Elena Kagan Quotes

I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think you have to prepare yourself that not everyone in this world has the same personality... The one thing I've chosen to be great at in my life is singing - so why not be proud that I'm great at it?

I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.

I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.

I'm not ashamed to be me. More than anyone else I know, I love my life and accept myself. What's wrong with being unique? I am proud of everything that I am and will become.

Everyone has different issues, and I think for a great deal of women, those issues are self-esteem. And for me, I really wanted to understand it and get through it because I didn't want to be an actress afraid of getting older. I refuse to live that way.

What I want to represent for my daughters is that you can always stay true to yourself and still be successful.

I just encourage young girls to be true to themselves.

It's very important for females to feel empowered. It took me a long time to find that inside me.

I think that women who know who they are are beautiful.

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

If you are confident in yourself and however you want yourself to be presented, and you're doing well and doing it because you want to do it and not because someone is pressuring you, then more power to you.

Some people like you, some people don't. In the end you just have to be yourself.

I realized that I've lived half my life already, and it's time to believe in - and stand up for - myself.

I have two younger sisters and I'm such an advocate of owning who you are as a person. Don't be ashamed or intimidated. Never feel like you are not amazing.

I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.

The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.

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

I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.

I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.

I'm not sorry for who I am.

I don't need anyone to validate me.

I am what I am.

I'm proud of me, and I am who I am.

I think, when you value yourself and respect yourself, everything else just falls into place.

A girl's best friend is her pride.