Dee Rees Quotes

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.

I've worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I'm past the point where I worry about people liking me.

I learned not to care what other people think.

I will never apologize for having a life.

I don't need to be liked.

I know how to look after myself.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

I don't have to prove anything.

I don't need anyone to validate me.

I'm looking to no man walking this earth for approval of what I'm doing.

I'm trying every day, when I meet a new human being, to not have the first thought that comes into my mind be, 'Are they going to like me?' I'm allowed to say, 'I like this, and I don't like that.'

It was kind of a hard lesson when I figured out that not everybody is going to be kind, be sweet. So I've learned that I am never going to make everybody happy. There's always going to be someone who can't stand the way I write, and I can't take that personally.

Just getting older, you stop caring what other people think, but also, you know who you are, and you know what you want.

My dad would love to say he taught me how to walk. He taught me how to be like, 'This is your space.'

When I was younger, I was more self-conscious about living up to or surpassing the expectations of others. But as you get older, you start to build confidence.

I better know how to take care of myself.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

I think as I've gotten older and the things I've gone through, I'm not as concerned about what everybody thinks.

You have to empower yourself.

I do not regret anything I do.

I'm going to give it my all, but I'm also going to know my worth, know that I have options, and that's the best feeling in the world.

I used to just let people tell me what to do. I didn't really have a mind of my own, and I couldn't really say yes or no to things because I didn't really know what I wanted, but now I feel really confident in the fact that I can really be distinctive on what I want and how I want to do things.