I really had to figure out who I was and be confident in my own skin. Now I’ve done that, and I’m very happy in a relationship. Ashleigh Murray Read Quote
My longest relationship with my first boyfriend was eight and a half years. We broke up a handful of times over those years, but he was my first love, I was his, and we were each other’s firsts. Ashleigh Murray Read Quote
Society is so quick to encourage women to see each other as competition, but I think it’s important we celebrate and embrace the pieces of our identity we share with others. Ashleigh Murray Read Quote
We are not all the same. If you care that much, if you’re that invested in us as artists and the changes that we’re trying to make and the work that we’re putting out there, then at least give us the same decency and respect to know that I am not Yara Shahidi and never will I be. Ashleigh Murray Read Quote
I grew up saying, ‘I want to be famous,’ but that was just the words that you used. As I got older, I understood that what I really meant was, ‘I want to be successful.’ Ashleigh Murray Read Quote
I know that I’m a role model for a lot of people, and I’d like to be. I know that there are people who probably don’t agree with how I think or how I see myself and my place in this world. That’s OK. Ashleigh Murray Read Quote
I would be remiss not to take advantage of this platform that I have, because I don’t want any other woman or girl feeling like the way that I felt: that I didn’t belong, that I would never succeed in the medium that I’m choosing to pursue because my hair isn’t straight or my skin isn’t light or my eyes aren’t bright. Ashleigh Murray Read Quote
