almost all written as Diane. I don't have any problems with that, and if other women choose to identify with this, I think that's terrific.

I think as women and men become more conscious, the terms "woman/man" begin to lose meaning.

There's no excuse…for women today not to own their own power and lead an unlimited life.

Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.

All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.

I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.

You can rescue a woman from a dragon - because you can go slay the dragon - but you can't rescue a woman from herself.

I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

I have no ambivalence about myself wearing make-up or designer clothes but I have an enormous ambivalence about what the fashion world has done to women.

I didn't change, I just found myself.

I am RESILIENT, therefore, I am unstoppable. It's important to always remember who YOU are. No matter what challenges you may have to face, ALWAYS stay true to yourself and NEVER give up. Never!