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“Is this chicken, what I have, or is this fish? I know it's tuna, but it says 'Chicken by the Sea.”
― Jessica Simpson

“Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.”
― Jessica Simpson

“Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?”
― Jessica Simpson

“Sometimes we are all so afraid to be honest with ourselves because we know that honesty will lead to somewhere.” I wrote this ten years ago. “Can fear walk us to something better?”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“Did he repeatedly stab me in the heart, or did I just keep running into the knife he aimed at me?”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“Dumb is just not knowing. 'Ditzy' is having the courage to ask!”
― Jessica Simpson

“There are so many firsts to raising kids, and parents are told to catch them all. But they don’t warn you about the lasts. The last baby onesie. The last time you tie their shoes. The last time they think you have every answer in the world.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“laugh a lot. It burns a lot of calories.”
― Jessica Simpson

“At school my boobs were bigger than all my friends' and I was afraid to show them. Now I feel like they make my outfits look better. They're like an accessory.”
― Jessica Simpson

“It didn’t make me cry, it made me mad. But he was breaking down in front of the world, and, again, I felt responsible. How many times are women made to feel responsible for the actions of men? I know now that”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“Whatever you are going through, the sun will come out.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“All of us are so much more alike than we want to accept.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” It’s a quote from Joseph Campbell, who studied mythology to describe what it takes to be a hero. I probably got it from one of the many, many self-help books I devoured back then, underlining points and dog-earing the pages that seemed to tell me a way out. I repeated that quote to myself for weeks, in the shower, on a red carpet, driving in my car. There was a life waiting for me, I told myself. I owed it to the people in it to be brave.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“The look I was going for was sexy but saved. Come hither but leave room for the Lord.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“That’s the power of faith in action. It’s not about talking and judging. It’s about doing.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“But then I remind myself that life is really just about one moment at a time. To not think about two years from now, but to think about right now. Two years from now will figure itself out.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“How can I be my best if I never fail,
and how can I ever find peace if I never yell.”
― Jessica Simpson, Jessica Simpson - A Public Affair

“Pour your scotch on the rocks
and drink your misery down.
Go home and make love to her
and picture me, picture me.
Yeah, picture me!”
― Jessica Simpson

“My husband, Eric, has a joke he likes to say: “Ask Jessica to sing about Jesus or America, and she’ll be there. Super Bowl, backyard cookout, whatever you got, she’s coming to sing ‘God Bless America.’ ” And he’s right. Growing up in Texas, I sang that song over and over. From Memorial Day parades to Veteran’s Day pancake breakfasts—I was your girl. When I sang it at the East Room of the White House, I finally found out I had been flubbing the lyrics all those years. I was there to kick off the USO holiday tour for troops fighting in Afghanistan. It was the first time they let celebrities in after 9/11, because, well, they were busy. It was surreal to hear President Bush speak, thanking the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for his service, the transportation secretary for keeping the airlines safe. And then he added, “I want to thank Rob Schneider and Jessica Simpson as well.” They asked me to sing “God Bless America,” and I gave it my all. President Bush was in the front row, right next to Laura, and I watched him quietly sing along, his mouth moving along with mine. Something went wrong after we got to the mountains, though. I said, “to the rivers,” just like I always did, and, well, he knew it was “the prairies.” I was so embarrassed that I apologized to him and Mrs. Bush after. “I swear all this time I thought it was rivers!” I said. “That’s okay, Jessica,” he said. “God blessed the rivers, too.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“Hi, I’m Gale Norton,” she said. “Welcome to the White House.” “I’m Jessica,” I said, shaking her hand. I made a stab at small talk. “And what do you do?” “I’m the secretary of the interior,” she said. “Oh my gosh,” I said, waving my arm high to take in the room. “I love what you’ve done with the place. Everything is beautiful.” My dad pinched my arm, and she just walked away. I was trying to be nice and give a compliment, but that’s her Jessica Simpson story. Now I know the secretary of the interior manages federal land and national parks. Believe me, I beat myself up so much over that one that I could ace a test on it. At least I’d made it to the White House again. I couldn’t believe my good fortune.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“I was like a lot of women who get their wish: I loved being a mom, I just didn't love being me.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“Press pause for a second on your life and ask yourself, What is my calling? What makes you feel passionate? If you don’t immediately have an answer, try broadening beyond something specific. My mom’s was specific—fashion—but mine was more broad. I like making people feel good. Whether I am doing that through music, which came naturally to me, or through writing, which is harder on me but brings a different reward, I’m driven by the same impulse. I think sometimes we get so caught up in the vessel of the work rather than what matters: the spirit that fills it.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“It is so easy to notice things about people and tell them. I don't know why people don't just give out compliments every single day.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“I do like the romance of the hard stuff in life.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“I also hope to be your friend. I am going to need you to hold my hand through some memories, and there may be times that I’ll end up holding yours as we confront similar things that scare us. I’ve come to recognize fear when I see it. It may show itself in different ways, but it’s a familiar face, isn’t it? I have a different relationship to fear now. I’ve learned that we grow from walking through it, and a lot of people don’t even know they have that option. You either conquer it, or you let it destroy you. So, let’s do this together.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“She had mailed them a few days before she died, wishing everyone a great future. It was a powerful lesson in creating a legacy by choosing your words with intention. We are on this earth such a short time, cruelly short in Sarah’s case. What message did I want to leave behind?”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“The kids are asleep, and my husband is reading in the other room. So, it’s just you and me. Every night after we put our children to bed, I come down here to the study to write. It’s cold here in Los Angeles, so bedtimes have been creeping later. My daughter Maxwell is six now and my son Ace is five, and they have the kind of energy that”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“I wanted to see who I was, without using another person’s love for me as a measurement of my value.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“Still, I was present. I kept a promise I made to myself a little over a year before to show up in my own life. To feel things, whether they were the result of bad memories, or good ones in the making.”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book

“To get to this point, to talking to you right here in this moment, I had to really feel. And I hadn’t been doing that. Up until a few years ago, I had been a feelings addict. Love, loss—whichever, whatever, as long as it was epic. I just needed enough noise to distract me from the pain I had been avoiding since childhood. The demons of traumatic abuse that refused to let me sleep at night—Tylenol PM at age twelve, red wine and Ambien as a grown, scared woman. Those same demons who perched on my shoulder, and when they saw a man as dark as them, leaned in to my ear to whisper, “Just give him all your light. See if it saves him. . . .”
― Jessica Simpson, Open Book