Fiona Apple Quotes

A lot of my wounds have healed. They have left scars, and I can either hide my scars, put a long sleeve shirt on, and cover them up. Or, I can show them off and say, "Yeah, it happened."

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive, but we should be allowed to say, 'I went through something really strange and awful and it has altered me forever.'

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

I'm a person that carries everything that happened to me in my past, with me into the future. I refuse to let it make me bitter. I still completely believe in love and I remain open to anything that will happen to me.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.

I can't hurt any more than I've been hurt, I can't cry any more than I've cried. I've been to the highest of highs and lowest of lows, so one day I'm going to find my middle ground and be happy.

I took some of the hardest things about my life and wrote an empowering song with it. It has made me want to always write from that place.

I think we've all done things we're not particularly fond of. Everybody goes through it and comes out the other end, and goes on with his life as if it didn't happen.

I am a big believer in life in this fact: Scars are a very beautiful thing.

We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers.

My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.

I don't have shame around where I've been or what I've done to survive to get to where I'm at in my life. When you don't have shame around something, it can't hurt you.

It's OK to feel pain and experience it. I'm not trying to fix myself. My suffering has given me so much.

I love scars.

It took me a while to learn, but we are allowed to make mistakes and have flaws.

Homeboy Industries is a healing center for broken children. I was a broken child, and they showed me how to put all those pieces back together. It's not about being a gangster. It's about being a man or a woman trying to recover and live better.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

My past made me who I am today. I can’t just pretend it never happened. But the biggest lesson I learnt from that, is that I can be an example for others who are still struggling! There’s always hope and help for everyone. I think it’s my responsibility to do that, to help. I always refer to this as the “moment of clarity”. It’s hard to explain what really happened, but it was a once in a lifetime kind of moment. I had reached my lowest point and I just knew things had to change quickly because there was just no other way, you know.

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

Vulnerability is power.

I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.

If people can live through genocide and retain compassion, if they can take strength in pain, if they are able, still, to laugh, then certainly we can learn something from them.