Zadie Smith Quotes

I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that's what I deal with when I am alone.

I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.

I enjoy being a girl.

I have no issues with my identity.

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.

My sexuality is a part of me that I really like. But it's not the totality of me.

I don't think any woman wants to be known for being beautiful or busty. I think you want to be known for who you are.

I'm an athlete, yes, but I'm also a woman. I'm someone who kind of, in a way, lost touch with that part of myself after I lost my legs, because there are certain feminine traits you lose when you have prosthetic legs.

I remember growing up and feeling all the time not pretty enough, too rude, too loud, taking too much space because precisely I wanted to maybe be bossy and loud and unapologetic and not really smooth all the time, and those were not really qualities that were valued for me.

When someone tells me that I'm not real, I say to them, 'Well, what about me isn't real?' I have not changed my figure. This is who I am.

I'm a proud woman. I'm a proud man. I'm a proud whatever people think I am.

I am proud to be a Richie.

I am not what a girl dreams of.

I'm still feminine, I'm still a woman, and above all, I'm still human.

Being a lesbian is only about the 47th most interesting thing about me.

Just be yourself man, be proud of who you are.

I'm not trying to redefine sexuality or humanity or say that my answer is right and yours is wrong. I'm just happy with who I am.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

I feel like so much more than my gender and so much more than my relationship to my body and my relationship to men. And, but suddenly you're sort of asked to be an expert.

Am I proud of being straight? No. You know why? Because if I start acting proud, that's going to make me seem kind of gay.

We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.

I feel like I don't see myself as all that different from other humans as a woman, but I'm surprised by how frequently I'm asked to see myself differently. So that's one kind of terror to have to face. Am I a unicorn? What's sticking out of my head that I'm not seeing? I'm simply female, and that puts me alongside all of my human counterparts.

Be proud of who you are.

We are not what other people say we are. We are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love. That's okay.

I never felt like an Amanda.