Frederick Douglass Quotes

I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.

As they advanced (towards the fountain) one after another of Bastian's Fastastican gifts fell away from him. The strong, handsome, fearless hero became the small, fat, timid boy. (...) But then he jumped into the crystal-clear water... He drank till his thrist was quenched. And joy filled him from head to foot, the joy of living and the joy of being himself. He was new born. And the best part of it was that he was now the very person he wanted to be. If he had been free to choose, he would have chosen to be no one else.

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

I enjoy heroines who grow and come into their own during the course of a story.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

I've grown up so much here. It's been two years. I've become a woman here, I've become an actress here.

Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

I believe we are most beautiful when we are constantly shedding our old selves and moving into new light.

Freedmen have the natural thirst for knowledge, aspire to power and influence… coupled with learning, and are excited by the special study of books.

I try to be like a forest, revitalizing and constantly growing... Kids would tease me, calling me 'Little Bush.' But... I thought being called Forest helped me find my identity.

When you really understand who you are, it enables you to fight and believe.

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

This journey from non-dancer to dancer has given me a lot of self-confidence and inner strength. I feel like a different person.

'Hedwig' is not autobiographical, but what she goes through is clearly a big metaphor. She doesn't want to be what she is, but she comes to an understanding that what happened to her has actually made her whole.

Journey gave me a magic wand, and it's changed the man that I am. I was able to muster this kind of courage that I never, ever had in my life.

The Olympics were life-changing for me. I felt I went in as a girl and came out as a woman.

Young women look at me and think, 'She's really confident. She has always had it figured out,' but actually, I really, really haven't. That has come over time as I became a young woman.

Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.

When a woman conceives her true self, a miracle occurs and life around her begins again.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.