Estelle Quotes

I can't stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when I was seven, but I walked off when my eyes began to sting. She said to me, 'You start something and you finish it', and that stuck with me. I'm persistent.

Estelle

• Eyes
• Woman
• My Mother
• Persistent
• Quitter

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• A confident woman is a sexy woman, in my opinion. And I think guys find that to be the same way.

  

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• Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

  

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• Benazir Bhutto was an inspirational leader and an inspirational woman.

  

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• Every woman looks good in a flamenco dress.

  

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• There is a tension in relationships between wanting to return to the womb, but also wanting to be free. Because sometimes the woman's attentions can be overly maternal, and you want to go, 'Ahhhh!'

  

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• I like to make the best of what I have. I'm not a supermodel, clearly. I'm not a makeup artist. I'm a real woman.

  

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• The 1970s 'Wonder Woman' was sort of a kitsch thing. It was a very specific time for that, and it's hard to modernize something like that.

  

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• Honestly, among my acquaintances there is no woman wearing XS.

  

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• The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.

  

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• When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.

  

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• There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

  

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• I can't stand quitters. My mother is a very strong, determined woman. I was peeling onions when I was seven, but I walked off when my eyes began to sting. She said to me, 'You start something and you finish it', and that stuck with me. I'm persistent.

  

  Estelle
  • Eyes
  • Woman
  • My Mother