Fay Weldon Quotes

Clothes have helped me a lot, they helped fix my identity crisis.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age.

People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

People think of me as a privileged young girl born to wear a chiffon party dress. I was born into a big acting family, and although I absolutely adore them, it's taken me time to work out how or where I feel comfortable.

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I am like, 'This is a high-top day' or 'This is a bob day,' but when I get my clothes on that's when I see.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I don't even know what my voice is to this day.

The reality is our story and the way we love and our taste in clothing and everything else. And what we ambitiously feel we can be.

There are a lot of people who don't know me and what I am all about.

Nobody else can tell you what you are.

I know what my identity is.

Personal style says so much about who you are. What you wear can entice different things from within you.

There was no image of the other biological half of myself. And as an artists, as a - as an - as a portraitist, the look of who you are was radically important to me.

Clothes are not so much about who you are as who you want to be.

I need to shop because generally, I really do style myself. It's easier to wear clothes that are true to who you are. But if it's a headache, I'll ask for help.

You know how it is when you put on your best friend's shirt. You feel weird, even if everyone tells you that it looks good. You know that it isn't right.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

I frankly admit to not knowing who I am. This is why I refuse to buy clothes that will tell people who I want them to think I am.

I find sometimes it's easy to be myself, sometimes I find it's better to be somebody else.

I love fashion. I think it's so important, because it's how you show yourself to the world.

Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.

I look at that person and I'm like, That's not Kelli White. That's not who I am, who I started out to be.