David Milch Quotes

If I can create something that allows a woman to feel better - that is the true reward.

I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness and love.

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

My narrators tend to be women with low self-esteem, so I can send them to charm school.

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.

If someone comes to me and says they're not capable of being loved, I want to reach out to them and tell them that everybody's loveable. If a man is forced or wants to become a better man, then I root for him. Everybody needs to be loved.

My biggest lesson in becoming a woman is to really love what I've been given.

Anything I can give women to help them feel better about themselves, that's what I want to do.

I never could have dreamt that I would be able to help girls feel better about themselves. But now I know I can. I want to do everything in my power to do more.

I've learned to ignore the negative people and just be a living example of confidence and self-love.

I get a lot of really nice messages from girls who are like, 'You make me wanna be myself because people accept it.'

To actually be allowed to be beautiful is a total first for me.

You've got to love what's yours.

It's not about me. It's about not having to be ashamed.

I'm not tired of who I am. That would be sad!

I find that a lot of women respond to my work in that it doesn't make them feel bad about themselves.

Women must learn to find self-worth within themselves, not through others. It is important to carve out a place just for you.

Money is a good thing, but every morning you have to get up with something no one else in the world gets up with - that's that image. That face you see in the mirror, you got to love it, and you better do some things that you feel good about inside of you. Of course, money is going to come, but make certain that you do some good with it.

You always just have to be the best that you can be. And if you know that in your heart, then that's all that matters.