Sigrid Quotes

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

If a boy messes up, you walk away. If a boy isn't treating you right, you walk away. It sounds simpler than it is, but you can't allow yourself to be disrespected. You have to be a strong girl.

When I was 12, all I wanted was to be good at school, and to do something admirable, something you can't take away from me because I'm not popular or beautiful enough.

I didn't write my book, 'I Don't Care About Your Band,' in order to give women a brand-new set of dating rules they need to feel terrible about not abiding. I wrote my book to make the women who read it feel good about themselves, and a little more entitled to be treated well by the guys they go out with.

My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.

I'm not scared to look like a complete fool in front of people. It's just not one of my insecurities.

You know, people can't fall in love with me just because I'm good at what I do.

Find your self-respect now. Don't dumb yourselves down. Think of yourself as capable and worthy of finding a guy who is going to respect you, too. It's so important, I mean, and the confidence you get from feeling smart and tackling something like mathematics, which is a challenge, right? Math is hard.

As women, we need to remember: don't be a doormat!

If my accomplishments frighten someone, it's nothing to do with me - that's to do with them. But the men who are in my life see me as a person - as a woman - not as a character I've played.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.

I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.

It's not easy for most girls to stand in next-to-nothing and listen to photographers and stylists commenting on how they look.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

You always gotta reach the people who feel bad about themselves or insecure about themselves, and I think 'Like 'Em All' was just a perfect song for all the girls, and I think that's why it blew up like it did.

I think that, if anything, the pageant is great for people who suffer from body issues. It's all about being comfortable with what you're given and what you have and being able to flaunt it without being insecure. It's about empowering women, not making them feel weak or less.

Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity; it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.

A woman is more than the sum of her parts.

God is not a doormat, nor should anyone else be a doormat.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

Confidence is a very fragile thing.