Gloria Steinem Quotes

You know, I've had my ups and downs.

I've had the big ups and the big downs.

R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.

Extreme pain to extreme pleasure has been the story of my entire life.

I think it came out of the fact that I'm a very personal person who lives a very public life. It's the only thing that I thought people would want to hear, and it's never about just being inspirational.

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.

I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.

The 'Vanity Fair' article was interesting to do because it was the first time I ever really had the opportunity to be absolutely truthful with a reporter about every aspect of my life.

My life isn't tabloid-friendly.

If someone wanted to do a biopic about me, I would like for them to consult my family.

Inside that book, it's my life-all the places where I'm hurting or I laughed or I cried or I prayed. And I've had to pray a lot!

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.

People don't know very much about me. They do not know what really goes on in my private life.

I see my albums as working diaries, as living scrapbooks of me and my life.

There are autobiographical elements to the albums, and when I write, I always reference my own life as well as other things, so I'm just like any novelist or any fiction writer who tells stories.

Life is a roller coaster. There are ups; there are downs. There are hills; there are valleys, peaks, and so on.

For a long time, I had been very secretive about a lot of the things I'd been through personally, and a lot of that is purposeful. My fan base, for the large part, is the younger generation. They're like, 'I want to know everything! I want to know it all!'

That 'Rollercoaster' album cover was very prophetic in its own way. My career has been a rollercoaster of highs and lows.

I have always wanted to tell Miranda's backstory. To me, it's so fascinating that as a YouTuber, everyone knows what we show them. No one knows what goes on when the cameras are off. I always thought, what would Miranda do in her time off?

Even if you sulk after a failure, you have to put on that exterior that you are fine. You could be going through a series of nonsense in your personal life or failure in your professional life, but you have to put on that exterior.

That's how life is: there are peaks and valleys in life, and that's how I like to write songs.

People think stars never have any problems or cares. That's bull. Why would we show any more than one mask to the public. There's a whole lotta things I've done that I don't want to think about. But I bring it all right out when I need it for a role.

There's a lot of insecurities and I think that's being human. There's highs and lows and it's about navigating through that.

My album, 'No Shame,' will give my fans an extremely real and heartfelt experience of what I have been going through in my personal life.

These days, it's more like me coming from playing a show and feeling the high from all the energies directed at me, to feeling a bit weird when I go home to the place where people know me from before all that.