When you're a parent, you try to compensate with so much love and you're almost afraid to get into the argument, so you let things slide and then you're like, 'Oh, there should've been a boundary in that place probably a while ago,'but I guess I'm only realizing that now.

Drew Barrymore

I am who I am because of the people who influenced me growing up, and many of them were gay. No one has any right to tell anyone what makes a family

Drew Barrymore

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Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

Drew Barrymore

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I think happiness is what makes you pretty.

Drew Barrymore

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I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.

Drew Barrymore

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I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

Drew Barrymore

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If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

Drew Barrymore

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You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

Drew Barrymore

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There are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and help women feel beautiful about who we are inside, which is the only beauty there truly is, is so nice. Let's get down and dirty. Let's be a real girl.

Drew Barrymore

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Happiness is a choice. You have to choose it - and you have to fight for it.

Drew Barrymore

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I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

Drew Barrymore

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I took the stairs and felt like my childhood took the elevator.

Drew Barrymore

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There's something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.

Drew Barrymore

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I guess I do have a childlike sense of fun, and although I still have my dark days, I'm generally an optimistic person. The way things have gone in my life, sure, I could have been a bitter person. But I just find bitter people really un-fun, you know? And who wants to be that person?

Drew Barrymore

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When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.

Drew Barrymore

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Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Drew Barrymore

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I've spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love... I’ve stopped believing in happy endings. I’ve started believing in good days.

Drew Barrymore

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If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him.

Drew Barrymore

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Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.

Drew Barrymore

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Apparently vodka helps flowers last longer when they're dying. But you can put vodka in anything and it'll make it better.

Drew Barrymore

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My favorite thing about being a mom is just what a better person it makes you on a daily basis.

Drew Barrymore

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