But sometimes I’ve felt a little constrained by that idea of who I’m meant to be.
I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the warrior.
I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.
Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like, I promise.
I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.
I’m reading so much and exposing myself to so many new ideas. It almost feels like the chemistry and the structure of my brain is changing so rapidly sometimes.
What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.
I’ve always been like that; I give 100 percent. I can’t do it any other way.
I’ve always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.
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.
Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who you want to be. Just encourage and include each other, don’t ostracize the gender in front of you.
When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams, because they didn’t want to appear muscle-y, when at 18, my male friends were unable to express their feelings, I decided that I was a feminist.
It’s almost like the better I do, the more my feeling of inadequacy actually increases, because I’m just going, ‘Any moment, someone’s going to find out I’m a total fraud, and that I don’t deserve any of what I’ve achieved.’ I can’t possibly live up to what everyone thinks I am and what everyone’s expectations of me are.
Books are a friend, books are an escape, books are a means to empowerment and books are a means to understanding yourself better and in a world around you. They are everything.
We want to empower people to take action and make change and translate their passion into really doing something.
You foul evil little cockroach!
Follow your dreams and as, kind of like, a side note, when you’re not even thinking about it or noticing it, it will just be there because you love the same things.
Because l’m worth it!
I’m not going talent people decide who I am, I’m going to decide that for myself.
Men – I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. Gender equality is your issue too.