self-acceptance Quotes

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well.

I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.