Where are the women? The women are here.
I still feel like the person who shouldn't be doing this and everyone is acting around me as if I'm a badass all the time. And this still feels like a stretch. I realize this is something that is incredible. I get to do this and I get wonderful teachers to help me and it's amazing.
For so long, I was searching for something to be proud of. But at a certain point, I realized, 'Wait, I'm doing what I want to be doing. I'm not wanting to do it; I'm doing it. ' And that's awesome.
This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight. . . Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.
I call architecture frozen music.
I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
If you want some advice—which I'm sure you don't—you guys should lay off on the magic. Christian still thinks you're moving in on Lissa. " "What?" he asked in mock astonishment. "Doesn't he know my heart belongs to you?" "It does not. And no, he's still worried about it, despite what I've told him. " "You know, I bet if we started making out right now, it would make him feel better. " "If you touch me," I said pleasantly, "I'll provide you with the opportunity to see if you can heal yourself. Then we'd see how badass you really are.
I wanted to be an independent woman, a woman who could pay for her bills, a woman who could run her own life - and I became that woman.
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.
It's a little dangerous to be a badass.
Healthy moms mean healthy families. When my Republican colleagues held a hearing about birth control and refused to include a single woman on the first panel as a witness, I asked, "Where are the women?"
My boyfriend and I are badasses.
When I step foot to my locker and change shoes for training, its like turning on a switch. I become a creature. Not a human. I look to tear apart anyone and everyone in my way to hugeness and I don't care how I do it. I can feel my heart start jumping and my body start saying "beat me into the ground like a red-headed step child. I want punishment" I WANT TO BE A FREAK, A FREAK I TELL YOU!!
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill. ' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.
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.