Ian Thorpe Quotes

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

I have nothing to be ashamed of. And I love to talk about the things that I am ashamed of.

And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment.

A lot of women feel ashamed to be weak.

Weaklings must lie.

By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.

I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to tell my father and my family and my friends that I was gay, I need to not hide this anymore.

You know the expression, 'You're only as sick as your secrets?' I believe that, and I think I try to have my work live by that to a degree.

I was fine being in the closet at the beginning of my career because that's what you were supposed to be - until I realized that it didn't serve anybody, and I was left feeling utterly empty. This is who I am, so I've gotta be me.

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.

We all have our own closets to come out of.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

I don't want to have to hide from the world anymore.

I've told lots of lies in my life. I try not to lie, but I still do. It's very difficult to get to 37 and not be ashamed of something you've done. But I think your life is easier, ultimately, if you're honest.

I think if you have any fear or shame, it's really hard to want to express yourself.

Self-confidence is something I've always lacked in. But finally, at some point, I just decided to be honest.

We are as sick as our secrets, so I tell everything.

I realize that everyone has their own road to travel in making this decision about when it's right to come out. I know that in my case, the worst fears never materialized. All in all, professionally, I know the work I do here every day is better because I'm honest about who I am.

Being vulnerable is not a sign of weakness. It's a sign of strength.

If anybody says they're not afraid of themselves, they're lying!

I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.

I'm still here, living proof that sometimes it's OK to admit to your fallibility.

I don't think I am fearless. I am just me.

I do have a little bit of trouble with candor around the things that I used to do. I think it's probably just resultant of shame and embarrassment and not wanting to be defined by the life that I used to live.