Georgia Toffolo Quotes

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

I personally have a philosophy around authenticity and vulnerability.

I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me.

There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.

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

I think sexy is vulnerability, and there's no way you can act vulnerable. It just has to be there.

When I was younger, I was afraid to be myself.

I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest.

We all try to pretend we're the person we want to be when we're really not, and you've just gotta be willing to say, 'Here are all my flaws; here's who I am - take it or leave it. If you love me still, then let's do this.'

Thanks to social media, we've also been able to show ourselves as we are. In the end, masks are useless. You have to be real.

I don't really know any other way than to be vulnerable or just be myself.

I hope being honest about my experiences and contextualizing them empowers young women to step into their truths, tell their own stories, and live visibly.

I don't have any issue with people seeing my real self.

There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone.

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal - well, semi-normal.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that's such a downer, and people hate that topic. It's not that vulnerability is the upside, but it's better than shame, I guess.

Whatever my situation is, I want to show that I'm not perfect, and perfect isn't real. The youth need to know that, especially.

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.

I am not good at first or second impressions, and you have to spend some time with me to know me. Also, I don't want to put my best foot forward and prove something, as that is not me. I would rather be me and have you like me for who I am, instead of being someone else.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.