Judith Durham Quotes

I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.

I have no issues with my identity.

I do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pants can make you feel is better than any therapist, because when you look in the mirror, you see a different person - you are a different person. It's superficial change that can lead to real change.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

Perhaps I have a wider range than I'd given myself credit for.

When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

I am a good and interested mother - which has surprised me.

I know who I am and what I do.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.

I used to hate getting dressed, getting in front of the camera and walking down the red carpet. It bothered me because I felt like I couldn't be what they wanted me to be. Now it's still not my favorite thing, but I get through it a lot easier because I know that my work brings value to who I am.

I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I never saw myself as beautiful. I can look back and see it now, but then? Never.

Apparently, everyone is most scared of the psychological tests. I didn't know how I'd fare. What I've found out is I may be creative and imaginative, but I'm also extremely together.

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.