Ellie Bamber Quotes

One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.

I've kind of stepped into my femininity.

People can say I am a terrible role model because I swear all the time or that I fight people. Look, I don't want little girls to have the same ambitions as me. I want them to know that it is O.K. to be ambitious. I want them to know that it is O.K. to say whatever it is that is on their mind.

To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.

I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.

Girls shouldn't be afraid to look messy. They shouldn't have to always fit in with the pretty girls. Our goal as women is not to impress guys.

My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it's okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.

You just gotta be yourself and don't hold anything back just because you're a woman.

I'm just trying to be myself and encourage other young women to be themselves.

I think anyplace people can be themselves is a good thing.

I always wanted to make sure that I was honest to myself and that people wanted to hear an opinion that was authentic... I wanted Man Repeller to be a voice for women who felt like they didn't have a voice or for women who didn't know how to express their voice.

The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.

I'm able to go out there, and I'm really able to be, like, unabashedly myself. And I want somebody who's young, who's struggling, who's not sure if it's OK if they are themselves to know that it's OK.

Kids will tell me 'oh I want to be like you when I grow up,' you know. I just thought 'nah, don't be like me, be like you,' because first of all they don't really know me but second of all I understand what they're trying to say but I just let them know - be like you.

I'd watch shows like 'The Kids in the Hall' or 'Twin Peaks,' and I'd see weird people being celebrated and appreciated without compromising their weirdness. On 'The Facts of Life,' I'd see girls who were pudgy, beautiful, popular, tomboyish - many ways of being female - and I'd feel quietly reassured.

I'm probably not going to shed all the pageant girl, because that's who I am. If you don't like it, that's too damn bad.

Everybody's inspiring me to just be me.

Sephora has always been the best, in the sense that they love me for me and that they let me be me. That's the coolest part. I think that's why the products are great - because there's a sincerity and authenticity.

I been me from day one, I'm not 'bout to start acting different, talking different, treating people different, or looking different.

I like people who are authentically themselves, and they own it, and most importantly, they own their story.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

I have read a lot about what I am and who I am: 'mini,' a copy, simply 'more of the same.' Dear delegates, I stand before you as I am and as life made me and I am proud of that.

It makes me proud to help girls realize that they don't have to change who they are.