Hina Khan Quotes

I think today women are very scared to celebrate themselves, because then they just get labeled.

You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.

I think that we could be more careful about what we're saying to young women in terms of their expectations. It's unrealistic to expect people to always be in designer clothes. Girls growing up deserve more freedom in how they look and how they feel about how they look.

I walk around naked all the time, but it doesn't mean I am completely comfortable and happy with my body.

There were days I forgot my school clothes, and I would actually go to school with skating tights and a little skirt. It's very embarrassing... I definitely had to be comfortable in my own skin, and my mom taught me that.

There's nothing wrong with a woman being comfortable, confident.

I'm proud of my body, I'm proud of my sport, I'm proud of being a female athlete.

Girls are so in their head about their body image. It doesn't matter how confident you are - it's hormones!

I just want to make sure girls know they don't have to carry the weight of achieving nearly impossible standards on their shoulders every day.

Since I wore a bikini at the Miss India pageant, I have no inhibitions wearing it on screen.

I've stopped blaming myself for being a woman. I've stopped being apologetic about my sexuality and become comfortable with myself.

I've had inquiries for things like TV show 'Splash,' where people go out in front of the whole nation in a bikini. But I think bikinis are just for the beach.

I think women think I'm inspirational because I'm unapologetic. I have cellulite. I have back fat. I've got a thick stomach. But I work my body like I don't because I don't know any other body. I don't know how to feel thin. I just know how to feel like Ashley.

A lot of people have the misconception that, as a Muslim woman, I am somehow against women wearing bikinis. No, I want women to feel comfortable and confident in whatever they wear.

Despite the gender stereotypes in the '80s, my race-car-driving dad taught me that I could do whatever my brother could.

An all-girls school, when you have 800 girls from the age of 11 to 18, you would think, should be a prime opportunity to really inject a sense of confidence and power. And instead, we were very much taught in relation to men, in terms of what the brother school would think of us.

I was extremely shy, but since college, I think I have opened up and gained confidence. I find it much easier to make friends, I let myself go a bit more.

It's the most gratifying thing to have young girls telling me, 'I love that you do a photo shoot in pants and a button up shirt, and you still look cool.'

I think the main thing for young women is to have confidence and not be afraid to challenge continuing inequalities, because that's the only way you'll get change.

I'm a woman who is very confident with the body, with my body.

For me, fashion means dare. I don't mind wearing a bikini. I am okay with it.

If I could borrow anything from Miley, it would be her stage confidence. For me, that's just going to come with time.

I would love to do stuff on camera. That's what I want to do. It took me a really long time to feel confident as an actor. I think, also, because there's a weird stigma about musical theater where we treat the men who do musical theater differently than we treat the women in musical theater.

I'm not into makeup or dresses or typically girly things. But to me, those things don't really define what it is to be a female artist in this industry any more. It's being brave and courageous and true to yourself.

Moving gave me confidence. I was really reclusive when I first moved. I stayed home a lot or went to shows alone. But by the second semester of my freshman year, I started making friends.