Everybody has an inferiority complex when they step into a room … When I was young I had so many inferiority complexes. I had an inferiority complex because I didn’t got university … because I didn’t train. Then it gets tiring. And you get bored of it … “Fuck it” is my guiding philosophy. — Helena Bonham Carter

As a girl, I was not sure how to be. I said things I did not mean. I said things I did not understand … As a woman, I still have moments of being outside of myself. But as a woman, I know now to ask what they mean, to try to understand, to not only be the help I need, but to ask for it as well. – Cleo Wade (via her Instagram)

People think you have to know what you want to do with your life by the time you’re 19. Wrong! Or that you have to be in a significant relationship in your twenties. Wrong! It’s all just nonsense. — Tilda Swinton

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. — Joan Didion

The hardest thing about writing is writing. — Nora Ephron

I’ve always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner. — Michael Caine

You must not quote to me what I once said. I am wiser now. — Romy Schneider

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream. — Nora Ephron