Drake Quotes

I don't need anyone to validate me.

She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin...But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never seemed to enter her head. Her right to live as she pleased was not up for negotiation, even if it ran against the grain of the milieu at Huntingdon.

I always say it's worth doing what you want to do, not letting people manipulate you. It's worth holding out. It's worth having pride.

I just don't feel like I have to explain myself.

I don't think I need to prove anything to anybody.

You're not going to scare me into being somebody I don't want to be.

You can't please everyone, so proudly exclude people.

[On how she goes about trying to live authentically] Well really listening to my point of view and if I am on a set, say, that doesn't really value a woman's point of view, regardless of how they feel, continuing to give my point of view and try to find a way to be heard and not diminishing myself because other people are diminishing me. Because that, I think, is the worst temptation that, you know, you judge yourself by how others are judging you, and to fall into that trap is to walk into the realm of self-annihilation.

I don’t define myself by the boys who may or may not like me.

Never let anyone shame you into doing anything you don't choose to do. Keep your identity.

Celebrate me for who I am, dislike me for what I ain't (...) put me up on a pedestal or drag me down in the dirt (...) this is who I am, you can like ir or not, you can love me or leave me cuz I'm never gonna stop

Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people

I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.

I don't make demands. I don't tell you how it should be. I'll give you options, and it's up to you to select or throw 'em away. That should be the headline: If you're insecure, don't call.

No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.

I don't ever apologize for who I am because then I let someone else decide who I am.

I'm not a downtrodden woman. I just won't be.

I have my own strength.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

What I say goes. I'm hitting shots that I want to hit. I'm doing the things that I want to do. I play it my way.

I don't have to prove anything.

I did my one-woman show in order to show people what to do with me.

I was taught to be demure, so it was harder for me to learn how to stand up for myself and go, 'What do I want? What are my desires?'