Suzanne Farrell Quotes

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.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

The great thing about being a woman is the power of reinvention.

I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

And when I was angry, when I was younger, I was in a cocoon. Now I'm a beautiful, black butterfly.

I think it is such an amazing moment when people realize what they are and what they can be, and they start putting themselves out into the world. I think you can see it in people when it's happening. They look different.

As I've got older, and since I cut all my hair off, I've felt a bit more liberated about trying different things out.

If you don't like who you are and where you are, don't worry about it because you're not stuck either with who you are or where you are. You can grow. You can change. You can be more than you are.

There's nothing you can do about the past. But, you can do a great deal about your future. You don't have to be the same person you were yesterday. You can make changes in your life -- absolutely startling changes in a fairly short time. You can make changes you can't even conceive of now, if you give yourself a chance.

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

I'm a work in progress.

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.

My last boyfriend used to always tell me, 'Grow up.' But I say, Why?

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.

In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can't argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself.

You don't have to stay where you are; you can make a change.

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.