Phrases

01. There’s nothing wrong with being afraid. It’s not the absence of fear, it’s overcoming it. Sometimes you’ve got to blast through and have faith.

02. Don’t let anyone tell you what you can or cannot do, or cannot achieve. Do. Not. Allow. It.

03. I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.

04. All I can do is follow my instincts, because I’ll never please everyone.

05. Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like. I promise.

06. IT IS TIME THAT WE ALL SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM INSTEAD OF TWO SETS OF OPPOSING IDEALS.

07. I’m going to do what I want to do. I’m going to be who I really am. I’m going to figure out what that is.

08. I think our fears find us and force us to confront them over and over again.

09. Don’t feel stupid if you don’t like what everyone else pretends to love.

10. If not me- who?, If not now- when?

11. Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior.

12. If you believe in equality, you’re a feminist. Sorry to tell you.

13. Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it’s a process. It’s often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.

14. I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

15. Believe in yourself and go for it

16. The saddest thing for a girl to do is to dumb herself down for a guy.

17. Girls should never be afraid to be smart

18. There’s nothing interesting about looking perfect.

19. We really damage our own confidence when we put ourselves down, so I try not to.

20. I’ve found that if ultimately, if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in, even if it makes you vulnerable, amazing things can and will happen.

21. I think that it is very important if you know what you want, understand where you are heading towards, and try your best to get it. It is only when we use our hearts to do it, and fall in love with what we are doing, then can we really get real determination.

22. If I’ve learned anything, it’s really just to stop trying to find answers and certainties.

23. I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.

24. It’s important to read because it’s really good for your vocabulary. It’s really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I find it relaxing.

25. Feminism is equality: politically; culturally; socially; economically. That’s it, that simple.

26. My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder.

27. I really believe that you have to earn things. I don’t feel comfortable unless I have worked really hard.

28. People associate feminism with hate – with man hate – and that’s really negative. I don’t think that’s what feminism is about at all – it’s really positive. I think that’s why women became reluctant to use the word.

29. But it’s a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

30. I’m a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

31. There’s a Theodore Roosevelt speech about the importance of being in the arena, whether you fail or you succeed, or you make a complete idiot of yourself, as long as you’re doing the best with what you have, using whatever knowledge you have to bring to the table at that moment. And you continue to keep learning. I think my mistakes have made me much stronger. It’s nice to know that things don’t ultimately break you; that you need to go there to know.

32. I HAVE REALIZED THAT FIGHTING FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS HAS TOO OFTEN BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH MAN-HATING. IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW FOR CERTAIN, IT IS THAT THIS HAS TO STOP.

33. I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes.

34. I keep telling myself that I’m a human being, an imperfect human being who’s not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.

35. I find the whole concept of being ‘SEXY’ embarrassing and confusing. If I do an interview with photographs people desperately want to change me- dye my hair blonder, pluck my eyebrows. Then there’s the choice of clothes. I know everyone wants a picture of me in a mini skirt, BUT THATS NOT ME. I feel uncomfortable. I’d never go out in a mini skirt. Personally, I don’t actually think it’s even that sexy. Whats sexy about saying, ‘I’m here with my boobs out and a short skirt, have a look at everything I’ve got?’ My idea of sexy is that less is more. The LESS you reveal the MORE people can wonder.

36. If men don’t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won’t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don’t have to control, women won’t have to be controlled.

37. I just try and surround myself, for the biggest proportion of time that I can, with people who make me feel normal, because constantly feeling abnormal is quite difficult.

38. Don’t be ashamed if you don’t like what others pretend to love

39. Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women’s movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it’s affecting men hasn’t really been addressed.

40. I like books that aren’t just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.

41. I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.

42. The difficulty for me is that I’m interested in so many different things. I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I’m pretty sure that I’ll end up doing four or five different things.

43. Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong… It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals.

44. I feel like young girls are told, I don’t know, that they have to be this kind of princess and fragile. It’s bullshit. I identify much more with being a warrior, a fighter. If I was going to be a princess I’d be a warrior princess definitely.

45. Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn’t want to do was get myself into a corset, because I was worried I’d never get out again.

46. I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I’m quite proud that I’ve had fun with fashion and don’t always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else.

47. Harry Potter’s like Santa Clause: something you can’t see but wish was real so badly that you end up believing in it.

48. If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don’t, that’s wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don’t shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surface to what it is all really about, and I wish people wouldn’t get caught up in that. We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop.

49. Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. … Gender equality is your issue, too. … I’ve seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help, for fear it would make them less of a men—or less of a man. I’ve seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men don’t have the benefits of equality, either.

50. My friends are all really nice about my fame, they’re just curious really, they ask lots of questions.