Anne Reid Quotes

I was never a prisoner to my footballing status.

I see myself as 38, but you don't notice it.

I try not to define myself. Other people are going to do that for you anyway.

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

You could almost say I'm someone who doesn't practice age.

That's been the tragedy of my life, actually. I've always looked younger than I am.

I was scared to say I was in my 40s because at that point, it sounded really old, and to out myself as a middle-aged human - I felt very awkward about it.

It has got to the point in this country where men believe they are men, just because that is their birthright. If that is true, then, by the same logic, an animal held captive in a zoo is still a free wild beast.

We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this dye doesn’t fool you. My lady, you don’t dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

'Nimona' is about identity and if who you are is defined by what you look like. It's not a book about body image at all, but I would be lying if I said that wasn't in there even at the conception of it.

I always told myself I will never let football define who I am; I would only let in enhance who I am.

At 49, you want people to think you are at least a decade younger, not a year older.

I didn't want to be a sex symbol. That was perhaps my mistake, but you can't really change who you are.

I think so many women allow themselves to be defined by somebody else's narrative.

I want people to understand why I'm not 'P1' or 'P2.'

I'm not a dumb idiot just because of what I wear.

We don't need to be categorized - we are all individual and beautifully unique.

Poppy does not identify with an age.

I don't like being labelled so I decided to label myself.

I figured out that it was important for me to have my identity, just live independently and like being myself, musically.

I never doubted my place in the world.

Every single part of our persona, no matter how long we've rocked it, is a choice we make every day.

We'll become in our lives whoever the people we love the most say we are.

Where you're from shapes you, but you can actually do whatever you want.