Amy Poehler Quotes

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

I'm still me even after all that's happened.

That happened to me, but I'm so much more than that girl that was kidnapped.

It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange story of you and I. The alphabet of my DNA shapes certain words, but the story is not told. I have to tell it myself. What is it that I have to tell myself again and again? That there is always a new beginning, a different end. I can change the story. I am the story. Begin.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions, but nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage were born.

When my father would yell at me, I told myself someday I'd use it in a book.

I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write. By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me.

I feel like I have been able to rewrite my story to some extent. But I feel like there is a lot of work to be done.

The world around me has changed, and I have learned to adapt but not change. But I'm changing into the woman I am meant to be.

My story is just my story, and it's not nearly as traumatic as some.

Someday, I'll write a book about what I've been through.

One day, I will tell my story... where I came from and where I am now and how I remained positive.

I faced a certain amount of violence. It taught me that I had to learn to protect myself - and it made me stronger. It could have made me step backwards with my self-discovery. Instead, it pushed me further.

The scars in my face are the source of my strength.

Growing up I had a lot of really negative energy in my life from people that were in my life, so I know to how to stand up for myself.

Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so

I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.

You can use your story, or your story can use you.

You can reclaim your own narrative.

I just know that right now, we want to be proud. For once. We want to take the struggle and rise above it. We want to frame it, live it, survive it. We want to put it in our mouths and taste it and never forget it, because it makes us strong.

You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past.

I wrote myself back together. I wrote myself toward a stronger version of myself . . . Through writing and feminism, I also found that if I was a little bit brave, another woman might hear me and see me and recognize that none of us are the nothing the world tries to tell us we are.

Even for a girl like me, then, there comes a day when she can stop surviving and start living. To survive, you have to look good or talk good. But to end your story well-- here is the truth-- you have to talk yourself out of it.