Sherman Alexie Quotes

I like 'me'/'I' songs.

If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life.

I'm not sitting on a soapbox telling women what they should and shouldn't do, but I know what works for me.

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

I never put a lot of praise on myself because of my relationship with Ike. I was just happy when I started to like myself - when I divorced and took control of my life.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

It's the love you have for yourself that's most important.

I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.

My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

How many girls, models or not, are secure about their bodies? I think I'm more realistic about what to expect of myself now. I also have a lot of other things than modeling going on in my life that I'm proud of.

My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

All I have to do is what's right for me.

You just have to surround yourself with people who are going to support and love you before trying to sell you as a product, or push you into something you don't want to do.

But I also enjoy life... the more scrutiny I am under, the more confident I become. I am who I am. I can't do anything about it, and I love who I am.

Putting my words piece online was an important part of my plan to help women learn how to love themselves and have a better life.

I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.

As a life coach, I love makeovers, from new clothes to surgery, pedicures to highlights. But redoing makes you feel better only if approached with the right attitude.

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.

I don't want to be no more than what I am.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.