Christine Quinn Quotes

If you let someone else write the rules and follow someone else's agenda, the life you end up with is not going to be the one you want.

What do you value? What do you want? You need to get clear on what is most important to you in life so that you can tailor your goals, your work, and your relationship to protect those values.

You can't make everybody happy all of the time, so you might as well focus on making yourself happy.

All you can do is be fully, unapologetically yourself- and therein lies your power.

You can remake your life to suit you by doing more than you're told, refusing to be a victim, becoming radically yourself, aiming high, and never being afraid to fuck some shit up.

No one else is your competition. We’ve all got the same goal: We all just want to stand a little taller, be a little more confident, and feel at home in our own skin. So we need to be lifting each other up, rather than cutting each other down.

Let’s get one thing straight right up front: If you’re going to call me a bitch, I’m going to take it as a compliment. “Bitch” is just a name people give you when they don’t know what to do with you, or you make them uncomfortable, or you push them outside of their comfort zone. It’s a word men call strong, assertive women who threaten them, but when women use it, it should be a power word. It’s time to change the narrative.

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard “You’re a mom; why are you dressing like that?” What, now that I’ve given birth it’s illegal for me to wear a minidress? I have to shrivel up and move to sweatsuit town? (Though, for the record, I can rock the shit out of a sweatsuit—and you can, too, if that’s your speed.) The point is, I refuse to change my style just because I’m a mother now, and I double refuse to allow people to shame me for the way I dress.

No matter what someone’s body looks like, what size they are, or the clothes they choose to wear to show that body off—or hide it, if that’s their preference or according to their beliefs—it is, clap along with me now: None. Of. Your. Fucking. Business. Don’t go assuming that because someone looks a certain way that you know everything about them.

That is the core theme of this book: To be a successful professional in business, and a happy person in life, you can’t adhere to what other people think is correct or even appropriate. You can’t try to be who other people want you to be. All you can do is be fully, unapologetically yourself—and therein lies your power.

I was looking all cute, dressed like a skank because I loved it and because I knew no one would give a shit since school had bigger issues than a coochie hanging out of a skirt.

No one thinks twice if you date a fugly guy who has a great sense of humor! So if keys to the Benz is your love language, do you!

I'm not even sure what would happen if one of us mated with a werekin or a Fae or something, which set of DNA would win out. Who knows? I'm sure Nana would say we'd spontaneously combust." Quinn didn't seem to find that amusing. He scowled. "I'm sure nothing so drastic would happen. I'll bet it would be perfectly safe for both of u—for both parties.