Miguel Quotes

Just because you like me doesn’t make me what you want or need.

Am I going to be able to be the person I want to be in this relationship?

You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.

Binaries aside, we are the products of our relationships with our identities - cities we have built, bodies we have embraced, kindred souls we've cherished, our memories, our dreams, the fears we hide, the pain we hold - identities that cannot be reduced to a collection of labels.

As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn’t matter, I knew that to her it did.

The first question in any interactive process with another is: now Who Am I, and Who Do I Want to Be, in relationship to that?

...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.

I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.

If I pretend to myself that I'm different from the way I truly am, I'm going to make choices that won't make me happy.

You can't make people who you want them to be. That was a hard lesson for me.

Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.

In matters of the heart it is always better to want something you don't have than to have something you don't want.

I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view anything as part of being a person, so I feel okay with "marketing" or other things like that.

When you do not treat yourself the way you want others to treat you, you can never change the way things are.

I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.

People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

Being called gorgeous is not a bad thing! But at the same time, I don’t want to thrive on people’s opinions of me.

The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.

I just have to remind myself that my daily quotidie in life has almost nothing to do with any aspect of my professional life as a public figure. And I think a lot of people get to that point - specifically, sort of getting comfortable looking out for yourself and taking care of yourself and defining yourself based on healthier criteria, and not criteria that's established by complete strangers that you've never met.

I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person. I'm not just breasts or ass or thighs - I'm a whole being! And it just seems like women aren't necessarily striving to be the whole of themselves.

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us