More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Don’t be so quick to give up your own identity just to fit in. Because, in the long run, just belonging to a scene isn’t enough. To be a diva, you’ve got to cultivate your own strengths and your own personality within it.
Being able to find your fierceness, even in your weakest, most vulnerable moments, is what makes you a diva. Never—you hear me?—neeeeh-verrrrr let anyone see you sweat.
stop being so hard on yourself.” One of my all-time favorite RuPaul quotes sums it up: “What other people think of you is none of your damn business.”
But I’ve learned that real divas are born in those darkest, most private moments, when your inner saboteur is trying to shout you down. That’s when your true strength and grit will be tested. It won’t happen when all eyes are on you. It’ll happen when you’re staring at yourself in the mirror before you leave your house, or your dressing room, or your car. That’s the moment when you choose to burn out or shine bright. That’s when you decide to fall to the negativity or rise to superstardom no matter the circumstance.
Our world is ruled by a not-so-secret, informal organization that has no official name but which I like to call The Penis Club. The only membership requirement: a dick. (To be clear, you just have to have one, you don’t have to be one. Although it’s amazing how often these two things coincide.)
